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Pre-requisites

Experience of programming with Visual Basic 5 or 6 | Some familiarity with Web concepts such as HTML, Active Server Pages (ASP), and SOAP | Familiarity with ADO and SQL | Awareness of COM

Course Benefits

VB.NET is set to revolutionize the way we build Web applications. At last you can easily create robust, well-structured, easily maintainable Web applications that will run on any browser on any platform, using techniques you already know.

This course offers experienced VB users a five day immersion in the product, which introduces the key concepts and answers the questions about the capabilities of the new platform, implications for existing applications, deployment, and many other issues. We will also show you how to use your existing skills with the powerful features of the .NET platform to build Web-based applications.

You Will Learn How To:

Understand the reasons for moving to the .NET platform | Explore the major new features of the VB.NET language | Create Web Services | Compare ADO.NET to classic ADO | Use Web Forms and Windows Forms | Integrate .NET and COM components | Understand Managed Execution | Build Web Applications using ASP.NET with VB.NET | Understand the ASP.NET processing model | Use HTML Controls and Web Controls | Bind Data to Web Forms | Manage State and Session in a Web Application | Create Secure Web Sites | Trace and debug Web Applications

Course Content

VB.NET Grand Tour
The .NET Vision | Visual Studio.Net Architecture |ASP.NET | The New IDE | Web Services | Windows Forms and Web Forms | Console Applications | Class Libraries | ADO.NET

Language Features
Creating .NET Projects | NameSpaces | Data Structure and LanguageHighlights | Classes and Inheritance | Structured Error Handling |Exploring the Base Class Library | Compatibility with VB6 |The .NET Type System
Threads |C#

Web Services
Benefits of Web Services |SOAP, HTTP and XML |Creating Web Services |Testing Web Services |Discovery | Generating Web Service Proxies |Using Web Services

Windows Forms
Benefits of Windows Forms |Windows Forms compared to the classic VB 'Ruby' Forms model|.NET Events
Visual Inheritance |Code-free re-sizing |Using ActiveX Controls

ADO.NET
Benefits of ADO.NET |ADO.NET compared to classic ADO |DataSets |Managed Providers | Data Binding, DataSets and XML |Typed DataSets

How .NET Works
The Common LanguageImplementation |Assemblies |Metadata and IntermediateLanguage
Garbage Collection |Versioning and Side-by-Side Execution |The End to DLL Hell |Managed Execution |COM InterOp

Web Applications
Web Forms and ASP.NET |Creating Web Forms |Server controls and HTML controls | Web Form Events |Using ASP.NET objects |Web Forms and Data Access |State Management

Introducing ASP.NET
Web Applications |How Web development differs from Desktop Development | ASP.NET Processing Model |Server-side Controls and Events | Web Application Clients | ASP.NET Features | ASP.NET compared to 'classic' ASP

Programming with HTML Controls
Web Forms and ASPX files | HTML elements and controls | "runat=server" | View State | Placing code in ASPX files | Using HTML Controls in Visual Studio.NET

Using Web Controls
Web Control Concepts | Intrinsic Web Controls |Dynamic Output |How Event Processing Works |AutoPostback | Validation Controls |Comparing Web Controls to HTML Controls

Working with Data
Overview of ADO.NET |Role of DataReaders and DataSets in Web Applications | DataViews |Data Binding |DataGrid Control | Binding Templates | Repeater Control | Binding to XML |Processing User Input to Update Databases

Web Application Architecture
How ASP.NET Works | IIS |The HTTP Runtime |Modules and Handlers | Code-behind functionality |Configuration files |Site administration | No-touch Deployment |Page Caching | Tracing (Page and Application)

Designing Web Applications
Controlling Application Navigation |Using FrameSets |Using Client-side Scripting |Working with Global asax, State Management (Application, Session, View, Cache) |Session Management, Creating Scaleable Web Applications

Web Application Security
Authentication -(Windows, Passport, Form) |Creating a Login Form |Authorization | Use Roles

• Using DataReaders
• Exploring the DataSet object model
• Data binding with the DataTable object
• Performing updates with the DataSet object
• Working with XML Documents
• Exploring the Visual Studio .NET visual data tools
• Dealing with concurrency issues
• Working with stored procedures
• Using transactions
• Using Typed DataSets

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