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About This Course

Elements of this syllabus are subject to change.

This three-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to program Microsoft .NET Framework applications by using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 development system. This course helps students to prepare for Exam 70-536, which is a core requirement for the MCTS certification. With the release of this course, Microsoft Partners will be able to provide their customers with a complete certification track in the classroom.

Audience Profile

The audience for this course consists of application developers with the skills to develop business applications by using Visual Studio 2005 and either Microsoft Visual Basic development system or Microsoft Visual C# development tool.

Prerequites

Before attending this course, students must be able to:

• Understand the purpose and components of the .NET 2.0 Framework and the common language runtime.
• Understand and use the .NET Framework 2.0 common type system (CTS).
• Understand basic language syntax for decision structures, loop structures, and variables.
• Write code by using language-specific functionality such as the My. classes for Visual Basic.
• Understand and use classes, objects, methods, properties, and functions.
• Write code to implement overridden methods, static (Visual C#) or Shared (Visual Basic) methods, and properties.
• Use type conversions and text conversions.
• Create and use solutions and projects by using Visual Studio 2005.
• Use the Visual Studio 2005 object browser and the Visual Studio help system.

Important: This learning product will be most useful to people who are consist of application developers with the skills to develop business applications by using Visual Studio 2005 and either Microsoft Visual Basic development system or Microsoft Visual C# development tool.

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will gain the skills to:

• Develop applications that use types and standard contracts.
• Manage common data by using collections.
• Deploy and configure assemblies.
• Monitor and debug applications.
• Read and write files.
• Serialize data.