.NET Training Overview
This comprehensive and practical four-day course builds skills in .NET’s XML processing APIs—chiefly parsing using XmlReader and the Document Object Model (DOM), writing XML streams using XmlWriter, transformations using XPath and XSLT, and LINQ to XML, all using the .NET Framework XML classes and the C# language. It also covers XML serialization according to XML Schema and the tight coupling between XML and ADO.NET. SQL Server is used for the database examples. The course is intended for students with a working knowledge of XML who want to build XML applications or components using .NET and the C# language. Everything in the course adheres to W3C and .NET standards for highly portable code. Visual Studio 2017 with .NET 4.6.1 is used as the development environment.
The course includes extensive programming examples, a progressively developed case study, and several tools for manipulating XML documents. All source code is in C# and is provided with the course.
Upon completion of this course the student will be equipped to program XML applications in .NET and understand which XML and .NET technologies to apply for the problem domain.
.NET Training Learning Objectives
.NET Training Prerequisites
Ability to read and to write well-formed XML. A working knowledge of programming the .NET Framework using C#. A working knowledge of ADO.NET is recommended for the portion of the course dealing with ADO.NET and XML.
.NET Training Course duration
4 days
.NET Training Course outline
1. .NET Framework XML Overview
2. Reading XML Streams in .NET
3. Validating XML Streams
4. Writing XML Streams in .NET
5. The Document Object Model in .NET
6. Manipulating XML Information with the DOM
7. XML Serialization
8. XML and ADO.NET
9. XPath
10. Introduction to XSLT
11. LINQ to XML
Appendix A. Zenith Courseware Case Study
Appendix B. Learning Resources
System Requirements
Required software is Visual Studio 2017, which includes LocalDB, a lightweight version of SQL Server. The free Visual Studio Community 2017 may be used. The operating system should be Windows 7sp1 or more recent. See the appropriate course Setup Guide for details.
A good minimal hardware profile for this course would have a 2 GHz or better CPU, 2 GB of RAM (4 GB recommended), and at least 10 GB of free disk space for tools installation and courseware.