Programming with XML in the Microsoft .NET Framework Training

Programming with XML in the Microsoft .NET Framework - VB Training Package Includes

• 5 CD-ROMs featuring live instructor-led classroom sessions with full audio, video and demonstration components
• Printable courseware
• Step-by-step hands-on-labs
• Comprehensive, understandable, and reusable as reference material
• Focused on practical solutions to real-world development problems
• 2 Microsoft Authorized MeasureUp Exam Simulations
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Course Introduction

The World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) XML technology is a powerful new tool in building distributed applications. Microsoft's .NET Framework embraces XML and uses it in everything from configuration files to XML Web Services. As a .NET developer it is important to become familiar with how .NET exposes functionality to work with XML Data. This course teaches developers how to program with XML in the Microsoft® .NET Framework in order to build Microsoft Windows or Web-based integrated applications that are easier to build, scalable, and flexible.

This course is a requirement for the following Exam(s) :

• MCSD Exam 70–310: Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework
• MCSD Exam 70–320: Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Microsoft Visual C# and the Microsoft .NET Framework

List of Course Features

Programming with XML in the Microsoft .NET Framework - VB Course Contents
 

Level 1

XML in the .Net Framework

1.1 XML Classes
1.2 MSXML 4.0 vs .Net
Lab - Using the XML Editor

Parsing XML

2.1 XML Reader Class
2.2 Streams
2.3 Using XML Text Reader
2.4 XML Node Type
2.5 Demo XML Text Reader
2.6 Demo XML Exception
2.7 Review
Lab - Using an XML Text Reader

Validating XML

3.1 Demo XML Validating Reader
3.2 Resolve External Resources
3.3 Review
Lab - Using an XML Validating Reader

Level 2

Writing XML

1.1 Process of Writing XML
1.2 Demo Writing XML
1.3 Writing an Image
1.4 Name Spaces
1.5 Demo Using Name Spaces
1.6 Formatting XML
1.7 Demo Formatting XML
1.8 Review
Lab - Using an XML Text Writer

Querying XML

2.1 Demo X Path Query
2.2 Creating and Navigating a Document Cache
2.3 X Path Expression
2.4 Demo X Path Navigator
2.5 Review
Lab - Navigating an X Path Document

Level 3

Using Cached XML

1.1 Loading a DOM from an XML Source
1.2 XML Node Class
1.3 Demo XML Doc Navigation
1.4 Create an Element Node
1.5 Demo Add Element
1.6 Navigating to an Existing Node
1.7 Demo Modify and Delete Elements
1.8 Review
Lab - Using an AML Document

Level 4

Transforming XML

1.1 XSLT
1.2 Demo XSLT
1.3 XSL Transform Class
1.4 Web Applications
1.5 How to Pass Arguments to XSLT Style Sheets
1.6 Extension Objects
1.7 Review
Lab - Transforming an XML Document

Level 5

Serializing Objects as XML

1.1 Demo Using XSD
1.2 Serializing Objects Using XML Serializer
1.3 Serialization Attributes
1.4 Demo Formatting Results In XML
1.5 Review
1.6 Final Comments
Lab - Using an XML Serializer