Visual Basic .NET for Web MCSD/MCAD 70-305

Summary:

This training explains how to develop and implement Web-based applications with Web forms, ASP.NET, and the Microsoft .NET Framework.

Specific topics presented are

• web forms
• controls
• user interface navigation
• data binding and manipulation
• error handling
• components
• assemblies
• web services
• globalization
• legacy code
• deploying and maintaining web applications.

Learning Segment 1: Web Forms and Controls

Summary:

This learning segmet provides an overview of the use of Visual Studio .NET and how to use it to create ASP.NET pages and implement HTML controls.

Objectives:

• Create ASP.NET pages in Visual Studio .NET
• Create event handlers to respond to events
• Add controls to ASP.NET pages
• Customise control appearance and behaviour using properties
• Validate user input

Topics:

• The .NET Framework .NET development tools
• Classes, inheritance, and namespace
• Active Server Pages .NET
• Event handling
• Separating user interfaces and business logic
• Web form using Visual Studio .NET
• HTML controls
• Web server controls
• List controls
• Validating user input
• Cascading style sheets

Learning Segment 2: User Interface Navigation and Error Handling

Summary:

This learning segmet provides an overview of the use of Visual Studio .NET and how to use it to implement navigation and error handling for the user interface.

Objectives:

• Manage data during postback events
• Manage data across pages
• Create custom error pages
• Handle errors at both the application and page level

Topics:

• Round-trip and postback
• Intrinsic objects ASP.NET applications
• Client-side state management techniques
• Server-side state management techniques
• Navigating between pages
• Understanding exceptions
• Handling exceptions
• Managing unhandled exceptions

Learning Segment 3: Binding, Consuming, and Manipulating Data

Summary:

This learning segmet provides an overview of the use of Visual Studio .NET and how to use it to bind, consume, and manipulate data.

Objectives:

• Bind data to the user interface
• Filter and transform data
• Create SQL Server queries and stored procedures
• Retrieve data from relational databases with ADO.NET
• Load and edit data into a DataSet object
• Handle locking and other errors during data access operations

Topics:

• User interface data binding
• Data Bind method
• Manipulating databases
• Using template controls
• Accessing SQL Server data
• Manipulating SQL Server data
• Using stored procedures
• Accessing and manipulating data
• The ADO.NET object model
• Using DataSets Editing data
• Using XML data
• Handling data errors

 Learning Segment 4 : Components, Assemblies, and Web Services

Summary:

This learning segmet provides an overview of the use of Visual Studio .NET and how to use it to create, as well as manage, components, assemblies, and web services.

Objectives:

• Derive a component from the component class
• Create a web user control
• Create both composite and derived custom controls
• Create a .NET assembly
• Create, discover, and instantiate a web service

Topics:

• Creating and using .NET components
• Web user controls
• Web custom control
• Creating and managing .NET assemblies
• Understanding web services
• Discovering web services
• Instantiating and invoking web services

Learning Segment 5: Globalisation and Legacy Code

Summary:

This learning segmet provides an overview of the use of Visual Studio .NET and how to use it to globalize an application and work with legacy code.

Objectives:

• Localise an application
• Use culture information at runtime
• Use character encodings to present information
• Mirror a user interface
• Use an ActiveX control from ASP.NET
• Instantiate a COM component from .NET code

Topics:

• Localisation and globalisation
• Cultures
• Implementing mirroring
• Using existing code
• Using Active X controls
• Using COM components
• Using platform invoke

 Learning Segment 6: Testing, Debugging, and Deploying Web Applications

Summary:

This learning segmet provides an overview of the use of Visual Studio .NET and how to use it to provide user assistance and accessibility. It also covers how to test, debug, and deploy a web application.

Objectives:

• Implement user assistance and ensure accessibility for users with disabilities
• Create a test plan
• Configure and use the debugging environment
• Create setup and deployment projects for Web applications
• Add assemblies to the Global Assembly Cache
• Deploy an application to a Web garden, Web farm, or cluster

Topics:

• User assistance and accessibility
• Testing Tracing Debugging Deploying Web applications
• Customising setup projects
• Shared assemblies
• Creating installation components
• Scalable and reliable deployment

Learning Segment 7: Maintaining, Supporting, and Configuring Web Applications

Summary:

This learning segmet provides an overview of the use of Visual Studio .NET and how to use it to maintain, support, and configure a web application.

Objectives:

• Optimise the performance of a Web application
• Locate and resolve errors in a Web application
• Read, write, and monitor event log and performance data
• Use application configuration files
• Configure authentication and authorisation for a Web application
• Use caching and session state to hold data

Topics:

• Designing web applications
• Using event logs
• Using performance counters
• Configuring web applications
• Configuring security
• Using caching and session state
• Installing and configuring server services

Learning Segment 8: Practice Exams

Summary:

This learning segmet provides two practice exams for the Microsoft 70-305 certification exam.

Objectives:

• Practice for the Developing and Implementing Web Applications with Visual Basic .NET and Visual Studio .NET MCSD/MCAD 70-305 exam.

Topics:

• Preparing for the exam Practice Exam 1 Practice Exam 2

Features:

• A Course Topics list contains active hyperlinks, permitting quick access to specific topics.
• Find-A-Word allows learners to look up an unfamiliar term in the Glossary, on the Web, or in a dictionary. In addition, it lets them find other occurrences of the term in the same course.
• Search text enables learners to rapidly search all text within a course to easily retrieve information required.
• Courses challenge the learner with a variety of question formats, including multi-step simulations, true/false, multiple choice, and fill-in-the-blank.
• A skill assessment generates a customized learning path based on the results of a pre-test.
• A glossary provides a reference for definitions of unfamiliar terms.
• Bookmarking tracks the learner's progress in a course.

Technical Requirements:

P500+ Processor, 128MB of RAM; Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Minimum screen resolution 800x600, Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher; Windows Media Player 9.0 or higher; Flash 8.0 or higher; 56K minimum connection; broadband (256 kpbs or higher) connection recommended; Cookies enabled; Sound card with speakers or headphones strongly recommended.