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Visual Studio 2008 Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist MCTS: .NET Framework 3.5, Windows Workflow Foundation Applications

The Microsoft Developer Certification for creating, communicating and hosting Windows Workflow

Course Contents:

Stage 1: Software Programming Fundamentals

Stage 2: Programming Best Practices

Stage 3: Software Development Principles

Stage 4: Microsoft Exam 70-536 MCTS: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 - Application Development Foundation

Stage 5: Microsoft Exam 70-504 MCTS: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 – Windows Workflow Foundation Application Development

Course Code:

VSMCF-7

Course Duration:

12 months

Typical Study Hours:

40 - 50 hours

Course Fees:

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Study Prerequisite:

Computer programming certifications or relevant industry experience.

Additional Information for Stage 1:

• Software Programming Fundamentals:
  • Getting Started
  • Designing Programs

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Additional Information for Stage 2:

• Programming Best Practices:
  • Programming Techniques and Strategies
  • General Coding Best Practices
  • Object-oriented Coding Best Practices
  • Maintaining Quality Code

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Additional Information for Stage 3:

Software Development Principles:

• Developing a User-Centred Software Design Approach
  • Introducing User-Centered Design
  • Developing an Application Using User-Centered Design
  • The Iterative Process in User-Centered Design
  • Practical Examples of User-Centered Design

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Additional Information for Stage 4:

Microsoft Exam 70-536 MCTS: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 - Application Development Foundation

• Visual Basic: System Types and Collections
  • Recognise basic object-oriented programming procedures in Visual Basic
  • Identify the variables in Visual Basic
  • Create types
  • Create classes
  • Create types and classes in a given scenario
  • Recognise the interfaces in the System namespace
  • Recognise the interfaces in the System.Collections namespace
  • Use classes in the System.Collections namespace
  • Identify the classes in the System.Collections namespace
  • Identify the classes that provide the abstract base class
  • Use interfaces and classes in a given scenario
  • Create generic types
  • Create generic interfaces
  • Create generic classes
  • Create generic enumerators
  • Create generics

• Visual Basic: Serialisation and I/O
  • Serialise an object in Visual Basic
  • Distinguish between serialisation interfaces
  • Use the SerialisationInfo classes
  • Use XMLserialisation and deserialisation
  • Serialise and deserialise an object in binary format
  • Serialise and deserialise an object in SOAP format
  • Use serialisation in a given scenario
  • Use the FileStream class
  • Distinguish between the most common file handling classes in the System.IO namespace
  • Match the classes to examples of their file management tasks
  • Implement isolated storage
  • Use stream, isolated storage, and file management classes in a given scenario
  • Determine how to improve application performance using serialisation and I/O

• Visual Basic: Customised Programming
  • Integrate a COM object into .NET
  • Use data marshalling
  • Use DLL functions
  • Use System.Reflection
  • Use System.Reflection.Emit
  • Perform interoperation and reflection in a given scenario
  • Use GDI+ to draw a shape
  • Use GDI+ to display images
  • Manipulate text in an application
  • Draw and manipulate text in Visual Basic
  • Determine how to customise a Visual Basic application
  • Develop e-mail functionality in an application
  • Recognise how to configure CultureInfo
  • Recognise how to configure NumberFormatInfo
  • Recognise how to configure RegionInfo
  • Configure DateTimeFormatInfo
  • Develop e-mail capabilities in an application
  • Localise and application

• Visual Basic: Security
  • Implement evidence-based security
  • Implement role-based security
  • Implement evidence-based security in a given scenario
  • Implement role-based security in a given scenario
  • Implement file security
  • Implement authentication
  • Implement permissions using the System.Security namespace
  • Implement permissions using the System.Security.Permissions namespace in a given scenario
  • Use the command-line to implement permissions
  • Implement file and code access security permissions in a given scenario
  • Implement symmetric cryptography
  • Implement asymmetric cryptography in a given scenario
  • Use hash algorithms
  • Use the DPAPI
  • Use cryptography in a given scenario

