Course Overview
As applications grow more sophisticated, programmers need tools to more easily meet user demands. Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 simplify data access, streamline code and improve user experiences. In this course, you gain the skills to enhance applications using new .NET features, including ASP.NET 4, Entity Framework and Silverlight.
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Audience
Experienced .NET developers who would like to enhance applications with .NET 4 new features. Experience with C# or Visual Basic programming at the level of the Course "Programming with .NET Introduction", is assumed. Knowledge of ASP.NET Web development is helpful.
Skills Gained
You Will Learn How To
- Enhance .NET applications with new features of .NET 4
- Write more expressive, dynamic code using C# and Visual Basic extensions, LINQ and PLINQ
- Automate access to relational and XML data using Entity Framework and LINQ to XML
- Improve Web Services using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), JSON and REST
- Take advantage of new ASP.NET 4 features, including dynamic data, Ajax, jQuery and routing
- Integrate Silverlight into ASP.NET applications
Course Outline
In this course, you gain hands-on experience applying .NET 4 new features. Exercises include:
- Enhancing ASP.NET 2 Web applications using new features of .NET 4
- Programming LINQ to Object queries
- Mapping object and relational data using Entity Framework and the Visual Studio ORM designer
- Creating and accessing REST services with WCF
- Incorporating Ajax and jQuery for responsive Web user interfaces
- Building WCF-integrated Silverlight applications
Introducing .NET 4
.NET 4 architectural overview
- History of the .NET framework
- Tiers and technologies
- Considering application architecture from data to the user interface
Exploring .NET 4 technologies
- LINQ
- Entity Framework
- WCF
- Ajax
- jQuery
- Silverlight
Programming with New C# and VB Language Features
Applying C# and VB extensions
- Auto-implemented properties
- Inferred types
- Anonymous functions
- Lambda expressions
- Anonymous types
- Object initialisers
- Extension and partial methods
- Dynamic types
- Optional arguments
Extracting and manipulating data with LINQ
- Selecting data with LINQ expressions
- Sorting and filtering objects
- Aggregating data within collections
- Building LINQ queries using lambda expressions
- Employing the new language features with LINQ
Exploiting parallel programming and multitasking
- Applying task parallelism in loops
- Executing code in parallel on multiple CPUs with PLINQ
Accessing Data with Entity Framework (EF)
Mapping objects to relational data
- Comparing traditional data access techniques to ORM tools and technologies
- Mapping tables to objects with the EF Designer
- Automatically generating entity classes
- Adding behaviours and properties to entities using partial classes
Replacing ADO.NET code with LINQ to Entities
- Querying relational databases
- Inserting, updating and deleting data using the DataContext class
- Reading and writing XML easily using LINQ to XML
Creating REST Data Services with WCF
Working with WCF new features
- Integrating EF entities within a distributed application
- Optimising data transfer with JSON
- Creating WCF Data services without configuration
Accessing REST-based services via HTTP
- Invoking services from ASP.NET and Silverlight applications
- Calling services asynchronously
- De-serialising JSON data at the client
Enhancing Web User Experiences with ASP.NET 4 New Features
Automating data access
- Data binding using EntityDataSource
- Manipulating WCF service data with LINQ and ObjectDataSource
- Generating Dynamic Data Entities Web Sites
- Integrating Dynamic Data controls with ASP.NET pages
Making Web applications more responsive
- Incorporating Ajax extensions into existing Web pages
- Creating sophisticated user interfaces with the Ajax Control Toolkit
- Calling WCF services from Ajax
- Simplifying JavaScript coding with jQuery
- Optimising URLs with routing
Integrating Silverlight with ASP.NET
Creating a Silverlight application with Visual Studio 2010
- Silverlight 4 features
- Embedding a Silverlight application into a Web page
- Deploying Silverlight applications
Designing Silverlight applications
- Programming in XAML
- Handling events with C# or VB in code-behind files
- Implementing sophisticated layouts with Grids, StackPanels and Silverlight controls
- Enhancing visual appearance with styles, templates and animations
Extending Silverlight with WCF
- Creating a WCF Service for Silverlight
- Calling a WCF Service from a Silverlight application
