[share_ebook] Exam-Pack 70-536: .NET 2.0 Application Development Foundation

In Exam-Pack 70-536: .NET 2.0 Application Development Foundation, instructor Garth Schulte walks you through the features and functionalities of .NET 2.0, using Visual Basic 2005. This series will give you a huge jump-start on developing applications in Visual Basic, on the .NET 2.0 platform.

Here's what you'll learn to do with Visual Basic 2005 and .NET 2.0:

Video 1 - Take a tour of Visual Studio 2005, Visual Basic 2005 and the .NET 2.0 Framework -- become familiar with the new tools and technologies in the next generation of software development.

Video 2 - Discover the new Visual Basic 2005 language additions -- see the productivity features of Visual Basic 2005 in action.

Video 3 - Manage your application data with Variables, Types and Collections -- learn how to store, retrieve and manipulate the data your application needs to function.

Video 4 - Freshen up on the basics of Object Oriented Programming -- OOP is the foundation of a well architected application, see the new graphical tools Visual Studio has to simplify modeling our application infrastructure.

Video 5 - Standardize code by creating and using Generics -- learn about a significant new feature to the .NET 2.0 framework. Generics allow us to improve performance, reduce code and increase flexibility by "generalizing" our code classes.

Video 6 - Manipulate various forms of textual data -- search, extract, format, twist and turn string-based objects and their data using different technologies and techniques.

Video 7 - Implement input/output operations on the file system -- learn how to create, edit and manipulate files along with their content using different I/O techniques.

Video 8 - Implement serialization operations on objects -- understand how and why we use serialization to simplify persisting object state.

Video 9 - Implement threaded application operations -- learn how to build multi-threaded applications to enhance user-friendliness and improve performance through asynchronous operations.

Video 10 - Handle application bugs and potential issues -- learn how to use structured exception handling to trap expected and unexpected errors so we can make decisions on how the application reacts.

Video 11 - Integrate diagnostic tools and functionality -- trace code paths to monitor performance and troubleshoot application issues.

Video 12 - Implement input/output operations on a database -- use ADO.NET 2.0 to read, write and manipulate data from a SQL Server database all while using a WinForms application to interact with the data.

Video 13 - Work with assembly files and assembly metadata -- see the role and makeup of assemblies in .NET 2.0 and how we can tweak them to fit our application needs.

Video 14 - Work with reflection classes -- see how and why we use reflection to dynamically work with our objects and code to save time.

Video 15 - Interoperate with code constructed in older technologies -- learn how to Work with code and applications that were built with COM based languages prior to the .NET framework.

Video 16 - Build Windows serviced applications -- see a real world example of how to build, install and update a Windows service application and also how to interact with a continuously running application.

Video 17 - Work with the .NET security architecture -- understand the different layers of security and how to use them in the .NET 2.0 framework, we'll cover everything from code security to data encryption.

Video 18 - Using .NET SMTP Mail -- see how to use the new email features of .NET 2.0 by creating and sending secure SMTP based email and using alternate views to support a wide variety of email clients.

Video 19 - Deploy .NET applications for installation -- see the different methods used for creating setups and deploying applications to a production environment, you'll see the new ClickOnce deployment technology and features new to the .NET 2.0 framework.