AUDIENCE:   This course is designed for those who have some experience in programming in Visual Basic, particularly VB6 and are wishing to take advantage of the features available in VB.net 2003 and 2005 PREREQUISITES:   Previous programming experience, ideally in VB6. DURATION:   5 days. Hands on. OBJECTIVES:   This course aims to introduce the development environment, enhanced capabilities, concepts and syntax changes in VB.net COURSE CONTENT:   Introduction System Requirements Changes in VB.NET Installation of VB.NET Requirements of the Environment Preparation for Installation An Initial Program .NET Framework The NET Framework - An Overview Key Design Goals Multiple Language Integration and Support A Common Type System Namespaces Structure of an Application in the NET Framework Deployment and Execution .NET Class Framework? Programmatic Interfaces IDE and Language Features A Tour of the IDE Windows Form Designer Code New IDE Features Main Windows Language and Syntax Changes Windows UI Capabilities Windows Forms Architecture New Control Properties Summary of Important Controls Visual Inheritance in Windows Forms GDI+ Custom Windows Forms Controls Object-Oriented Capabilities Merger of Object- and Component-Oriented Concepts Object Orientation Implementation Object Lifecycle Inheritance Shared or Class Members Events Interfaces Interacting with Objects Early vs. Late Binding Cross-Language Inheritance Visual Inheritance Web Capabilities Interface Layer Summary of Browser Features Overview of Web Forms ASP.NET as the Run-Time Engine Server Controls Custom Web Form Controls An Application Using Web Forms Overview of Web Services SOAP Protocol Data Access ADO.NET What is a DataSet? Data Flow Overview for ADO.NET Managed Providers ADO Managed Provider SQL Managed Provider XML through ADO.NET XML through the DOM Advanced Topics Middle-Tier Components Class Libraries and DLLs Web Services Microsoft Message Queue (WSWQ) .NET Threading Printing Model Deployment in .NET Windows NT/Win2K Services Monitoring the File System Interoperability and Migration COM/DCOM/COM+ Interoperability Invoking COM Components from .NET ADO from VB.NET ActiveX Controls from Windows Forms DCOM Calling Windows APIs