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Visual Studio 2008 Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist MCTS: .NET Framework 3.5, Windows Communication Foundation Applications

The Microsoft Developer Certification for creating, integrating, configuring and deploying WCF Applications

Course Contents:

Stage 1: Software Programming Fundamentals

Stage 2: Programming Best Practices

Stage 3: Software Development Principles

Stage 4: Microsoft Exam 70-536 MCTS: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 - Application Development Foundation

Stage 5: Microsoft Exam 70-503 MCTS: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 – Windows Communication Foundation Application Development

Course Code:

VSMCF-6

Course Duration:

12 months

Typical Study Hours:

40 - 50 hours

Course Fees:

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Study Prerequisite:

Computer programming certifications or relevant industry experience.

Additional Information for Stage 1:

• Software Programming Fundamentals:
  • Getting Started
  • Designing Programs

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Additional Information for Stage 2:

• Programming Best Practices:
  • Programming Techniques and Strategies
  • General Coding Best Practices
  • Object-oriented Coding Best Practices
  • Maintaining Quality Code

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Additional Information for Stage 3:

Software Development Principles:

• Developing a User-Centred Software Design Approach
  • Introducing User-Centered Design
  • Developing an Application Using User-Centered Design
  • The Iterative Process in User-Centered Design
  • Practical Examples of User-Centered Design

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Additional Information for Stage 4:

Microsoft Exam 70-536 MCTS: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 - Application Development Foundation

• Visual Basic: System Types and Collections
  • Recognise basic object-oriented programming procedures in Visual Basic
  • Identify the variables in Visual Basic
  • Create types
  • Create classes
  • Create types and classes in a given scenario
  • Recognise the interfaces in the System namespace
  • Recognise the interfaces in the System.Collections namespace
  • Use classes in the System.Collections namespace
  • Identify the classes in the System.Collections namespace
  • Identify the classes that provide the abstract base class
  • Use interfaces and classes in a given scenario
  • Create generic types
  • Create generic interfaces
  • Create generic classes
  • Create generic enumerators
  • Create generics

• Visual Basic: Serialisation and I/O
  • Serialise an object in Visual Basic
  • Distinguish between serialisation interfaces
  • Use the SerialisationInfo classes
  • Use XMLserialisation and deserialisation
  • Serialise and deserialise an object in binary format
  • Serialise and deserialise an object in SOAP format
  • Use serialisation in a given scenario
  • Use the FileStream class
  • Distinguish between the most common file handling classes in the System.IO namespace
  • Match the classes to examples of their file management tasks
  • Implement isolated storage
  • Use stream, isolated storage, and file management classes in a given scenario
  • Determine how to improve application performance using serialisation and I/O

• Visual Basic: Customised Programming
  • Integrate a COM object into .NET
  • Use data marshalling
  • Use DLL functions
  • Use System.Reflection
  • Use System.Reflection.Emit
  • Perform interoperation and reflection in a given scenario
  • Use GDI+ to draw a shape
  • Use GDI+ to display images
  • Manipulate text in an application
  • Draw and manipulate text in Visual Basic
  • Determine how to customise a Visual Basic application
  • Develop e-mail functionality in an application
  • Recognise how to configure CultureInfo
  • Recognise how to configure NumberFormatInfo
  • Recognise how to configure RegionInfo
  • Configure DateTimeFormatInfo
  • Develop e-mail capabilities in an application
  • Localise and application

• Visual Basic: Security
  • Implement evidence-based security
  • Implement role-based security
  • Implement evidence-based security in a given scenario
  • Implement role-based security in a given scenario
  • Implement file security
  • Implement authentication
  • Implement permissions using the System.Security namespace
  • Implement permissions using the System.Security.Permissions namespace in a given scenario
  • Use the command-line to implement permissions
  • Implement file and code access security permissions in a given scenario
  • Implement symmetric cryptography
  • Implement asymmetric cryptography in a given scenario
  • Use hash algorithms
  • Use the DPAPI
  • Use cryptography in a given scenario

• Visual Basic: Threading, Service Processing, and Application Domains
  • Implement threading
  • Use the WaitHandle class
  • Use the EventWaitHandle class
  • Use the ReaderWriterLock class
  • Use special classes
  • Use Thread Timers
  • Recognise the features of the ThreadState and ThreadPriority enumerations
  • Develop threads in Visual Basic
  • Create a Windows Service
  • Identify the characteristics of Windows Services
  • Install and run a Windows Service
  • Use the ServiceBase class
  • Use the ServiceController class
  • Use the ServiceInstaller class
  • Implement Windows Services in a given scenario
  • Configure application domains
  • Configure an application domain in a given scenario
  • Determine how to improve system operation using threading, service processing, and application domains

• Visual Basic: Diagnostics and Management
  • Recognise how to use configuration file and section classes
  • Recognise how to use configuration elements interfaces
  • Program custom installers for components
  • Configure .NET applications for deployment
  • Program configuration data
  • Program custom installers
  • Use event logs
  • Use system processes
  • Manage event logs and system processes
  • Determine how to manage configuration, custom installation, and system processes.
  • Debug an application
  • Trace an application
  • Describe management events
  • Retrieve system information
  • Debug an application
  • Manage system information

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Additional Information for Stage 5:

Microsoft Exam 70-503 MCTS: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 – Windows Communication Foundation Application Development

• Getting Started with WCF
  • Recognise the main capabilities of WCF as a single software solution for distributed applications
  • Recognise the architecture of WCF
  • Create and host a basic WCF service using only code
  • Create and host a basic WCF service using code and configuration files
  • Configure a WCF client
  • Use the WCF Service Configuration Editor to create and edit service configuration files
  • Create a WCF service
  • Create a WCF client
  • Use the WCF Service Configuration Editor to create a service configuration file
  • Use IIS to host a WCF service
  • Use WAS to host a WCF service
  • Use self-hosting in a managed Windows service
  • Host more than one service in a single process
  • Host a WCF service in IIS 7
  • Use a Windows service as a WCF host
  • Implement a basic WCF application

• Securing and Managing a WCF Application
• Configure transport-level security
• Configure message-level security
• Configure client authorisation
• Configure client impersonation and security auditing
• Integrate WCF and ASP.NET
• Configure ASP.NET role-based authorisation for a WCF application
• Configure forms authentication
• Implement WCF security
• Configure tracing and logging
• Configure performance counters and WMI
• Use the Service Configuration Editor and the Service Trace Viewer
• Manage WCF exception handling
• Perform WCF application management tasks

• WCF Contracts, Behaviors, and Data Management
• Implement event-based asynchronous pattern for a client and a service
• Implement one-way operations and a duplex contract
• Manage multiple contracts and endpoints, and modify WSDL names
• Create data contracts
• Implement typed message contracts
• Implement untyped message contracts
• Code an asynchronous WCF client
• Define a class hierarchy
• Define a typed message contract
• Recognise how channels work in WCF
• Specify bindings in WCF
• Use the XML Serialiser to serialise data
• Use MTOM encoding to transmit large amounts of data over a network
• Select the appropriate binding for given scenarios
• Use the XMLSerialiser class to serialise data
• Use MTOM to stream large amounts of data over a network
• Implement WCF service behaviors
• Implement a transaction
• Implement a message inspector with a custom behavior
• Configure service behaviors
• Configure a transaction
• Configure a message inspector with a custom behavior
• Work with WCF contracts, behaviors, and data management

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