Module 1: Enhancing User Interfaces by Using System.Drawing

This module describes the key features of the System.Drawing namespace that the .NET Framework provides. It also explains how to create and modify your own custom drawings.

Lessons

• Drawing Fundamentals
• Drawing Lines and Shapes
• Rendering Bitmaps and Icons

Lab: Drawing to a Windows Form

• Drawing a Feedback Bar
• Drawing a Feedback Pie Chart
• Implementing an Automatic Double Buffer
• Adding Fonts to Your Application
• Saving Your Scaled Image

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 2: Working with Cultures by Using System.Globalization

This module describes how to use the System.Globalization namespace to work with culture information and perform culture-sensitive string comparisons. It also describes how to create a custom culture.

Lessons

• Working with Culture Information
• Formatting and Sorting Culture-Sensitive Data
• Creating a Custom Culture

Lab: Working with Cultures by Using System.Globalization

• Managing Culture Information
• Creating a Custom Culture

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 3: Processing Text by Using Regular Expressions and Encodings

This module describes the key features of the System.Text namespace that the .NET Framework provides. It explains how to store and manipulate strings, how and when to implement regular expressions, and how to customize encodings to produce the correct results when you process text

Lessons

• Handling Text and Large Strings
• Using Regular Expressions
• Encoding Text

Lab: Processing Text by Using Regular Expressions and Encodings

• Handling Text and Strings
• Creating and Using Regular Expressions
• Working with Encoding

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 4: Encrypting and Hashing Data by Using Cryptography

Lessons

• Working with Encryption and Hashing
• Encrypting and Decrypting Data
• Hashing Data
• Extending Cryptography

Lab: Creating a Cryptographic Application

• Creating an Asymmetric Key
• Encrypting a File
• Decrypting a File
• Exporting and Importing a Public Key
• Getting a Private Key

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 5: Securing Code Execution and Resources

This module describes how code access security (CAS) works, how to make CAS permission checks in code, and how to configure CAS security policy. It also introduces Windows operating system access checks and explains how to use the .NET Framework base class library to read and modify Windows access control lists (ACLs). This module also describes how .NET Framework security performs authorization checks and how to customize the mechanism.

Lessons

• Using Code Access Security
• Securing Code Execution by Using Policy
• Securing Resources by Using Access Control
• Customizing Authentication and Authorization

Lab: Custom Authentication by Using Principal Objects

• Viewing the Starter Solution
• Adding Role-Based Security
• Testing the Application

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 6: Application Interoperability

This module describes how to invoke functions that are implemented in unmanaged DLLs, and how to use various techniques for integrating Component Object Model (COM) components into managed applications. It also explains how to make managed components that are built by using the .NET Framework available to unmanaged COM client applications

Lessons

• Using the Platform Invoke Service
• Integrating COM Components into a .NET Framework Application
• Integrating Managed Components into an Unmanaged Application

Lab: Application Interoperability

• Integrating Unmanaged Functions into a Managed Application
• Integrating a COM Component into a Managed Application by Creating an Interop Assembly
• Integrating a COM Component into a Managed Application by Using Late Binding
• Manually Creating an Interop Assembly for a COM Component

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 7: Reflection, Metadata, and Emitting Objects

This module describes how to use the classes in the .NET Framework 2.0 class library to examine a program, alter the behavior or structure of the program as it runs, and create and run new code.

Lessons

• Reflecting on Objects
• Adding Assembly Metadata
• Emitting Objects by Using Builder Classes

Lab: Creating an Add-in Framework by Using Reflection

• Creating a Custom Attribute to Decorate Add-in Classes
• Using Reflection to Discover the Add-in Classes
• Creating a Mapping from Columns to Properties
• Creating a Dynamic Method to Set a Property Value
• Invoking the Row Handler

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 8: Services, Threading, and Application Domains

This module describes how to use the Microsoft .NET Framework classes to write Windows services and classes to install services. It also explains how to use the .NET Framework classes to create thread objects to execute code and to synchronize execution between threads. Finally, this module describes how to access and configure application domains.

Lessons

• Creating and Installing Windows Services
• Creating Multithreaded Applications
• Manually Working with Application Domains

Lab: Creating a Windows Service Application

• Creating a Service Project
• Creating the Installation Project
• Creating a Client Application
• Writing the Service Code

After completing this module, students will be able to: