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ATC#VS08 - Microsoft C# New Technology Visual Studio 2008

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This five day instructor-led custom class provides students with the skills to take advantage of some of the new technologies available in .Net 3.0 and .Net 3.5 using the Visual Studio 2008 integrated development environment. The course focuses on Language Integrated Query (LINQ) to manipulate data from both XML and SQL Server data sources. It also focuses on Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) for passing data between different layers in a multi-layer distributed architecture. Finally, it covers Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) for building using interfaces for the presentation layer of an application.

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Prerequisites

Students must have at least one year of programming experience using C# in a Visual Studio environment. Student must have built at least one application, or part of an application, that has been deployed to a production environment using .Net technologies.

Detailed Class Syllabus

Unit 1: Data Typing

Auto-Implemented Properties

Object Initializers

Type Inference

Nullable Types

Generic Collections

Generic Classes

Generic Interfaces

Generic Methods

Anonymous Methods

Anonymous Types

Lambda Expressions

Extension Methods

Unit 2: Language Integrated Query

LINQ Query Notation

Deferred Execution

LINQ Query Operators

Extension Methods

Query Operations

Expression Trees

Unit 3: LINQ Providers

LINQ to XML

XObjects

Reading XML Data

Writing XML Data

LINQ to SQL

Query Expressions

Reading Relational Data

Writing Relational Data

Combining LINQ to SQL with LINQ to XML

LINQ to Datasets

Unit 4: Windows Communication Foundation

Web Service Description Language (WSDL)

Service Definition

Message Definition

WCF Endpoints

WCF Addresses

WCF Bindings

WCF Contracts

WCF Channels

WCF Behaviors

WCF Service Configuration

WCF Hosting Choices

Asynchronous Invocation

WCF Best Practices

Unit 5: Windows Presentation Foundation

The Need for WPF

XAML

The WPF Application Lifecycle

WPF Layout

WPF Containers

WPF Controls

Event Handling in WPF

Page Navigation

WPF Data Binding Basics

WPF Data Providers

WPF Data Binding

WPF Value Converters

Unit 6: ASP.Net, Ajax and Silverlight 2

RIA and Silverlight 2

Silverlight and the WCF Bug (and how to avoid)

Cross Domain Policy

Fiddler to Monitor Communications

The Expression Blend Tool

Unit 7: JQuery and ASP.Net

The IFormat interface

JSON Support in WCF

The JQuery JavaScript Library

JavaScript, JQuery and Visual Studio

Coding Best Practices