.NET Programming Fundamentals

Building applications with Visual Studio

• Managing projects with Solution Explorer
• Setting project properties and adding references
• Adding files, folders and code
• Compiling, debugging and testing programs

Coding object-oriented applications

• Dividing code into classes
• Adding fields, methods properties, events and constructors to classes
• Defining scope and visibility

VB and C# Language Syntax

Working with data types and conversions

• Strings
• Dates and time
• Integers
• Real numbers
• Booleans
• Performing calculations with mathematical operators
• Converting between data types

Controlling program execution

• IF statements
• CASE (switch) statements
• For...Next loops
• Do-While...loops

Handling errors

• Throwing exceptions
• Try...Catch...Finally error handling
• Using the debugger

Automating testing with Visual Studio

• Creating Visual Studio test projects
• Writing unit tests
• Testing classes, properties, method and exceptions
• Stepping through code with the debugger

Crafting Windows Applications

Windows application basics

• Creating forms and controls
• Navigating with menus
• Automating code with the Toolbox and Properties window

Event-driven programming

• Handling events from the user interface
• Declaring and raising events
• Displaying dialog forms

Designing Object-Oriented Applications

Separating application responsibilities into classes

• Single responsibility principle
• Inheriting a base class
• Overriding methods in derived classes

Reusing code from multiple projects

• Creating a class library in Visual Studio
• Setting references

Programming Web Applications with ASP.NET

Constructing ASP.NET Web sites with Visual Studio

• Writing HTML pages and forms
• Maintaining consistency with Master Pages
• Designing pages with ASP.NET controls
• Styling sites with ASP.NET themes

Processing ASP.NET Web Forms

• Displaying data and gathering user input
• Initialising Web Forms controls
• Activating Web Forms with events
• Maintaining variables with Sessions

Controlling Web site access

• Configuring Web Forms security
• Setting up a user login page
• Automating user account creation

Incorporating Relational Databases

Relational database concepts

• Employing databases for fast, efficient storage
• Selecting, inserting, updating and deleting query syntax

Creating a SQL Server database

• Adding tables, fields and indexes
• Defining primary and foreign key relationships

Accessing the database with ADO.NET

• Connecting to the database and running SQL commands
• Storing user information
• Retrieving existing records

Deploying .NET Applications

• Installing the .NET Framework
• Publishing applications with ClickOnce
• Moving ASP.NET applications to the Web