Windows Forms Programming

• Debugging Techniques
• Structured Error Handling
• Interface Inheritance
• Implementation Inheritance
• Visual Inheritance

Data and Access

• ADO.NET Breakdown
• Methods of Accessing Data
• Data Reader vs. Data Adapter
• Datasets and XML
• Datasets vs. Data Views
• Calling Stored Procedures in SQL 7.0

 .NET Framework and Visual Studio.NET

• Microsoft's .NET History
• .NET Overview
• Base Class Library
• Common Language Runtime
• IDE Elements
• Forms Overview
• Everything is an Object
• Code Constructs

Object-Oriented Features

• New Class Basics
• Overloading
• Overriding
• Using .NET Controls
• Rethinking Object Design
• Building MDI Application with Menus

COM and Web Services

• Language Differences from VB6
• Accessing COM objects
• Accessing .NET Assemblies from VB6
• Why Web Services?
• All about SOAP
• Three steps to a web service
• Accessing a web service in any .NET App
• Exposing existing Com Objects
• Discovery services for locating web services

Distribution & Versioning

• Assemblies, the GAC, and versioning
• Migrating from VB6
• Deployment Options

   Project

Project involves creating a component with ADO.NET, Web Services using proper business rules, accessing the DLL  from a Windows Form to add, edit, update, and delete records, accessing a web service, and thus creating an application that accesses web service to access the component and the data.

What You'll Learn

• You will learn how to develop VB.NET windows client/server applications employing Windows Forms, Web Services, ADO.NET, XML, Data Binding, Components, and the .NET framework. All exercises will be created using the Visual Basic.NET language. Students will learn how to use Visual Studio.NET integrated development environment to develop VB.NET applications. All database exercises will employ Microsoft SQL Server7.0/2000.