Introduction to .NET

Course Number:  520-JK
Recommended Duration:  1 day

Intended Audience
Managers, designers, developers, and other people needing an introduction to the Microsoft .NET environment.

Course Overview
Course appropriate for Visual Studio .NET 2003.

Objectives
Students will learn the terms and tools that are part of .NET and Visual Studio.

Prerequisites:  No prior experience is needed

Topics

• Understanding Microsoft .NET managed execution environment

• Common Language Runtime (CLR) and Intermediate Language (IL)

• Common Type System, Common Language Specification, and Framework Class Library

• Microsoft only? Not anymore

• Introduction to Visual Studio .NET

• Visual Basic .NET application development

• C# .NET application development

• Comparing C# and Visual Basic .NET

• Internet Information Server (IIS) Concepts

• Windows Forms, Web Forms, Web Services,

• ASP.NET (Active Server Pages for .NET)

• ADO.NET (ActiveX Data Objects for .NET)

• SQL Server and other databases