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Course Number: 125
Duration: 4 days
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Looking for Introduction to VB.NET 3.5 Programming?

VB.NET Language Training Overview

This VB.NET 2.0 training course teaches attendees the object-oriented development and VB.NET 2.0 language skills they need to successfully develop elegant, efficient VB.NET code.

Location and Pricing

Most Accelebrate courses are taught on-site at our clients' locations worldwide for groups of 3 or more attendees and are customized to their specific needs. Please visit our client list to see organizations for whom we have recently delivered training. These courses can also be delivered as live, private online classes for groups that are geographically dispersed or wish to save on the instructor's or students' travel expenses. To receive a customized proposal and price quote private training at your site or online, please contact us.

In addition, some courses are available as live, online classes for individuals. To see a schedule of online courses, please visit http://www.accelebrate.com/online_training/microsoft.htm.

VB.NET Language Training Prerequisites

Prior full-time programming experience. If your group will not have prior programming experience, we recommend allowing 5 days for this course.

Hands-on/Lecture Ratio

This VB.NET training class is 70% hands-on, 30% lecture, with the longest lecture segments lasting 15-20 minutes.

VB.NET Language Training Materials

All VB.NET training students receive more than 500 pages of comprehensive courseware and a related textbook.

Software Needed on Each Student PC

Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows Server 2003
Optional: Internet Information Server 5, 6, 7, or later (enable prior to loading SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005)
Visual Studio 2005 (or 2008) (with SQL Server Express enabled)
If instruction on .NET Framework 3.0 or 3.5 is desired, please install the .NET Framework 3.0 or 3.5 SDK
A minimum of 1GB RAM

VB.NET Language Training Objectives

All attendees will learn how to:

Build and debug applications using Visual Studio 2005.
Create and use variables, operators, and data types.
Find and use the classes you need within the .NET Framework.
Manage flow control within your code, branching and looping as needed.
Create and consume classes and objects.
Add and consume properties and methods in your classes.
Make use of .NET's object-oriented features, such as overloading, inheritance and interfaces.
Store, retrieve, and manipulate multiple values using arrays.
Work with .NET 2.0's generics.
Make best use of the .NET Framework's support for collection classes.
Handle exceptions in your code.
Create and use delegates, and understand how they relate to events

VB.NET Language Training Outline

Getting Started: Hello World

Thinking about .NET
Using Visual Studio 2005
Debugging Your Applications

Variables and Data Types

Introducing Variables and Data Types
Converting from One Data Type to Another
Working with Operators

Using the .NET Framework

Generating Random Numbers
Getting Information about the Computer
Working with XML
Working with File I/O
Working with Strings
Working with Dates and Times
Introducing the My Namespace

Branching and Flow Control

Conditional Branching
Repeating Code Blocks
Other Control Flow Statements

Classes and Objects

Introducing Objects and Classes
Creating Your Own Classes
Value Types vs. Reference Types
Object Lifetime (Disposal and Deterministic Finalization)
Instance Members

Object Properties and Methods

Working with Properties
Calculating Values for Properties
Validating Values in Properties
Passing Arguments to Properties
Working with Methods
Passing Arguments to Methods
Returning Arrays
Working with Instance Members

Object-Oriented Techniques

Inheritance
Polymorphism
The Real Base Class: System.Object
Overriding Properties and Methods
Abstract Classes
Implementing and Creating Interfaces
Organizing Classes

Arrays

Introducing System.Array
Initializing Arrays
Iterating Through Arrays
Array methods
Passing Arrays as Method Parameters
Multi-Dimensional Arrays

Generics

Understanding Generics
Generic Types and Classes
Calling Generic Procedures
Generic Constraints

Collection Classes

Collection Interfaces
The Generic List
Constraints and Lists
Sorting Collections
Queues and Stacks
Hash Tables and Dictionaries

Exceptions

What Happens Without Exception Handling?
Adding a Simple Try/Catch Block
Using and Exception Object
Catching Specific Exceptions
Raising Errors
Finally: Running Code Unconditionally
Handling Unhandled Exceptions
Creating Exception Classes

Delegates and Events

Events, Historically
Interfaces vs. Delegates
Delegates as Type-Safe Function Pointers
Motivating Events
Event Handlers as Delegate Instances

Conclusion