Visual Basic .NET Windows Applications
This series covers creating forms, handling exceptions, developing .NET components and assemblies, and consuming and manipulating data. It also covers using web services, managing globalization, working with legacy code, implementing user assistance and accessibility, and working with components and controls. The series also details topics such as application testing, debugging, deployment, maintenance, support, and configuration.
This series is for anyone who wants to learn more about developing applications using .NET. This online course contains 5 lessons and 1 practice exams and should take approximately 14 hours to complete.
Windows Forms and Controls
This course provides an overview of Windows forms and controls and teaches you how to create a form and edit its properties within the form's code and using the Properties window, differentiate the two types of event handling (overriding protected methods and attaching delegates), describe the use of the Draw and Fill methods, utilize the z-order to properly sort overlapping controls, configure the TabIndex and TabStop values in order to determine the order in which controls will gain focus, and explain how to add controls to container objects using the Forms Designer and through programmatic code.
Exceptions, Components, and Assemblies
This course provides an overview of exception handling, NET components and assemblies, Web services, and working with legacy code and teaches you how to explain the use of Try, Catch, and Finally code blocks., list the four techniques of user input validation: control choice, control state, keystroke validation, and full control validation., create a component extending from the Component, Control, and UserControl classes, create single-file, multifile, static, dynamic, private, shared, satellite, and resource-only .NET assemblies, use and create Web services (SOAP, Disco, UDDI, and WSDL), and convert ActiveX controls to use within .NET applications.
Binding and Manipulating Data
This course provides an overview of binding, consuming, and manipulating data and teaches you how to differentiate simple and complex data binding, list common members of the CurrencyManager class, filter data within the client application and at the server, distinguish ad-hoc queries from stored procedures, construct basic SQL statements using the T-SQL dialect supported by Microsoft SQL Server, use the DataSet object to make data available within your application, and explain how to use the Framework Class Library to view a DataSet as XML.
Globalization and User Services
This course provides an overview of globalization, user assistance, accessibility, and printing and teaches you how to obtain a listing of available cultures from an application, perform application localization at runtime, explain the purpose of user assistance and accessibility planning within your application, create and consume an HTML Help file project, configure the common PageSettings and PrinterSettings properties, use the four standard Windows printing components, and (PageSetupDialog, PrintPreviewDialog, PrintPreviewControl, and PrintDialog).
Testing, Deploying, and Maintaining Windows Applications
This course provides an overview of testing, debugging, deploying, maintaining, supporting, and configuring a Windows application and teaches you how to explain the use of the bottom-up, top-down, umbrella, and regression testing methods, configure your application for conditional compilation, differentiate the four primary types of deployment templates available within Visual Studio .NET, use various editors to customize a Setup project, explain the use of the Start, Kill, and CloseMainWindow methods to start and stop processes, and configure code groups to manage user permissions.
Practice Exam
This course provides two practice exams for the Microsoft 70-306 certification exam.