Introduction to Visual Basic 2008 Training (5 days)

Introduction to VB.NET 2008 Course Overview

In this Visual Basic 2008 training course, students use Visual Studio 2008 to explore the Visual Basic 2008 language. The course starts with a quick overview of the .NET platform, examining assemblies, Microsoft Intermediate Language, Visual Studio profiles, XML comments, IntelliSense, and debugging. From there, you will learn all the Visual Basic 2008 language features that you must internalize in order to create full-featured Web or Windows applications that make best use of the .NET 3.5 platform.

You will learn about data types, variables, and operators, along with all the important flow control structures. You'll work through several examples demonstrating the power of the .NET 3.5 Framework, and dig into creating and consuming your own classes and objects. The course moves on to working with data structures, such as arrays and collection classes, before finishing up with discussions of generics, handling exceptions and working with delegates and events. By the end of this course, you will understand the important basic concepts that will allow you to start creating .NET applications.

Introduction to VB.NET 2008 Course Goals

• Learn to build and debug applications using Visual Studio 2008.
• Learn to create and use variables, operators, and data types.
• Learn to find and use the classes you need within the .NET Framework.
• Learn to manage flow control within your code, branching and looping as needed.
• Learn to create and consume classes and objects.
• Learn to add and consume properties and methods in your classes.
• Make use of .NET's object-oriented features, such as overloading, inheritance and interfaces.
• Learn to store, retrieve, and manipulate multiple values using arrays.
• Learn to work with .NET generics.
• Learn to make best use of the .NET Framework's support for collection classes.
• Learn to handle exceptions in your code.
• Learn to create and use delegates, and understand how they relate to events (if time allows).

Introduction to VB.NET 2008 Course Prerequisites

Experience in the following areas would be beneficial.

• Visual Basic or VBScript
• General Programming Experience

Introduction to VB.NET 2008 Course Outline

1. Getting Started with .NET
   1. Thinking about .NET
   2. Using Visual Studio 2008
   3. Debugging Your Code and Handling Exceptions
   4. Perspectives and Exception Handling
   5. Getting Started with Exception Handling
   6. Catching Specific Exceptions
   7. Raising Errors
   8. Running Code Unconditionally
   9. Creating Exception Classes
2. Data Types and Variables
   1. Introducing Variables and Data Types
   2. Working with Variables and Data Types
   3. Perspectives and Exception Handling
   4. Getting Started with Exception Handling
   5. Catching Specific Exceptions
   6. Raising Errors
   7. Running Code Unconditionally
   8. Creating Exception Classes
3. Using the .NET Framework
   1. Using .NET Framework Classes
   2. Working with Strings
   3. Working with Dates and Times
   4. The My Namespace
   5. Perspectives and Exception Handling
   6. Getting Started with Exception Handling
   7. Catching Specific Exceptions
   8. Raising Errors
   9. Running Code Unconditionally
   10. Creating Exception Classes
4. Branching and Flow Control
   1. Conditional Branching
   2. Repeating Code Blocks
   3. Unconditional Branching
   4. Perspectives and Exception Handling
   5. Getting Started with Exception Handling
   6. Catching Specific Exceptions
   7. Raising Errors
   8. Running Code Unconditionally
   9. Creating Exception Classes
5. Classes and Objects
   1. Introducing Objects and Classes
   2. Creating Your Own Class
   3. Working with Classes
   4. Perspectives and Exception Handling
   5. Getting Started with Exception Handling
   6. Catching Specific Exceptions
   7. Raising Errors
   8. Running Code Unconditionally
   9. Creating Exception Classes
6. Properties and Methods
   1. Working with Properties
   2. Working with Methods
   3. Perspectives and Exception Handling
   4. Getting Started with Exception Handling
   5. Catching Specific Exceptions
   6. Raising Errors
   7. Running Code Unconditionally
   8. Creating Exception Classes
7. Object-Oriented Techniques
   1. Inheritance
   2. Interfaces
   3. Organizing Classes
   4. Perspectives and Exception Handling
   5. Getting Started with Exception Handling
   6. Catching Specific Exceptions
   7. Raising Errors
   8. Running Code Unconditionally
   9. Creating Exception Classes
8. Working with Arrays
   1. Introducing Arrays
   2. Manipulating Arrays
   3. Perspectives and Exception Handling
   4. Getting Started with Exception Handling
   5. Catching Specific Exceptions
   6. Raising Errors
   7. Running Code Unconditionally
   8. Creating Exception Classes
9. Delegates and Events (if time allows)
   1. Motivating Delegates
   2. Introducing Delegates
   3. Working with Events
   4. Perspectives and Exception Handling
   5. Getting Started with Exception Handling
   6. Catching Specific Exceptions
   7. Raising Errors
   8. Running Code Unconditionally
   9. Creating Exception Classes
10. Generics (if time allows)
    1. Introducing Generics
    2. Generics and Arrays
    3. Generic Interfaces
    4. Generic Constraints
    5. Generics and Lists
    6. Perspectives and Exception Handling
    7. Getting Started with Exception Handling
    8. Catching Specific Exceptions
    9. Raising Errors
    10. Running Code Unconditionally
    11. Creating Exception Classes

Introduction to VB.NET 2008 Course Materials

Each student will receive a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the programming examples.

Introduction to VB.NET 2008 Course Technical Requirements and Setup Instructions

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