MS2571 Application Upgrade and Interoperability Using Visual Studio .NET (Visual Basic .NET)

Two days—Instructor-led

Introduction

This two-day instructor-led course provides students with the base knowledge required to upgrade applications to the Microsoft® .NET platform. It also provides students with the knowledge, skills, and guidelines required to upgrade Microsoft Visual Basic® applications to Microsoft Visual Basic .NET; facilitate interoperability between components created for the COM platform with components created for the .NET platform; upgrade ASP applications to ASP.NET. The primary tool and language used in this course are Microsoft Visual Studio® .NET and Visual Basic .NET.

Audience

This course is intended for experienced professional developers who have been building COM-based applications and are now moving to the .NET platform. The audience will be expected to be proficient using Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, and have a practical working knowledge of Visual Basic .NET.Additionally, Information Technology (IT) managers who are key decision makers for corporate technologies will benefit from some sections of this course.

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

· Determine whether an application will benefit from upgrading to the .NET platform, and if so, identify the strategy to be used for upgrading.

· Upgrade Visual Basic 6.0 applications to Visual Basic .NET.

· Use COM components from .NET Framework applications.

· Use .NET Framework components from COM applications.

· Use unmanaged DLL functions from .NET Framework applications.

· Upgrade ASP applications to Microsoft ASP.NET

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students must have: Experience developing COM-based applications in Visual Basic 6.0.

Practical working knowledge of Visual Basic .NET.

Practical working knowledge of the .NET Framework.

Microsoft Certified Professional Exams

There are no Microsoft Certified Exams associated with this course