IT Course Outline

.NET Framework Foundations Using C#

Prerequisites : Working knowledge of C# and an understanding of building simple GUIs with Windows Forms.

Course Length: 5 days

Course Description

Microsoft .NET is an advance in programming technology that greatly simplifies application development, both for traditional, proprietary applications and for the emerging paradigm of Web-based services. .NET is a complete restructuring of Microsoft’s whole system infrastructure and represents a major learning challenge for programmers developing applications on Microsoft platforms. Part of .NET is a major new object-oriented programming language, C#. But learning the new programming language is only part of the challenge. The much greater challenge is learning the .NET Framework and all its capabilities.

Course Topics

What is Microsoft .NET? What is Microsoft .NET? Common Language Runtime Attribute-Based Programming Interface-Based Programming Metadata Common Type System Framework Class Library Managed Code Assemblies and Deployment .NET Programming Model Memory Management and Garbage Collection Threading and Synchronization Asynchronous Delegates .NET 2.0 BackgroundWorker Application Domains Marshal by Value Marshal by Reference .NET Remoting Class Libraries Components in .NET Building Class Libraries at the Command Line Class Libraries Using Visual Studio 2005 Using References .NET Security Authentication and Authorization Configuring Security Code Access Security Code Groups Evidence Permissions Role-Based Security Principals and Identities Assemblies, Deployment and Configuration Assemblies Private Assembly Deployment Shared Assembly Deployment Configuration Overview Programmatic Access to Configuration Using SDK Tools for Signing and Deployment Application Settings with .NET 2.0 Interoperating with COM and Win32 .NET Client Calling a COM Server PInvoke Metadata and Reflection Metadata Reflection Late Binding Database Programming Using ADO.NET ADO.NET Overview .NET Data Providers Using DataReaders Using DataSets .NET 2.0 Data Binding Interacting with XML Data I/O and Serialization Directories Files Serialization Attributes