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Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET) 2008: Programming

Course Overview

Visual Basic 2008 (also known as Visual Basic 9) enables programmers to effectively exploit the .NET runtime environment. This course provides the knowledge and techniques needed to build distributed Visual Basic applications. You develop the skills required to take advantage of a combination of component- and object-oriented syntax in VB to achieve increased reusability.

This Microsoft training course will help you stay competitive, sharpen your skills and could enhance your Microsoft career prospects.

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Audience

Anyone interested in programming in Visual Basic 2008. Familiarity with a modern programming language such as Visual Basic (any version), C#, Java or C++ is assumed. The Course, "Programming with .NET Introduction", provides the appropriate introduction.

Skills Gained

You Will Learn How To

Build multitier .NET applications in Visual Basic from reusable software components
Design object-oriented components with inheritance and polymorphism
Exploit advanced language features, including interfaces, generics and exceptions
Build middle-tier components that access data with ADO.NET and LINQ
Design and code Windows and Web user interfaces
Deploy applications via the Internet with ClickOnce

Hands-on Training

You work with advanced VB 2008 functions and features to gain in-depth hands-on experience. Exercises include:

Designing object-oriented software in VB
Leveraging the RAD tools in Visual Basic 2008
Building a multitier application that accesses data with ADO.NET and LINQ
Creating data-driven Web and Windows UIs
Coding UI-independent data access components
Exploiting OO features of Visual Basic: encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism
Deploying Windows and Web applications with Visual Studio 2008

Course Outline

Developing Multitier Applications

Dividing logical layers into multiple components Reusing components with different UIs Persisting component data into databases

The .NET Framework

Common Language Runtime (CLR)

CLR architecture and services
Compiling VB code into Intermediate Language

Framework Class Library (FCL)

Windows and Web Forms and controls
File I/O
Regular Expressions
Data access with ADO.NET
Heterogenous and generic collections

Key Visual Basic Advantages

User interface design

Web and Windows Forms and controls
Automating data-driven application construction
Leveraging data binding with binding sources
Web Forms with ASP.NET
Validating Web Forms declaratively

VB productivity enhancements

Documenting with XML code comments
Edit and continue debugging
Code snippets
Debugger visualisation
My namespace characteristics
Integrated unit testing

VB language enhancements

Type inference and anonymous types
XML literals

Object-Oriented Programming

Encapsulation

Designing classes with the Class Designer
Protecting private data with properties
Comparing constructors and object initialisers
Creating shared, overloaded and extension methods

Inheritance

Implementing inheritance hierarchies
Eliminating code duplication
Overriding base class methods
Accessing protected base class data

Polymorphism

Types of polymorphism
Interface-based programming
Supporting sorting with IComparable
Creating MustInherit base classes

Exceptions and Events

Designing and consuming events

Responding to UI control interaction
Creating custom business object events
Handling events dynamically and statically
Applying WithEvents and Handles
The AddressOf operator

Structured exception handling

Catching and deciphering exception messages
Throwing exceptions in business objects
Cleaning up resources with Finally blocks
Automating cleanup with Using blocks

Data Manipulation with ADO.NET and LINQ

The ADO.NET model

Working with SQL Server
Connected vs. disconnected approaches
The System.Data namespace

Programming ADO.NET objects

Coding connections, commands and datareaders
Executing parameterised queries from VB
Maximising performance with stored procedures
Maintaining data consistency with transactions

Programming Language Integrated Query (LINQ)

Constructing LINQ expressions
Employing the standard query operators: Where, OrderBy, Select
Applying the LINQ to SQL object relational mapper
Filtering and generating XML with LINQ to XML

Deploying Visual Basic Applications

Applying .NET configuration and settings
Preparing the release build
Comparing XCopy and Setup projects
Publishing Windows and Web applications

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