The Philosophy of .NET

• Understand the limitations of COM
• Enumerate the key benefits of .NET
• Understand the Common Language Runtime (CLR)
• Examine the Common Type System (CTS)
• Survey choices for building managed code
• Survey the .NET Namespaces
• Configure your development environment

Programming with C#

• Understand the core syntax of C#.
• View the pillars of OOP through C#.
• Build `Indexer' Methods.
• Working with Overloaded Operators.

Interface Based Programming

• Define and implement interfaces in C#
• Explore the System.Collections namespace
• Build a cloneable object (ICloneable)
• Build a custom enumerator (IEnumerable / IEnumerator)

Common Language Runtime Fundamentals

• Understand value types vs. reference types.
• Understand array (System.Array) and string (System.String) processing.
• Build custom enumerations (System.Enum).
• Work with structures.
• Understand Boxing and unboxing.
• Build (and use) custom namespaces.

Understanding .NET Assemblies

• Review the limitations of classic COM binaries.
• Examine the internal composition of .NET assemblies.
• Distinguish between private and shared assemblies.
• Create application configuration files (*.config).
• Understand the .NET versioning scheme.
• Install shared assemblies into the GAC.

Reflection and Attribute Based Programming

• Understand the role of reflection.
• Understand how to explicitly load an external assembly.
• Exercise late binding to an assembly.
• Understand the role of attribute-based programming.

Programming Windows Forms

• Understand the derivation of a Form type
• Handle keyboard and mouse events
• Build Menu Systems (and context menus)
• Survey the Windows Form controls set
• Learn how to build Windows Forms Dialog Boxes
• Understand Form Inheritance

GDI+ (Painting and Printing Services)

• Understand the role of the Graphics class.
• Work with colors and fonts.
• Work with pens and brushes.
• Work with images.
• Understand the .NET resource format.

Input, Output and Object Serialization

• Learn to manipulate a directory and file structure.
• Open, read, write and close text files.
• Persist objects to (and read from) storage.

Understanding Threads

• Define a thread and understand when multithreading is useful
• Discuss the issues of concurrency and synchronization
• Use C# and the CLR to spawn and control threads
• Learn to write thread safe code

Understanding Remoting

• Learn about the remoting boundaries: AppDomains and Context
• Understand the role of channels, messages, and proxies.
• Contrast marshal by reference objects and marshal by value objects.
• Contrast server-activated objects and client-activated objects.
• Learn about the Leasing Distibuted Garbage Collector.
• See how to use the SOAPSUDS tool.

XML .NET Namespaces

• To see the role of XML in the .NET universe.
• Get an overview of the XML .NET Namespaces.
• Programmatically manipulate XML data using .NET types.

Data Access with ADO.NET

• Understand the ADO.NET model.
• Work with ADO.NET DataReaders.
• Work with ADO.NET DataSets and DataAdapters.
• Work with DataView types.
• Understand ADO.NET DataRelations.

An Introduction to ASP .NET

• Receive a quick and painless review of web applications.
• Understand the radical differences between classic ASP and ASP.NET.
• Understand the composition of a new VS.NET web project.
• Preview *.aspx files and page level directives.
• Understand the compilation cycle of an ASP.NET web app.

Programming ASP.NET Pages

• Understand the `Code Behind'.
• Understand the derivation of the Page type.
• Work with the incoming HTTP request.
• Work with the outgoing HTTP response.
• Check out a number of common (and interesting) ASP.NET programming techniques.

Programming with ASP.NET Web Forms

• Contrast the ASP and ASP.NET Page Architecture.
• Understand HTML Server Controls.
• Understand ASP.NET Web Controls.
• Work with ASP.NET Validating Controls.
• Build Custom User Controls.
• Build Custom ASP.NET Web Controls.

ASP.NET State Management Techniques

• Qualify an ASP.NET `application'.
• Revisit the role of `view state'.
• Program for application state.
• Program for session state.
• Programming `cookies' under ASP.NET.
• Work with out-of-process session management.

Building and Consuming Web Services

• Understand the role of Web Services.
• Learn the .NET attributes used to build Web Services.
• Understand the role of WSDL.
• Expose custom .NET types from a Web Service.
• Build various web service clients.

Interoperability with Legacy Systems

• Understand how to call unmanaged APIs (PInvoke).
• Call COM types from .NET types (RCW).
• Call .NET types from COM types (CCW).

Understanding COM+ Services

• Understand the utility of COM+
• See how to leverage COM+ services from managed code
• Use attributes to configure class for COM+ services
• Learn how to use COM+ Object Pooling
• Learn how to use COM+ Automatic Transactions