M2548: Core Distributed Application Development with Visual Studio 2005

Prerequisites:

Before attending this workshop, students must:

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Be able to manage a solution environment using the Visual Studio 2005 Integrated development environment (IDE) and tools
- Understand the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 and the Common Language Runtime
- Be able to program an application by using a .NET Framework 2.0-compliant language
- Know how to make assemblies available to other applications
- Have a basic understanding of XML including XML declaration, elements, attributes, and namespaces
- Have a basic understanding of application domains
- Have a basic understanding of delegates and events
- Have a basic understanding of threads

Course Description:

This three-day instructor-led workshop provides students with the knowledge and skills to develop distributed applications by using the Microsoft( .NET Framework and Microsoft Visual Studio( 2005. The workshop focuses on building distributed applications by using Web services, remoting, Microsoft Message Queuing, and serviced components.

This workshop is intended for corporate and Independent software vendor application developers who have a desire to learn more about specific technology areas in distributed application development.

Elements of this syllabus are subject to change.

This course includes the following modules:

Building and Consuming a Simple XML Web Service

• Technical Context of Web Services
• Components of Web Service Technology

Configuring and Customizing a Web Service

• XML Serialization
• How to Use Complex Data Types in Web Services
• How to Use Attributes to Control Serialization
• How to Use Service Configuration Attributes
• Configuration Files

Calling Web Methods Asynchronously

• The Need for Asynchronous Calls
• Options for Making Asynchronous Calls
• One-Way Methods

Building a Remoting Client and Server

• Technical Context of Remoting
• Remoting Servers and Clients
• Important Components of Remoting

Creating and Serializing Remotable Types

• Marshal by Value
• Marshal by Reference
• Version Compatibility for Remotable Types
• Generic Classes

Performing Remoting Operations Asynchronously

• Asynchronous Methods
• Calling Remote Methods Asynchronously
• One-Way Methods
• Using Events in Remoting Applications

Managing the Lifetime of Remote Objects

• Life Cycle of Remote Objects
• Lifetime Sponsors
• Lease Properties
• Leases and Exception Handling

Sending and Receiving Messages by Using Message Queuing

• Understanding Message Queuing
• Creating a Message Queue and Sending a Message
• Receiving a Message and Posting a Response
• Using IIS with Message Queuing

Creating and Consuming Serviced Components

• COM+ Services
• Implementing a Serviced Component
• Registering a Serviced Component
• Instantiating a Serviced Component