Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2008 delivers on the Microsoft vision of smart client applications by enabling developers to rapidly create connected applications that deliver the highest quality, rich user experiences.
With Visual Studio 2008, organizations will find it easier than ever before to capture and analyze information to help them make effective business decisions.
Our instructor led courses are filled with examples and designed with hands-on lab exercises so you can practice as you learn.
Our state of the art training rooms provide individual workstations to maximize your learning experience. We limit class size to 12 students, making the learning experience interactive yet personalized.
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Learning to Program Using Visual Basic 2008 In this course, you’ll learn to use Visual Studio 2008 to explore the Visual Basic language. The course starts with a quick overview of the .NET platform, examining assemblies, Microsoft Intermediate Language, Visual Studio profiles, XML comments, IntelliSense, and debugging. From there, you’ll learn all the language features that you must internalize in order to create full-featured Web or Windows applications that make best use of the .NET platform. You’ll learn about data types, variables, and operators, along with all the important flow control structures. You’ll work through several examples demonstrating the power of the .NET Framework, and dig into creating and consuming your own classes and objects. The course moves on to working with data structures, such as arrays and collection classes, before finishing up with discussions of generics, handling exceptions and working with delegates and events. The course concludes by introducing the new LINQ-oriented features added to the .NET Framework 3.5, including anonymous types, lambda expressions, and more. By the end of this course, you will understand the important basic concepts that will allow you to start creating the applications you need.
Windows Communication Foundation Using Visual Basic 2008 In this course, you will learn how to use Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and you will see how it is a unified programming model for building service-oriented distributed applications. You will see how to build, host and call WCF services and you will gain a deep understanding of the basic building blocks of WCF, including endpoints, bindings and contracts.
2310 - Developing MS ASP .NET Web Applications Using Visual Studio 2008 .NET
This five-day instructor-led course will teach introductory-level Web developers the fundamentals of Web application development and best practices for Microsoft Web development technologies, including ASP.NET 3.5, ASP.NET AJAX Extensions, and Silverlight. This course focuses on using the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 development environment and the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 to create a Web application that delivers dynamic content to a Web site.
6464 - Visual Studio 2008: ADO.NET 3.5
This two-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to access and modify data by using ADO.NET 3.5.
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