The Visual Basic 2010 Programming Language

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Microsoft's .NET Framework presents developers with unprecedented opportunities. From web applications to desktop and mobile platform applications - all can be built with equal ease, using substantially the same skill-set. But to make the most of this potential, developers must have a thorough grasp of core language skills and OO programming concepts.

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  • IT
  • Programming
  • Visual Basic training
  • Visual Basic
  • Basic
  • Basic IT training
  • Basic IT

Course programme

Introduction to .NET & Visual Basic

  • The .NET Framework; The Common Language Runtime; The Common Type System
  • Visual Basic Features; Introduction to namespaces and assemblies

Language Fundamentals

  • Procedures and statements; Data types; Declaring variables; Assignments
  • Conversion; Arithmetic and other operators
  • Control constructs; by value, by reference, named and optional parameters

Types I

  • Type concepts; Classes; Reference types
  • Fields, properties and methods; Visual Basic 2010 Auto-implemented properties
  • Accessibility modifiers; Construction and chaining
  • Instance members; Keyword 'Me'
  • The 'nothing' reference

Types II

  • Structures; Value types
  • Object Initialisers
  • Keyword Shared; Const & ReadOnly
  • The Singleton & Factory patterns
  • Partial classes
  • Enumerated types

Exception HandlingI

  • Errors vs. Exceptions; The 'try' block; The 'catch' block; The 'finally' block; Using 'throw'
  • Creating your own exceptions

Inheritance & Polymorphism

  • Concept of inheritance; Substitutability; Extending a simple class
  • Overridable, 'Overrides' and 'NotInheritable' modifiers
  • Polymorphism
  • Upcasting and safe downcasting

Abstract Classes & Interfaces

  • Abstract classes; Abstract methods and properties
  • Polymorphism with interfaces; Multiple interfaces

Generics & Collections

  • Arrays vs Collections; Array syntax
  • Generic concepts; Using Generic collection classes; List(of T)
  • Generic interfaces; IComparable(of T), IComparer(of T) & sorting
  • Default Properties
  • Using generic methods
  • Co & Contra-variance
  • Constraints; Nullable types
  • Boxing / UnBoxing issues

Delegates & Events

  • Delegates explained; Working with delegates; Creating your own delegate types; Event handling delegates; Evolution of syntax for creating delegate instances; Key generic delegates of the FCL; Lambda expressions

Getting Started with LINQ

  • The various Visual Basic language features that act as LINQ enablers
  • The Func Delegate family including Func(of T, TResult)>
  • The LINQ API and query pattern
  • LINQ to Objects

More LINQ

  • Grouping; Joins; LINQ to XML
  • LINQ to SQL
  • Overview of LINQ to Entities

The Way Ahead

  • Review
  • Follow-on courses

Appendix Module: Namespaces & Assemblies

  • Namespaces; The 'using' statement for namespaces; Assemblies
  • DLLs at compile time and run Time; The Global Assembly Cache (GAC)
  • Versioning using public/private key cryptography

Appendix Module: Operator Overloading

  • Why operator overloading is useful; When to overload
  • Implicit conversions; explicit conversions

Appendix Module: Visual Basic & .NET timeline

  • Which versions/functionality came when; Visual Basic syntax changes by version

Appendix Module: Managing Resources

  • Garbage collection and its impacts; Finalizers; The 'Dispose' pattern; IDisposable
  • The Using statement

Appendix Module: Working with Text

  • Class String; Class StringBuilder; Formatting Strings; Regular Expression

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