Programming the Microsoft .NET Framework with Visual Basic.NET

Aims and Objectives
List the major elements of the .NET framework and explain how they fit into the .NET platform.
Explain the main concepts behind the common language runtime and use the features of the .NET framework to create a simple application.
Create and use components in Windows forms-based and ASP.NET-based applications.
Use the deployment and versioning features of the .NET framework common language runtime to deploy multiple versions of a component.
Create, use and extend types by understanding the common type system architecture.
Create classes and interfaces that are functionally efficient and appropriate for given programming scenarios.
Use the .NET Framework class library to efficiently create and manage strings, arrays, collections and enumerators.
Use delegates and events to make an event-sender object signal the occurrence of an action to an event-receiver object.
Describe and control how memory and other resources are managed in the .NET Framework.
Read from and write to data streams and files.
Use the basic request/response model to send and receive data over the internet.
Serialise and de-serialise an object graph.
Create distributed applications by means of Web Service and Object Remoting.

Target Audiences
This course is for application developers.

Prerequisites
Delegates should be proficient in the Visual Basic programming language and have been exposed to Visual Basic.NET. Delegates can meet this prerequisite by taking course 2373.
Microsoft Visual Basic.NET for Visual Basic developers.

Course Content
Module 1: OVERVIEW OF THE MICROSOFT .NET FRAMEWORK
Module 2: INTRODUCTION TO A MANAGED EXECUTION ENVIRONMENT
Module 3: WORKING WITH COMPONENTS
Module 4: DEPLOYMENT AND VERSIONING
Module 5: COMMON TYPE SYSTEM
Module 6: WORKING WITH TYPES, STRINGS, ARRAYS AND COLLECTIONS.
Module 7: DELEGATES AND EVENTS
Module 8: MEMORY AND RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
Module 9: DATA STREAMS AND FILES
Module 10: INTERNET ACCESS
Module 11: SERIALIZATION
Module 12: REMOTING AND WEB SERVICES