What is Microsoft .NET?: Level 1

• 1.0 Overview of the .NET Platform
• 1.1 Overview of .NET
• 1.2 Common Language Specification
• 1.3 Common Type System
• 1.4 .NET Applications
• 1.5 ADO.NET
• 1.6 Security Services
• 1.7 Why Migrate to .NET
• 1.8 Benefits of Using.NET
• 1.9 How to Migrate

• 2.0 Introduction to Visual Studio.NET
• 2.1 Overview to Visual Studio.NET
• 2.2 Project Templates
• 2.3 Getting Started with VS.NET
• 2.4 Creating a New Project
• 2.5 VS.NET Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

• 3.0 Introduction to Window Forms (WinForms)
• 3.1 Overview of WinForms
• 3.2 Standard WinForm Controls
• 3.3 Anchoring & Docking
• 3.4 Under the Hood
• 3.5 Displaying a WinForm

What is Microsoft .NET?: Level 2

• 1.0 What’s New in VB.NET
• 1.1 What’s Changed?

• 2.0 Introduction to the DataTable Class
• 2.1 The DataTable Class
• 2.2 Creating a DataTable

• 3.0 Working with the MessageBox Class
• 3.1 Overview of the MessageBox Class
• 3.2 Using the MessageBox Class

• 4.0 Multiple Document Interface (MDI) & Menus
• 4.1 Overview of MDI
• 4.2 Runtime Features of Child Forms
• 4.3 Creating Menus
• 4.4 Calling a Child Form
• 4.5 Child Menus in MDI Applications
• 4.6 Arranging Child Forms
• 4.7 Positioning Child Forms
• 4.8 Tracking Child Windows
• 4.9 Creating Pop-Up Menus
• 4.10 Manipulating Menus at Runtime
• 4.11 Unloading an MDI Application

What is Microsoft .NET?: Level 3

• 1.0 Creating Dialogue Forms
• 1.1 Creating Dialogue Box Forms

• 2.0 Using the Debugger
• 2.1 Overview of Debugging
• 2.2 Invoking the Debugger
• 2.3 Useful Windows for Debugging
• 2.4 Using the Debug Class
• 2.5 Conditional Compilation

• 3.0 Error Handling in VB.NET
• 3.1 Overview of Error Handling
• 3.2 Using Error Handling
• 3.3 Working with Specific Exceptions
• 3.4 Throwing Exceptions
• 3.5 Running Code Unconditionally
• 3.6 Creating Exception Classes

• 4.0 Classes in VB.NET
• 4.1 Overview of Classes
• 4.2 Creating a Class
• 4.3 Creating a Method
• 4.4 Passing Data to a Constructor

• 5.0 Overloading Methods
• 5.1 Overview of Overloading Methods
• 5.2 Creating an Overloaded Method
• 5.3 Overloading Sub New

• 6.0 Introduction to Inheritance
• 6.1 Overview of Inheritance
• 6.2 Creating an Inherited Class
• 6.3 Overriding a Method
• 6.4 Abstract Classes
• 6.5 Interface Inheritance
• 6.6 Visual Inheritance

What is Microsoft .NET?: Level 4

• 1.0 Creating a Class Library
• 1.1 Overview of Class Libraries
• 1.2 Creating a Class Library
• 1.3 Creating a Consumer Application
• 1.4 Creating a NameSpace
• 1.5 Adding Other Classes to a DLL
• 1.6 Updating Assembly Information
• 1.7 Under the Hood

• 2.0 List Box Control Basics
• 2.1 Adding Items to a List Box
• 2.2 Multi-Select List Boxes
• 2.3 Loading Objects into a List Box

• 3.0 Introduction to ADO.NET
• 3.1 Overview of ADO.NET Classes

• 4.0 ADO.NET Data Binding
• 4.1 Binding Data to a DataGrid
• 4.2 Creating Parameterized Query
• 4.3 Binding Data Manually

What is Microsoft .NET?: Level 5

• 1.0 ADO.NET Connection & Command Objects
• 1.1 Using the ADO.NET Connection Object
• 1.2 Using the ADO.NET Command Object

• 2.0 The ADO.NET DataReader Object
• 2.1 Loading a List Box
• 2.2 A Generic ListItem Class
• 2.3 Displaying Product Info
• 2.4 Finding Values in Combo Boxes

• 3.0 ADO.NET DataTables & DataSets
• 3.1 Load a ComboBox Using a DataTable Object
• 3.2 Creating a DataSet Object
• 3.3 Load a ListBox from a DataSet
• 3.4 Finding a Specific Row in the DataSet
• 3.5 Adding Rows to a DataSet
• 3.6 Updating Rows in a DataSet
• 3.7 Deleting Rows in a DataSet

• 4.0 ADO.NET & Stored Procedures
• 4.1 Executing Stored Procedures
• 4.2 Updating Data Using Stored Procedures

• 5.0 Introduction to XML
• 5.1 What is XML?
• 5.2 Displaying XML

• 6.0 Processing XML
• 6.1 Using System.XML in VB.NET
• 6.2 XMLTextReader & XMLTextWriter
• 6.3 DataSets & XML
• 6.4 Using the StringReader Class

• 7.0 COM Components from .NET
• 7.1 Migrating a VB6 COM Components
• 7.2 Using a COM Component from .NET

What is Microsoft .NET?: Level 6

• 1.0 Introduction ASP.NET
• 1.1 Overview of ASP.NET
• 1.2 Web Forms
• 1.3 Web Form Controls
• 1.4 Create a Web Form

• 2.0 Create a Web Login Form
• 2.1 Create an Employee Class
• 2.2 Creating Feedback Forms

• 3.0 Validation Controls
• 3.1 Overview of Validation Controls
• 3.2 Required Field Validation Control
• 3.3 Range Validation Control
• 3.4 Validation Summary Control
• 3.5 Compare Validation Control
• 3.6 Regular Expression Validation Control
• 3.7 Custom Validation Control

• 4.0 Web Form Data Binding
• 4.1 Binding to a Data Grid
• 4.2 Binding to a Combo Box
• 4.3 Filling a Combo Box Manually
• 4.4 Customer & Orders

• 5.0 Using the WebForm DataGrid
• 5.1 Formatting the DataGrid
• 5.2 Formatting Numeric Columns
• 5.3 Adding a Pager
• 5.4 Adding a Hyperlink

What is Microsoft .NET?: Level 7

• 1.0 Displaying Data Using the DataRepeater Control
• 1.1 How to Use the Repeater Control
• 1.2 Hooking Up the Data
• 1.3 More Advanced Repeater

• 2.0 State Management in ASP.NET
• 2.1 Overview of State Management
• 2.2 Using the Session Object
• 2.3 Using Cookies
• 2.4 Using a StateBag
• 2.5 Cookieless Sessions

• 2.6 Web Farm State Management
• 2.7 Automatic SQL Server State Management

• 3.0 Introduction to Web Services
• 3.1 Overview of Web Services

• 4.0 Creating & Using Web Services
• 4.1 Creating a Simple Web Service
• 4.2 Consuming a Web Service from WinForms
• 4.3 Consuming a Web Service from a Web Application
• 4.4 Product Web Service