Professional Microsoft Certification Track Advanced Course

msc311 - Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation Application Development

Objectives:

• Understand the WPF programming model

• Learn to build custom user controls

• Work with WPF data binding

• Work with animation and graphical rendering

• Learn to use Expression Blend to build WPF user interface

• Learn to configure and deploy WPF application

Prerequisites:

This course is intended for experienced .NET software developers. Understanding of Object Oriented Programming using C#.

Topics:

• WCF Overview

• Basic WPF Application

• User Interface

• Custom Look and Feel - WPF Style

• Data Binding and Collection

• Advanced Data Binding

• Controls

• Graphics Rendering Services

• Multimedia

• Document Controls

• Application Configuration

• Application Deployment

Duration: 24 hours

msc312 - Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation Application Development

Objectives:

• Understand the WCF Programming Model

• Understand WCF Binding Choices

• Understand Data Serialization Choices

• Understand WCF Security Issues

Prerequisites:

This course is intended for experienced .NET software developers. Understanding of Object Oriented Programming using C#.No knowledge of WCF is assumed.

Topics:

• WCF Overview

• Hosts & Clients

• Services

• Service management

• Reliable services

• Security

Duration: 24 hours

msc313 - Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation Application Development

Objectives:

• Understand the role of WF

• Use standard activities and build custom activities

• Work with sequential and state machine workflows

• Understand the WF architecture / intrinsic WF feature set

Prerequisites:

The student should have prior programming experience, basic problem solving and logic skills.

Topics:

• WWF Overview

• Activity Programming Model

• WWF Services

• Local Services

• Persistence Services

• Tracking Services

• Transaction Service

• State Machine Workflows

Duration: 24 hours

msc314 - Microsoft ADO.NET Data Access

Objectives:

• Learn the architecture and core classes of ADO.NET

• Gain fluency in programming ADO.NET using C#

• Insert, update, and delete data by using ADO.NET Command objects

• Implement transactions to control data integrity and concurrency

• Thorough understanding of the use of connected/disconnected DataSets

• Get a working knowledge of XML and ADO.NET

• Learn how to use newer features in ADO.NET 3.5 with Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2005/2008

• Define LINQ queries for selecting data from an in-memory data structure

• Use LINQ to SQL to query data in a database

• Use LINQ to SQL to modify data and save changes to the database

• Explain how to use the ADO.NET Entity Framework to map a database schema to a logical business model

• Use the ADO.NET Entity Framework to query and manage data

Prerequisites:

A basic knowledge of SQL, XML and .NET Framework application development using C#. A working knowledge of SQL Server is also desirable.

Topics:

• ADO.NET Architecture

• ADO.NET Connections and Commands

• DataSets and DataReaders

• Structured Query Language (SQL) & Stored Procedures

• ADO.NET and XML

• Advanced DataSets

• LINQ

• Entity Framework

• Data Binding with ADO.NET

• Providing ADO.NET Data Services

• ADO.NET Data Services LINQ

Duration: 30 hours

Technology and Engineering Course Modules Overview

This course is for developers and professionals who want to learn new technology or a new skill. This course assumes that you have a basic programming skills and understanding of Application development, including experience with relevant technology stream or development platform.
The Course is organized 50% Theory and 50% hands on lab.

• Schedule/week - 2 hrs Theory/hands on lab - 2 hrs assignment/problem solving - 2hrs Theory/hands on lab

• Open Lab Policy (available upon request and first come first priority)

• Cross platform Development (Linux/Unix/Windows)