• Visual Basic: Threading, Service Processing, and Application Domains
  • Implement threading
  • Use the WaitHandle class
  • Use the EventWaitHandle class
  • Use the ReaderWriterLock class
  • Use special classes
  • Use Thread Timers
  • Recognise the features of the ThreadState and ThreadPriority enumerations
  • Develop threads in Visual Basic
  • Create a Windows Service
  • Identify the characteristics of Windows Services
  • Install and run a Windows Service
  • Use the ServiceBase class
  • Use the ServiceController class
  • Use the ServiceInstaller class
  • Implement Windows Services in a given scenario
  • Configure application domains
  • Configure an application domain in a given scenario
  • Determine how to improve system operation using threading, service processing, and application domains

• Visual Basic: Diagnostics and Management
  • Recognise how to use configuration file and section classes
  • Recognise how to use configuration elements interfaces
  • Program custom installers for components
  • Configure .NET applications for deployment
  • Program configuration data
  • Program custom installers
  • Use event logs
  • Use system processes
  • Manage event logs and system processes
  • Determine how to manage configuration, custom installation, and system processes.
  • Debug an application
  • Trace an application
  • Describe management events
  • Retrieve system information
  • Debug an application
  • Manage system information

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Additional Information for Stage 5:

Microsoft Exam 70-504 MCTS: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 – Windows Workflow Foundation Application Development

• WCF Contracts, Behaviors, and Data Management
  • Implement event-based asynchronous pattern for a client and a service
  • Implement one-way operations and a duplex contract
  • Manage multiple contracts and endpoints, and modify WSDL names
  • Create data contracts
  • Implement typed message contracts
  • Implement untyped message contracts
  • Code an asynchronous WCF client
  • Define a class hierarchy
  • Define a typed message contract
  • Recognize how channels work in WCF
  • Specify bindings in WCF
  • Use the XML Serialiser to serialise data
  • Use MTOM encoding to transmit large amounts of data over a network
  • Select the appropriate binding for given scenarios
  • Use the XMLSerialiser class to serialise data
  • Use MTOM to stream large amounts of data over a network
  • Implement WCF service behaviors
  • Implement a transaction
  • Implement a message inspector with a custom behavior
  • Configure service behaviors
  • Configure a transaction
  • Configure a message inspector with a custom behavior
  • Work with WCF contracts, behaviors, and data management

• Activities, Rules, and Conditions in WF with Visual Basic 2008
  • Create custom composite activities
  • Customise the visual designer for a custom activity
  • Implement a custom activity to reference and use a local service, and modify the workflow
  • Serialise a workflow code model to markup
  • Serialise a custom activity using a custom serialiser
  • Deserialise a markup file
  • Create a custom composite activity and customise the visual designer for it
  • Implement a custom activity to reference and use a local service, and modify the workflow
  • Perform serialisation and deserialisation
  • Recognise key characteristics of rules
  • Recognise which type of rule chaining to use in a given scenario
  • Create rules using the Rule Set Editor
  • Use a PolicyActivity to define rules in a workflow
  • Update rules dynamically in a running workflow
  • Implement conditional branching logic into rules
  • Create and update rules
  • Implement conditional branching logic into rules

• Transactions, Compensations, and Runtime Services in WF with Visual Basic 2008
• Use transactions to ensure the effectiveness of a workflow
• Recognise how WF supports transactions
• Use compensations to ensure the effectiveness of a workflow
• Handle faults in a workflow
• Implement transactions and compensations in a workflow
• Perform fault handling in a workflow
• Create scheduling services
• Create persistence services
• Create a tracking profile using the TrackingProfile class
• Create a tracking profile using the SqlTrackingService class
• Query workflows that have been tracked
• Implement tracing for a workflow application
• Use the Performance Monitor to manage workflow counters and capture data
• Develop scheduling and persistence services
• Develop a tracking profile and query a workflow that has been tracked
• Configure tracing for a workflow application
• Enable a workflow counter

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