VB.NET Programming Training Course available throughout the North East including Newcastle, Durham, Washington, Leeds, Middlesbrough, Sunderland, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear and Northumberland

Course VB.NET Programming Language

Course Duration5 Days
Course Options
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Overview

Microsoft's .NET Framework presents developers with unprecedented opportunities. From web applications to desktop and mobile platform applications - all can be built with equal ease, using substantially the same skill-set. But to make the most of this potential, developers must have a thorough grasp of core language skills and OO programming concepts.

It concentrates on the programming language itself, to prepare delegates fully in readiness for exploring the .NET Framework. No Object-Orientated knowledge is assumed - the course provides a suitable OO primer. From basic procedural syntax to sophisticated object-oriented programming techniques, delegates will learn how to write .NET applications with code that is robust and maintainable.

The course is presented as a mixture of lectures, demos and hands-on exercises. Practical sessions follow all main topics, designed to reinforce the points covered. Additional information is provided in appendices to extend the learning experience after the course has been completed.

Prerequisites

- Those delegates who are attending via either virtual or extended classroom will be required to provide either dual monitors or single monitor plus a tablet device.
- This is a course for developers
- Delegates must understand the fundamentals of programming

Objectives

- Write code that includes sequence, selection and iteration constructs
- Create and use classes and structures (types), including fields, properties and methods
- Use Private, Friend, Protected and Public visibility modifiers
- Use exception-handling to create robust applications
- Create derived classes that inherit from custom-written or .NET Framework classes
- Create interfaces and apply techniques of polymorphism effectively and appropriately
- Work with generic types
- Leverage the power of VB.NET features
- Use delegates
- Understand the event handling paradigm
- Use lambda expressions in code
- Use LINQ (Language Integrated Query)
- Efficiently manage resources

Target Audience

- This intensive course is intended for developers who will use VB.NET to write .NET Framework applications and who are relatively new to the VB.NET programming language.

What's included

- For courses held on our premises, complimentary tea, coffee and biscuits are available. Lunch is not provided, however, there is a wide variety of eateries within a short walk of the centre.
- Comprehensive course materials and exercises

Course Content

- Key Topics
  MODULE 1: INTRODUCTION TO OBJECT ORIENTATION
  This ensures all delegates have a grounding in the principles of Object Orientation.
  
  MODULE 2: OO AND VB.NET
  Get started on how VB.NET implements Object Orientation
  
  MODULE 3: INTRODUCTION TO .NET, VISUAL STUDIO & VB.NET
  The .NET Framework; The Common Language Runtime; The Common Type System
  VB.NET Features; Introduction to namespaces and assemblies
  Get to know your way around Visual Studio
  
  MODULE 4: SYNTAX I
  Procedures and statements; Data types; Declaring variables; Assignments
  Conversion; Arithmetic and other operators
  Flow of control constructs
  Passing parameters by value, by reference, named and optional parameters
  
  MODULE 5: SYNTAX 2
  Type concepts; Classes; Reference types
  Fields, properties and methods
  Accessibility modifiers
  Object initialisation, Constructors and Constructor chaining
  Instance members; Keyword 'Me'
  Enumerated types
  Arrays
  
  MODULE 6: COLLECTIONS
  Generic Collections
  Iterating collections
  Indexers
  
  MODULE 7: INHERITANCE & POLYMORPHISM
  Concept of inheritance; Substitutability; Extending a simple class
  'Overridable', 'Overrides' and 'NotOverridable' modifiers
  Polymorphism
  Abstract classes (MustInherit)
  Upcasting and safe downcasting
  
  MODULE 8: INTERFACES
  Polymorphism with interfaces
  Multiple interfaces
  
  MODULE 9: DELEGATES AND LAMBDAS
  Delegates explained
  Working with delegates
  Creating your own delegate types
  The evolution of Lambdas
  
  MODULE 10: GENERIC DELEGATES
  Using the framework-supplied generic delegates
  
  MODULE 11: LINQ
  The language features behind LINQ
  The LINQ API and query pattern
  Grouping and Joins
  
  MODULE 12: HANDLING EXCEPTIONS
  Errors vs. Exceptions
  The 'try', 'catch', 'finally' paradigm
  Using 'throw'
  Creating your own exceptions
  
  MODULE 13: CONSUMING EVENTS
  Understanding events in .NET
  Writing event handlers
  
  MODULE 14: PRODUCING EVENTS
  The event conventions
  Raising custom events
  
  MODULE 15: GARBAGE COLLECTION
  Garbage collection and its impact
  Finalizers; The 'Dispose' pattern; IDisposable
  The 'using' statement
  
  MODULE 16: REVERSE ENGINEER
  At the end of the course we reverse-engineer the resultant code and compare the results to the Class Diagram we produced near the beginning of the course.
  
  MODULE 17: THE WAY AHEAD
  Review
  Follow-on courses
  
  APPENDIX MODULE A: LINQ TO XML
  Producing and consuming XML using LINQ

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