Visual C# 2005 Advanced Topics

4 day course

In this course you'll learn about important development topics that aren't normally covered in a beginning or intermediate Windows application programming course. Starting with saving objects to a stream using .NET Serialization and creating and displaying reports, you'll work through crucial topics such as attributes and reflection, programming XML using the XmlDocument class, and the XmlReader/XmlWriter classes, creating Windows Services, and drawing your own user interfaces using the System.Drawing namespace. You'll see how to handle vital distribution issues, learning about application security, versioning, and deployment. You'll dig deeper into working with the most complex of Visual Studio's built-in controls, the DataGridView control, extending Visual Studio 2005, interacting with printers to print documents, and the beginning stages of building mobile applications. You're certain to find many topics here that will extend your knowledge, your capabilities, and your value as a developer.

Overview of Course Topics:
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• Serialization
• Creating and Displaying Reports
• Filling the .NET Gaps with WMI
• WMI Events and Asynchronous Handling
• Examining the DataGridViewControl
• Extending Visual Studio 2005
• Creating Rich User Interfaces with GDI
• Handling Versioning Issues
• Creating Windows Services
• Building Mobile Applications
• Reading and Writing XML Using XML DOM
• Expert XML
• Printers and Printing
• Securing Windows Applications
• Building Setup Applications
• Attributes and Reflection