Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students must have:


An understanding of the problem-solving techniques that apply to software development, including the following principles of software development:

• Modern software development models
• Typical phases of a software development lifecycle
• Concepts of event-driven programming
• Concepts of object-oriented programming
• Creating use-case diagrams
• Designing and building a user interface
• Developing a structured application

A basic understanding of the following scripting techniques and some hands-on experience writing scripts:

• Web scripting techniques
• Macro scripting techniques
• Windows scripting techniques

A general understanding of the purpose, function, and features of following .NET Framework topics:

• Common Language Runtime
• .NET Framework class library
• Common Type System
• Component interoperation
• Cross-language interoperability
• Assemblies in the Common Language Runtime
• Application domains
• Runtime hosts supported by the .NET Framework

Experience using Visual Studio 2008 in the following task areas:

• Declaring and initializing typed variables using the Camel case naming convention
• Using arithmetic, relational, and logical operators in code statements
• Using branching statements to control code execution
• Using looping statements to iterate through collections or repeat steps until a specified condition is met
• Creating classes and methods to establish the basic structure of an application
• Using methods and events to implement the programming logic of an application
• Identifying syntax and logic errors
• Accessing and managing data from a data source

Experience in object oriented design and development as follows:

• Creating and accessing classes and class properties
• Creating and accessing methods and overloaded methods
• Implementing inheritance, base classes, and abstract classes
• Declaring, raising, and handling events
• Responding to and throwing exceptions
• Implementing interfaces and polymorphism
• Implementing shared and static members
• Implementing generics
• Creating components and class libraries

Experience in N-Tier application design and development as follows:

• Managing a software development process
• Controlling input at the user interface level in Windows client and Web applications
• Debugging, tracing, and profiling .NET applications
• Monitoring and logging .NET applications
• Implementing basic testing best practices
• Performing basic data access tasks with LINQ

-Basics of LINQ to XML
-Basics of LINQ to Entities
-Basics of LINQ to SQL
Implementing basic security best practices in .NET Applications

• Basics of Code Access Security
• Basics of Role-Based Security
• Basics of Cryptography Services
• Implementing basic service calls

-Basics of creating and consuming XML Web Services
-Basics of creating and consuming WCF Services

• Using .NET Configuration Files
• Deploying .NET Framework Applications using ClickOnce and the MS Installer

Data access experience in Windows client application development as follows:

• Connect to a data source
• Implement data binding
• Implement data validation at the UI layer

Data access experience in Web application development as follows:

• Connect to a data source
• Implement dynamic data
• Implement data validation at the UI layer