Advanced .Net Training

Visual Studio .Net Online Training

Course Content:

Visual Studio 2010

• VS 2010 Start Page
• Code Analysis
• Advanced Debugging
• Unit Tests
• Overview of the Visual Studio 2010 Profiler

Memory Management (GC)

• Overview of managed garbage collection (tracing GC)
• GC flavors: Workstation, server, concurrent, background
• Generations
• Controlling the garbage collector (System.GC)
• Managed memory leaks
• Finalization and the Dispose pattern
• Weak references
• LAB: WeakTimer

Streams and File I/O

• Streams as data flow mechanisms
• File streams
• Stream readers/writers
• The File class
• LAB: Word Count

Serialization

• The need for serialization (communication, logging, etc.)
• Marking a type for serialization
• Serialization with BinaryFormatter
• Deserialization with BinaryFormatter
• Controlling serialization with [NotSerialized]
• Custom serialization with ISerializable
• Overview of XML serialization and Data Contract serialization

Application Domains

• The need for AppDomains
• Creating AppDomains
• Executing code in an AppDomain
• Unloading an AppDomain
• AppDomain boundaries – serialization (MBV), by-reference passing (MBR)
• .NET Remoting with AppDomains (MBR)
• LAB: Plugin framework with AppDomains, dynamic loading and unloading

Advanced Tips and Tricks

• Improving startup performance by using NGEN
• Dynamically binding to delegates and events
• Eliminating the redundant null check when invoking events
• Asynchronously invoking delegates and events
• Reflection and generics
• Implementation of generics at runtime
• Diagnosing assembly loading problems and load contexts

Overview of other .NET technologies

• ADO.NET
• System.Transactions
• WCF
• WPF
• WF
• LINQ