What's New in Visual Studio 2005 Course Outline

Duration: 3 Days

Objectives
This course will introduce the new features of Visual Studio 2005 to existing Visual Studio developers. It will enable them to develop both Windows & Web applications. The programming languages used will be C# and Visual Basic. The course will also cover enhancements provided by SQL Server 2005.

Audience
This workshop is intended for experienced, professional software developers who are already skilled in building software using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET or Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003.

Prerequisites
Before attending this workshop, students must have:

  • Experience (at least 1 year) as a full-time developer using Visual Studio .NET or Visual Studio .NET 2003
  • Experience in developing applications in one or more of the following fields:
  • Web Application
  • Windows Forms Application
  • XML Web Services

Module 1: Productivity Enhancements Visual Studio 2005

  • Project Settings
  • Code Snippets
  • Refactor code in C#
  • Generics

Module 2: Building Managed Code for SQL Server 2005

  • CLR Integration with SQL 2005
  • Building managed SQL objects: stored procedures, functions & types
  • Integration benefits

Module 3: Building Data Components in Visual Studio 2005

  • The data source wizard
  • Creating a data component tier
  • Creating a presentation tier

Module 4: Building Presentation Layer Applications with Windows Forms

  • Enhanced design-time support
  • New controls and components
  • New data-binding model
  • Click-once deployment

Module 5: Building Presentation Layer Applications with ASP.NET 2.0

  • Data source controls
  • Master Pages
  • Site Navigation
  • Themes

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