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

The Microsoft Developer Certification for Windows Forms creation, data integration, application configuration and deployment

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 70-505 MCTS: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 - Windows Forms Applications

Course Code:

VSMCF-8

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 70-505 MCTS: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 - Windows Forms Applications

• Windows Forms Creation with Visual Basic 2008
  • Recognise the steps for creating and customising forms
• Identify the steps for modifying form initialisation code
• Recognise the steps for adding controls at runtime
• Recognise the steps for setting access keys and customising the appearance of a form
• Recognise the steps for setting tab order, accessibility, and form behavior
• Identify the steps for organising the display of controls within panels and group boxes
• Identify the steps for organising controls on tabbed pages in a form
• Recognise the steps for configuring the layout of controls on a panel
• Recognise the steps for using the SplitContainer control to create dynamic container areas
• Add some controls to a form
• Set tab order on a form
• Initialise the form and its controls
• Group controls on a form
• Recognise the steps for creating an event handler in a Windows form
• Identify the uses of event handlers in Windows forms applications
• Recognise the code for programming an application to recognise modifier keys
• Recognise the code for overriding methods in the base class
• Create an event handler at runtime
• Connect multiple events to a single event handler
• Override a base method

• Data Integration with Visual Basic 2008
  • Identify the uses and benefits of data binding in given scenarios
  • Identify the steps for creating a database connection visually
  • Identify the steps for creating database connections programmatically
  • Identify ways to manage database connections
  • Identify the steps for creating a simple data-bound control
  • Identify the code for implementing complex data binding
  • Identify the steps for creating a data-bound Windows form using the Data Source Configuration Wizard
  • Identify the properties and methods of the BindingSource component
  • Establish a database connection
  • Create a bound control
  • Identify the steps for performing LINQ to DataSet Windows form data binding
  • Identify the steps for performing LINQ to SQL Windows form data binding
  • Identify the uses of LINQ to XML in Windows forms
  • Recognise the steps for creating and controlling a connection pool
  • Identify the steps for detecting database information with connection events
  • Recognise the steps for handling database connection exceptions
  • Recognise the steps for performing a transaction with the Transaction object
  • Query the database using a transaction with database exception handling code
  • Query data from data sources using LINQ

• Database Environments and XML Handling with Visual Basic 2008
  • Build and run a basic SQL query for a connected environment using Server Explorer
  • Complete the code to retrieve data in a connected environment
  • Use the appropriate code to perform asynchronous operations
  • Use the appropriate code to perform bulk copy operations
  • Use the appropriate code to retrieve binary large objects (BLOBs)
  • Create a DataSet programmatically and graphically
  • Use the appropriate code to configure DataSet data
  • Use the key methods of the DataAdapter object
  • Recognise correct use of the OleDbDataAdapter object to access a RecordSet or Record
  • Recognise the code used to create an event handler for a DataAdapter event
  • Configure a DataAdapter to perform batch operations
  • Program a Windows Forms application to access a data source in a connected environment, in a given scenario
  • Program a Windows Forms application to access a data source in a disconnected environment, in a given scenario
  • Recognise the code used to perform common operations on XML content
  • Recognise the code used to write XML data from the Document Object Model (DOM)
  • Recognise the code used to handle XML events
  • Recognise the code used to add an XML declaration
  • Recognise the code used to read XML using some of the XmlReader classes
  • Recognise the code used to write XML using the XmlTextWriter class
  • Create and modify an XML node element, given a scenario
  • Read XML using the XmlTextReader class, given a scenario
  • Write XML using the XmlTextWriter class

• Printing, MDI Forms, and Usability with Visual Basic 2008
  • Recognise the code used to enable a Windows Forms application to support printing logic
  • Recognise the code used to enable the selection of printers and documents at runtime using the PrintDialog component
  • Recognise the code used to set page-orientation settings at runtime using the PageSetupDialog component
  • Recognise the appropriate permission level to use to secure printing in a given scenario
  • Recognise the code used to customise print previewing
  • Configure basic print functionality, given a scenario
  • Configure print previewing, given a scenario
  • Create a multiple document interface (MDI) parent form
  • Recognise the code use to configure aspects of a multiple document interface (MDI) child form
  • Recognise the code used to configure MDI Forms menus using the MenuStrip and ContextMenuStrip classes
  • Create a parent MDI form, given a scenario
  • Create and configure a child MDI form, given a scenario
  • Configure a menu for a child MDI form using the MenuStrip and ContextMenuStrip classes
  • Implement globalisation and localisation
  • Set accessibility properties
  • Set properties to enable drag-and-drop functionality
  • Add status controls to .NET Windows Forms
  • Add and configure components used to integrate help and navigation into .NET Windows Forms
  • Recognise the code used to configure system and application settings in .NET Windows Forms
  • Recognise the code used to create a PropertyGrid control
  • Implement globalisation and localisation, given a scenario
  • Add contextual help and scrollbars to a control, given a scenario
  • Configure sound settings and a timed procedure, given a scenario

• Custom Controls and Asynchronous Programming with Visual Basic 2008
  • Create composite controls
  • Recognise the code to create custom properties, events, and methods
  • Create custom dialog boxes
  • Recognise the code used to draw a control
  • Recognise the code used to customise control appearance
  • Recognise the code used for user-control inheritance
  • Recognise the code used to customise a control icon
  • Create a composite control
  • Complete the code to draw and customise the appearance of a control
  • Recognise the code used to run a background process
  • Recognise the code used to check the progress of a background process
  • Recognise the code used to cancel a background process
  • Recognise the code used to implement asynchronous methods and multithreading
  • Complete the code to create an asynchronous method in a .NET Windows Form, given a scenario

• Application Configuration and Deployment with Visual Basic 2008
  • Publish a Windows Forms application using ClickOnce
  • Set the security permissions for a Windows Forms application using ClickOnce
  • Publish Vista and VSTO applications using ClickOnce
  • Create and configure Windows Installer deployment projects for Windows Forms applications
  • Add custom installation actions to Windows Installer deployment projects
  • Use ClickOnce to publish a Windows Forms application and set its security permissions
  • Create a Windows Installer deployment project for a Windows Forms application
  • Recognise how code access security works
  • Configure code access security
  • Deploy a Windows Forms application with elevated permissions using Trusted Application Deployment
  • Configure code access security
  • Use Trusted Application Deployment

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