M2957
Advanced Foundations of Microsoft .NET 2.0 Development
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS):
Microsoft .NET Framework M2957 70-536
Course Title: Advanced Foundations of Microsoft .NET 2.0
Development
Course Code: M2957
Version: B
Level: 200
Duration: 3 Days
Course Overview
The Advanced Foundations of Microsoft .NET 2.0 Development M2957 instructor-led training course has been designed to provide candidates with the necessary skills and knowledge required to programme Microsoft .NET Framework applications by using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 development system.Target Audience
Candidates who should consider attending the M2957 Microsoft training course are full-time application developers who have professional experience with Visual Studio 2005 and either Microsoft Visual Basic development system or Microsoft Visual C# development tool.Course Objectives
On successfully completing the M2957 course candidates will be able to:- Enhance user interfaces by using System.Drawing
- Work with cultures by using System.Globalisation
- Process text by using regular expressions and encodings
- Encrypt and hash data by using cryptography
- Secure code execution and resources
- Explain how to implement application interoperability
- Describe and use reflection, metadata, and emitting objects
- Describe and use services, threading, and application domains
Course Prerequisites
Candidates attending the M2957 Microsoft training course are required to be able to: understand the purpose and components of the .NET Framework 2.0 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 and write code by using language-specific functionality such as the My. classes for Visual Basic.Furthermore, candidates are required to be able to: 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 and use the Visual Studio 2005 object browser and the Visual Studio help system.
Finally, candidates are recommended to have previously attended and completed course M2956: Core Foundations of Microsoft .NET 2.0 Development, in preparation for this course.
Testing and Certification
The M2957 Microsoft training course is the recommended preparation for the 70-536 TS: Microsoft .NET Framework - Application Development Foundation exam.Course Content
Module 1: Enhancing User Interfaces by Using System.DrawingIn this module candidates will learn about the key features of the System.Drawing namespace that the .NET Framework provides. The module also explains how to create and modify custom drawings.
Lessons:
- Drawing Fundamentals
- Drawing Lines and Shapes
- Rendering Bitmaps and Icons
- Drawing a Feedback Bar
- Drawing a Feedback Pie Chart
- Implementing an Automatic Double Buffer
- Adding Fonts to an Application
- Saving Scaled Images
- Use points, sizes, brushes, pens, colours, and fonts
- Draw lines and shapes
- Create and use images, bitmaps, and icons
Module 2: Working with Cultures by Using System.Globalisation
In this module candidates will learn how to use the System.Globalisation namespace to work with culture information and perform culture-sensitive string comparisons. The module also describes how to create a custom culture.
Lessons:
- Working with Culture Information
- Formatting and Sorting Culture-Sensitive Data
- Creating a Custom Culture
- Managing Culture Information
- Creating a Custom Culture
- Explain the purpose of the System.Globalisation namespace and describe how to access culture information by using the CultureInfo class
- Format values by using the supporting classes in the System.Globalisation namespace and explain how to perform culture-sensitive string comparisons
- Create a custom culture by using the CultureAndRegionInfoBuilder class
Module 3: Processing Text by Using Regular Expressions and Encodings
In this module candidates will learn about the key features of the System.Text namespace that the .NET Framework provides. The module explains how to store and manipulate strings, how and when to implement regular expressions, and how to customise encodings to produce the correct results when text is processed.
Lessons:
- Handling Text and Large Strings
- Using Regular Expressions
- Encoding Text
- Handling Text and Strings
- Creating and Using Regular Expressions
- Working with Encoding
- Explain the purpose of and use the StringBuilder class
- Describe the purpose of and create regular expressions by using the classes in the System.Text.RegularExpressions namespace
- Describe text encoding and how to encode and decode text by using the encoding classes
Module 4: Encrypting and Hashing Data by Using Cryptography
In this module candidates will learn when to use data encryption and hashing and how to use the classes in the .NET Framework 2.0 to perform these cryptographic tasks. The module also discusses how to customise the implementation of specific algorithms by extending base classes in the System.Security.Cryptography namespace.
Lessons:
- Working with Encryption and Hashing
- Encrypting and Decrypting Data
- Hashing Data
- Extending Cryptography
- Creating an Asymmetric Key
- Encrypting a File
- Decrypting a File
- Exporting and Importing a Public Key
- Getting a Private Key
- Explain the purpose of encryption and hashing algorithms
- Describe the algorithms available for hashing and encryption
- Describe the difference between symmetrical and asymmetrical algorithms
- Encrypt and decrypt data by using the classes in the System.Security.Cryptography namespace
- Create custom classes that extend the .NET Framework cryptography model
Module 5: Securing Code Execution and Resources
In this module candidates will learn how code access security (CAS) works, how to make CAS permission checks in code, and how to configure CAS security policy. The module 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). Finally, the module describes how .NET Framework security performs authorisation checks and how to customise the mechanism.
Lessons:
- Using Code Access Security
- Securing Code Execution by Using Policy
- Securing Resources by Using Access Control
- Customising Authentication and Authorisation
- Viewing the Starter Solution
- Adding Role-Based Security
- Testing the Application
- Describe and implement CAS by using the System.Security and System.Security.Permissions namespaces
- Explain how to control code privileges by using the System.Security.Policy namespace, and describe how to use the utilities provided with the .NET Framework to manage computer, user, and enterprise-level policy
- Describe and use access control by using the classes in the System.Security.AccessControl namespace
- Explain how to authenticate and authorise users by using the System.Security.Principal namespace
Module 6: Application Interoperability
In this module candidates will learn 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. The module 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
- 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
- Use the Platform Invoke service to incorporate unmanaged functions into a .NET Framework application
- Integrate unmanaged COM components into a .NET Framework application
- Incorporate components that are built by using the.NET Framework into unmanaged applications
Module 7: Reflection, Metadata, and Emitting Objects
In this module candidates will learn how to use the classes in the .NET Framework 2.0 class library to examine a programme, alter the behaviour or structure of the programme as it runs, and create and run new code.
Lessons:
- Reflecting on Objects
- Adding Assembly Metadata
- Emitting Objects by Using Builder Classes
- 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
- Explain and use reflection in .NET Framework applications by using the System.Reflection namespace
- Describe and create application metadata
- Describe and create Microsoft intermediate language (MSIL) and portable executable (PE) files by using the System.Reflection.Emit namespace
Module 8: Services, Threading, and Application Domains
In this module candidates will learn how to use the Microsoft .NET Framework classes to write Windows services and classes to install services. The module also explains how to use the .NET Framework classes to create thread objects to execute code and to synchronise execution between threads. Finally, the module describes how to access and configure application domains.
Lessons:
- Creating and Installing Windows Services
- Creating Multithreaded Applications
- Manually Working with Application Domains
- Creating a Service Project
- Creating the Installation Project
- Creating a Client Application
- Writing the Service Code
- Explain how to create, install, and control a Windows service by using the System.ServiceProcess namespace
- Describe and implement multithreaded applications by using the System.Threading namespace
- Describe and create application domains
