Training in Visual Studio 2013

Module 1: Introduction to Visual Studio 2013

• .NET and Visual Studio 2013concepts
• .NET projects and files
• The Framework Class Library
• Common Language Runtime
• A tour of Visual Studio 2013

Module 1: C# Language Fundamentals

• Why C# and not VB
• Data types
• Value and reference types
• Branching and looping statements
• Delegates and event handling

Module 3: Create Reusable Objects

• Define classes
• Create and use objects in client code
• Create classes that use inheritance
• Define interfaces and use polymorphism
• Create shared members
• Create class events and handle them from a client application

Module 4: Newer Language Features

• Anonymous types
• Object and collection initialisers
• Partial classes and methods
• Lambda expressions
• Extension methods

Module 5: Exception Handling

• What is exception handling
• Using try, catch and finally styatements
• Creating custom exceptions
• Best practices

Module 6: Scalable Application Development

• The advantages of multi-tier applications
• Creating presentation, business and data access tiers
• Passing data between tiers

Module 7: Accessing Databases with ADO.NET

• List the benefits of ADO.NET
• Create applications by using ADO.NET
• List the main ADO.NET objects and their functions
• Use Visual Studio NET data designers and data binding
• Explain how XML integrates with ADO.NET

Module 8: Creating the Business Tier

• Analysis and design
• Creating business classes
• Creating classe relationships
• Using collections to hold objects

Module 9: Windows Presentation Layer Applications

• Why use windows forms
• Structure of windows forms
• Windows forms class hierarchy
• Using windows forms
• Using controls
• New controls in Visual Studio 2012
• Click-once deployment

Module 10: Web Presentation Layer Applications

• Creating web forms applications
• Understanding the page life cycle
• Adding server controls
• Page and control events
• Binding controls to data

Module 11: Creating Distributed Services

• What are distributed services
• The architecture of distributed services
• Call an XML Web service directly from a browser by using Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
• Create a Web reference proxy for an XML Web service Web method and call the method from a Web Form
• Use the templates in Visual Studio NET to create an XML Web service

Module 12: Versioning and Deployment

• What are assemblies
• Private and shared assemblies
• The Global Assembly Cache (GAC)
• The ways of deploying windows and web applications
• Using setup projects

Module 13: Create Rich Client Applications with WPF

• Creating an application using WPF
• Using XAML to create the user interface
• Handling control events
• Binding to data to controls

Module 14: Accessing Data With LINQ

• Why use LINQ
• Querying data directly from C#
• How to write LINQ queries
• LINQ to objects
• LINQ to SQL
• LINQ to XML