Architecting Desktop Applications with 2.0 – 15 Free Video Tutorials

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found a good way“Architecting Modern Desktop Applications in .NET” is a 15-part 25+ hour free video tutorial series that is appropriate for the intermediate or advanced Microsoft Visual Studio .NET developer. The presenter is Joe Hummel. Some of the topics covered include: , , , net webbrowser.

Joe Hummel is an associate professor of computer science at Lake Forest College, a Microsoft Visual Studio .NET trainer for DevelopMentor, and an avid sailor. Joe has a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Irvine, and he has written a book with Ted Pattison that is entitled “Building Applications and Components with Visual Basic .NET.”

Here is where you can download the source code and labs for this video series.

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Architecting Desktop Applications with 2.0

 

1. Smart Clients and N-tier Design
Key Concepts:

  • smart client development
  • N-tier design

112 minutes 8/23/05
2. Design Patterns for GUI Applications
Key Concepts:

    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
3. Creating Dynamic and Configurable Applications
Key Concepts:

  • 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
4. Architecting a Secure Desktop Application
Key Concepts:

  • 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
5. Designing the Business Tier
Key Concepts:

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

107 minutes 10/25/05
6. Designing the Data Access Tier
Key Concepts:

  • 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
7. Best Practices for Developing N-Tier Applications
Key Concepts:

  • 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
8. Turning Tiers into Components
Key Concepts:

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

114 minutes 12/6/05
9. Build, Build, Build, Test, Test, Test
Key Concepts:

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

99 minutes 12/20/05
10. Multithreading for Performance and Responsiveness
Key Concepts:

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

118 minutes 1/11/06
11. Designing Distributed Applications Around Remote Access
Key Concepts:

  • 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
12. Designing Distributed Applications Around Web Services
Key Concepts:

  • 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
13. Securing a Distributed Application
Key Concepts:

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

83 minutes 2/22/06
14. ClickOnce Deployment
Key Concepts:

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

90 minutes 3/8/06
15. Learning from Agile Development
Key Concepts:

    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

 

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