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In this course, you'll see the process of creating an end-to-end Visual C# 2005 application starting with an introduction to the .NET Framework and concluding with the running complete application. Gain insight into a variety of topics focusing on the major areas of application development on the .NET Framework. The application will include coverage of Windows applications, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Web Services, Windows Services, COM Interop, and more.

Course includes 18+ hours of total training time...

• 6 modules of training
• Over 9 hours of media run time
• Step-by-step hands-on-labs
• Sample code

Exploring Visual C# 2005

• What is .NET, Anyway?
• .NET Framework Components
• .NET Languages
• Applications You Can Build
• Create a Console Project in Visual Studio 2005
• Option Strict
• Intellisense
• Start Debugging
• Add A Reference
• Single Step from Visual Basic to C#
• Imports/Using Statements
• Inserting Code Snippets
• How Do I Distribute This App?

• Looking at System Services
• What's in the BCL?
• A Note About Namespaces
• System Namespace
• System.Collections
• System.Data
• System.NET
• System.Security
• System.Web.UI.WebControls
• System.Windows.Forms

• String Class
• StringBuilder Class
• FileVersionInfo Class
• FileSystemWatcher Class
• Common Dialog Demo
• Network Event Demo
• New Classes in Framework 2.0
• My Namespace Simplifies
• Static Classes
• Dynamic Classes

• Using Serialization
• .NET Framework/Serialization
• Take Advantage of Formatter Classes
• Serialization/Deserialization
• Where is the Data Going?
• Why Message Queuing?
• Message Queuing Terminology
• Programming Basics
• Send Customer via MSMQ
• Retrieve Customer from MSMQ

• What is ADO.NET?
• ADO.NET Architecture
• DataTable Object
• Filling a DataTable Manually
• Setting Up Connections
• Commands
• Reading Data with DataReader
• Working With Data
• Connecting to a Data Source
• Getting Data into a DataSet
• Viewing Data while Debugging
• Inserting Data
• Insert Data Using Stored Procedure
• New Features in ADO.NET

• Steps for Building Windows Services
• View Current Running Services
• Debugging Your Service
• Create a Windows Service
• Uninstall the Windows Service

• Why Windows Forms?
• Visual Inheritance
• Forms in Visual Studio
• Some Windows Forms Controls
• Create a Base Form
• Create an Inherited Form
• Anchoring/Docking
• Creating an MDI Application
• Display Forms Programmatically
• Examine Event Handler code
• Add Code to the Base Form
• BackgroundWorker Component
• New Controls in Visual Studio 2005
• ClickOnce Deployment

• What's Good About Classic ASP?
• What's Bad About Classic ASP?
• Introducing ASP.NET
• Designing Web Pages
• Separation of UI and Code
• Create a New Web Application
• Add Controls to a Web Page
• Run the Web Page
• View Source of Web Page
• Server Controls
• Web Controls

• Why Use COM in a .NET World?
• COM and the CLR
• Bi-Directional COM Interop
• Create an ActiveX DLL
• Call ComDemo From Excel
• Call ComDemo from Visual Studio 2005
• Object Lifetime
• Set Up Reg-Free COM

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Ken Getz is a nationally renowned speaker and best-selling author who specializes in programming with Visual C# and Visual Basic. He has been working for more than 10 years, and is the author and presenter of some of most popular courses. Ken is also a senior consultant with MCW Technologies and the author or co-author of several best-selling books including Access 2002 Developer's Handbooks (with Paul Litwin and Mike Gunderloy (Sybex)), Access Cookbook (with Andy Baron and Paul Litwin (O'Reilly)), VBA Developer's Handbook (with Mike Gilbert (Sybex)), and ASP.NET Developer's JumpStart (with Paul D. Sheriff (Addison-Wesley)). Since the inception of the program, Ken has been selected each year as a Microsoft Support MVP and is a member of the INETA speaker's bureau, traveling to speak at .NET user groups throughout the country. Ken is a frequent speaker at technical conferences, including Microsoft's Tech-Ed, as well as VSLive and DevConnections. Ken is also a technical editor for Advisor Guide to Microsoft Access and Advisor Guide to Microsoft Visual Basic and is a columnist for both CoDe Magazine and MSDN Magazine.

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