Overview

The goal of this course is to provide Microsoft Visual Basic developers with the knowledge and skills needed to develop Microsoft .NET-based applications by using Visual Basic .NET. Visual Basic .NET is a significant upgrade to Visual Basic and incorporates many new features and framework goals of the .NET architecture. These changes will allow Visual Basic developers to create enterprise applications for the .NET Platform and to create more traditional Visual Basic applications that can take advantage of the enhancements to the language

Duration

5 Days

Target Audience

This course is intended primarily for developers who use Visual Basic 4.0 or later as their primary language, who use Microsoft technologies such as Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) and Active Server Pages (ASP) to develop applications, and who plan to use Visual Basic .NET for future application development.

Topics

Overview of the Microsoft .NET Platform .
Development Environment Features
Language and Syntax Enhancements
Object-Oriented Programming in Visual Basic .NET
Using Windows Forms
Building Web Applications
Using ADO.NET
Developing Components in Visual Basic .NET
Deploying Applications
Upgrading to Visual Basic

A more comprehensive course outline is available in the Course Download section, to the right of this page.

MTC serves the whole of the North East region, including, Sunderland, Newcastle, Durham Teesside, Tyne and Wear, Cumbria, Northumberland, Darlington, North Yorkshire, Carlisle, Hartlepool. In addition MTC supports many clients nationally within the UK.