Advanced Visual Basic.Net Professional Training Series

In this course you will learn advanced Visual Basic .NET topics including: asynchronous programming, WMI, serialization, reading and writing XML and more!

Entire course includes

• 7 CDs
• Over 11 hours of instruction
• Over 550 pages of courseware on CD-ROM
• Step-by-step hands-on-labs
• Sample code

YOur Trainer

Your Instructor Ken Getz is a senior consultant with MCW Technologies and splits his time between programming, writing, and training. He specializes in tools and applications written in Visual Studio .NET and Visual Basic. Ken has had a long relationship with Application Developer's Training Company (www.appdev.com), and has been training and writing courseware for AppDev for almost ten years. Most recently, he has written and presented training courses for AppDev's Professional Training via CD-ROM series, including VB.NET, ASP.NET, ADO.NET (all with co-authors Mary Chipman and Andy Baron), VB6, VB5, and Access 2000/97 (with co-author Paul Litwin). Ken is also co-author of several best-selling books, including Access 2002 Developer's Handbooks (with Paul Litwin and Mike Gunderloy (Sybex)), Access Cookbook (with Andy Baron and Paul Litwin (O'Reilly)), VBA Developer's Handbook (with Mike Gilbert (Sybex)), and ASP.NET Developer's JumpStart (with Paul D. Sheriff (Addison-Wesley)). Ken is a frequent speaker at technical conferences and has spoken often at Microsoft's Tech-Ed conference. Ken's also a technical editor for Access-VB-SQL Advisor magazine and a columnist for Informant Publications' asp.netPRO magazine.

Course Outlines

Delegates and Events

• Motivating Delegates
  
  
• Introducing Delegates
  
  
• Working with Events
  
  

Asynchronous Programming in VB.NET

• Processes and Threads
  
  
• Using Delegates
  
  
• Using the Thread Pool Directly
  
  

Timers and Threads

• Using .NET Timers
  
  
• Creating Your Own Threads
  
  

Filling the .NET Gaps with WMI

• Introducing WMI
  
  
• Getting Started with WMI
  
  
• WMI Queries, Properties, and Methods
  
  
• WMI Server Explorer Extensions
  
  

WMI Events and Asynchronous Handling

• Creating WMI Event Handlers
  
  
• Working with WMI Asynchronously
  
  
• WMI Server Explorer Extensions and Events
  
  

Serialization

• Introducing Serialization
  
  
• Serializing Complex Objects
  
  
• Customizing the Serialization Process
  
  

Attributes and Reflection

• Introducing Attributes
  
  
• Creating and Using Custom Attributes
  
  
• Introducing Reflection
  
  
• Using Reflection to Perform Late Binding
  
  

Printers and Printing

• The PrintDocument Class
  
  
• The PageSettings Class
  
  
• The PrinterSettings Class
  
  
• Working with Print-Related Controls
  
  
• A More Complex Report
  
  

Reading and Writing XML

• Getting Started
  
  
• Reading XML Data
  
  
• Working with Nodes
  
  
• Creating and Modifying XML
  
  
• Dealing with Errors
  
  

Creating Custom Windows Controls

• Control Creation in Windows Forms
  
  
• Inheriting from an Existing Control
  
  
• Drawing Your Own Custom Controls
  
  
• Creating Composite Controls