Microsoft 70-518: Designing and Developing Windows Applications Using Microsoft .NET Framework 4

This course is specifically for participants to measure their knowledge and skills on making the appropriate job role decisions around Windows-based applications on the desktop using Windows Forms and WPF.

This course is taught from the perspective of having the experience associated to working on a team in a development environment using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2010 and the Microsoft .NET Framework 4 to develop desktop applications. We recommend participants have at least three years of experience developing applications, including one to two years of experience developing Windows-based applications. Having a thorough understanding of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Windows Forms technologies in the .NET Framework 3.5 and 4 is also strongly recommended. In addition participants for this course also are required to have the experience listed below:

• Designing Windows client applications that access data and services
• Designing data access layers and service layers for a Windows client application
• Planning and designing user interaction solutions
• The full development life cycle of Windows client applications
• Developing and deploying to multi-tier environments

This training course on .NET 4 Windows Applications prepares participants for the Microsoft Exam 70-518.

This course will provide all the skills and knowledge including design for the following areas:

• Loosely coupled layered architecture
• Service interaction design
• Security implementation design
• Interoperability with external systems
• Optimal processing
• Globalization and localization
• Choose the appropriate Windows Client technology
• UI layout and structure
• Application workflow
• Data presentation and input
• Presentation behaviour
• UI responsiveness
• Choose the appropriate data access strategy
• Data object model
• Data caching
• Offline storage and data synchronization
• Concurrent multi-user environment
• Analyze data services for optimization
• Define a client deployment strategy
• Plan a database deployment
• Solution update strategy
• Plan for n-tier deployment
• Error handling
• Evaluate and recommend a test strategy
• Diagnostics and monitoring strategy

Module 1

• Software Construction
• Problem Definition
• Requirements Development
• Construction Planning
• Software Architecture
• Detailed Design
• Coding and Debugging
• Unit Testing
• Integration Testing
• Integration
• System Testing
• Corrective Maintenance
• Section Review
• Test Our Knowledge

Module 2

• Designing Solution Layers
• Loosely Coupled Architecture
• Three Layer Architecture
• Using WCF Routing
• Understanding BizTalk Server
• Design Service Interaction
• Granularity of Services and Methods
• Protocols and Bindings
• Using REST
• Using Message and Data Contracts
• Using Custom SOAP Headers
• Data Integrity
• Versioning
• Hosting WCF Services
• Designing for Least Privilege
• Process Identity
• Impersonation and Delegation
• Designing Trusted Subsystems
• Federated Security
• Membership Roles
• Using Cryptography
• Interoperability and COM Objects
• Planning Long Running Processes
• Scaling Applications
• The Cloud
• Globalization
• Section Review
• Test Our Knowledge
• Thought Experiment

Module 3

• Presentation Layer
• Windows Forms
• Windows Presentation Foundation
• Between Windows Forms and WPF
• Presentation Pattern
• Design the UI Layout and Structure
• Logical Resources
• Design Application Workflow
• Using NavigationService
• Using PageFunction Objects
• Different Input Types
• Data Presentation and Input
• Design Presentation Behaviour
• Design for UI Responsiveness
• Section Review
• Test Our Knowledge
• Thought Experiment

Module 4

• The Data Layer
• Determining Data Access Strategies
• WCF Data Services
• Data Access Strategies
• Design the Data Object Model
• Design Data Caching
• Offline Data Storage
• The Sync Framework
• Database Design Considerations
• Multi-user Environment
• Concurrency
• Optimizing Performance
• Section Review
• Test Our Knowledge
• Thought Experiment

Module 5

• Handling Deployment
• Installation Methods
• Windows Installer
• Comment
• Xcopy
• Deploying the .NET Framework
• Deploying COM Objects
• Deploying Databases
• Publishing Databases
• Update Strategy
• N-Tier Deployment
• Section Review
• Test Our Knowledge
• Thought Experiment

Module 6

• Stabilization
• Exception Handling Strategy
• Handling Exceptions
• Collecting User Feedback
• Exception Classes
• Test Strategy
• Understanding UI Tests
• Performance Testing
• Code Coverage
• Section Review
• Test Our Knowledge
• Thought Experiment

Module 7

• Monitoring and Maintenance
• Providing Monitoring Information
• Event Logging and Tracing
• Using WMI
• Usage Reporting
• Diagnostic and Monitoring Strategy
• Profiling
• Section Review
• Test Our Knowledge
• Thought Experiment
• Course Close

Course Delivery:    Online