A. How a .NET program executes
B. CLR (Common Language Runtime) and Framework Class Library
C. Comparison of the CLR to Java's JVM
D. In 2.0, the registry is no longer used to indicate where the assemblies reside. Instead, a technique that is similar to the PATH verb in DOS is used.
E. The system searches in this order:
..1) the GAC,
..2) in any places indicated by the config file, and
..3) the folder where the executable for the VB program resides is searched.

02/03/2004 Duration: 2 hours and 4 minutes

A. When we create an object, we are really just creating a variable that has a reference to an object.
B. Comparison of which types in .NET are value types and which are object.
C. garbage collection

02/10/2004 Duration: 1 hour and 58 minutes

A. Classes
B. Class Libraries

02/17/2004 Duration: 1 hour and 53 minutes

A. GUI

02/26/2004 Duration: 1 hour and 21 minutes

A. Exception handling;
B. Application and class design with exceptions;
C. Assertions;
D. Debugging

03/02/2004 Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes

A. Basic relational database design;
B. Local databases vs. database servers;
C. Structured Query Language;
D. Stored procedures

03/16/2004 Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes

A. Architecture of ADO.NET;
B. ExecuteReader;
C. ExecuteScalar;
D. ExecuteNonquery;
E. DataSets

3/23/2004 Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes

A. Contract-based programming and design reuse;
B. Example redesigned data access class with interfaces & factory methods;
C. Implementing interfaces sorting, serialization;
D. More examples: interfaces in the Framework Class Library;
E. Creating your own interfaces

3/31/2004 Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes

A. Implementation and design reuse;
B. Example: custom, type-safe collection class;
C. Other examples: WinForms hierarchy, .NET CTS, data structure classes;
D. Creating your own inheritance hierarchy business objects

4/06/2004 Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes

A. Design decisions;
B. Leave connection open vs. open/close, and the Finalization pattern;
C. Exception handling, Try-Catch-Finally pattern, custom exception class hierarchy;
D. Abstract Factory pattern;
E. Transactions;
F. Data vs. business objects;
G. Multi-tier design

4/15/2004 Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes

A. Assemblies, namespaces, DLLs;
B. Assembly resolution;
C. Strong names, version-ing;
D. Deployment;
E. Obfuscation

4/20/2004 Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes

A. Tracing;
B. Configuration files (read-only!);
C. User preferences via object serialization, XML file, or per user settings in .NET;
D. Application designs – Traditional single-user applications, Remote: client-server & multi-tier, Loosely-coupled event & delegate driven;
E. Deployment options: Traditional install-driven, Zero-touch deployment: via IE & App loader

4/28/2004 Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes

A. Remote procedure calls, proxy-stub architecture;
B. Reflection: dynamic loading, instantiation & execution;
C. Remoting;
D. Web services;
E. WebForms

5/4/2004 Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes

A. When to use concurrent programming techniques;
B. Delegates;
C. Pure multi-threading;
D. Caution – multi-threading is complicated

5/11/2004 Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes

A. Application blocks;
B. Best practices;
C. Design patterns;
D. UML;
E. Testing, testing, testing;
F. Tools CVS, Nunit, NMake;
G. Working with Visual Studio® on a large, component-based project;
H. eXtreme Programming (XP)

5/18/2004 Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes