Architecting Desktop Applications with 2.0 – 15 Free Video Tutorials

• smart client development
• N-tier design

112 minutes 8/23/05

Common design patterns for sophisticated graphical user interface-based applications include:
• the Model-View-Controller pattern
• the User Interface Process block from Microsoft

111 minutes 9/06/2005

• The architecture and design of dynamic and configurable applications
• proper use of .NET configuration files
• storing connection strings and user settings
• the Microsoft patterns & practices Enterprise Library Configuration Application Block
• building applications whose user interface is dynamically configurable

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96 minutes 9/27/05

• Designing secure desktop applications
• authentication
• authorization
• securing configuration and user settings
• the Microsoft patterns & practices Enterprise Library Security Application Block

. 113 minutes 10/11/05

• Designing the business tier
• Component-based, Scalable, Logical Architecture.NET
• an open-source programming framework
• Object Role Modeling

107 minutes 10/25/05

• design of the Data Access tier
• Microsoft patterns & practices Data Access Application Block
• new features in Microsoft ADO.NET 2.0
• how to use Object Role Modeling tools to create data access tiers automatically

106 minutes 11/08/05

• Best practices for developing N-tier applications
• exception handling
• logging
• instrumentation and documentation
• Instrumentation Application Blocks from the Microsoft patterns & practices team

111 minutes 11/22/05

• Design and creation of .NET components
• Strong naming
• versioning
• pluggable components

114 minutes 12/6/05

• How to take advantage of the build, analysis and testing tools available in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005

99 minutes 12/20/05

• the theory behind multithreading
• ways to use multithreading safely within your applications

118 minutes 1/11/06

• the use of .NET remote access to create true smart client applications
• the various ways to configure remote access
• how remote access may change your class designs
• marshal-by-value objects versus marshal-by-reference objects
• caching

111 minutes 1/25/07

• The use of Web services as an alternative to remote access in creating true smart client applications
• the pros and cons of Web services
• marshal-by-value objects versus marshal-by-reference objects
• the future of Web services with the Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation set of technologies for connected applications

119 minutes 2/8/06

• Security issues raised by distributed applications
• authentication
• authorization
• encryption

83 minutes 2/22/06

• Ins and outs of ClickOnce
• the no-touch deployment model in .NET 2.0

90 minutes 3/8/06

Some of the principles behind the agile software development process include:
• customer-driven design
• frequent builds
• unit testing
• simplicity in design

60 minutes 3/22/06