Visual Basic .NET Windows Applications - Online Course

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.

Lesson 1: Windows Forms and Controls (2.0) hours

Windows Forms and Controls 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. This course provides an overview of Windows forms and controls. Topics include The .NET development environment, Windows Form Designer, Using classes, Event handling, The System.Drawing namespace, Control properties, Common form controls, Dialog boxes, menus, and display bars, and Adding controls.

Lesson 2: Exceptions, Components, and Assemblies (3.0) hours

Exceptions, Components, and Assemblies 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. This course provides an overview of exception handling, .NET components and assemblies, Web services, and working with legacy code. Topics include Exceptions overview, Handling and managing exceptions, Validating user input, Component and control class derived components, UserControl class derived components, Creating assemblies, Understanding Web services, Using Web services, Creating Web services, Using ActiveX controls, Using COM components, and Using platform invoke.

Lesson 3: Binding and Manipulating Data (2.0) hours

Binding and Manipulating Data 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. This course provides an overview of binding, consuming, and manipulating data. Topics include Data Binding, Filtering and Transforming Data, Manipulating Data, Querying the SQL Server, Data Access, The ADO.NET Model, and XML Data.

Lesson 4: Globalization and User Services (2.0) hours

Globalization and User Services 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). This course provides an overview of globalization, user assistance, accessibility, and printing. Topics include Overview of Localization, User Interface Localization, Character Encodings, .NET User Assistance, Implementing .NET User Assistance, Accessibility, The PrintDocument Component, and Using Print Controls.

Lesson 5: Testing, Deploying, and Maintaining Windows Applications (3.0) hours

Testing, Deploying, and Maintaining Windows Applications 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. This course provides an overview of testing, debugging, deploying, maintaining, supporting, and configuring a Windows application. Topics include Application testing, Debugging, Deploying applications, Customizing Setup files, Shared assemblies, Deployment considerations, The Process class, Windows Event logs, Monitoring performance, Configuring dynamic applications, Configuring security, and Configuring authorization.

1 Practice Exam

This course provides two practice exams for the Microsoft 70-306 certification exam.