Microsoft .NET Training Courses

C# is an efficient, object-oriented language for developing applications on the Microsoft .NET platform.

This instructor-led, live training introduces advanced features of C#, examines its usage as both a desktop application programming language and a web programming language for solving real-world problems.

Programming techniques and principals are demonstrated and practiced through in-class, hands-on exercises and walk-throughs.

Format of the Course

- C# advanced principles are discussed as participants step through the creation of a real-world application.

ASP.NET MVC 6 is new in Visual Studio 2015, and is the latest evolution of Microsoft’s web development stack. This course covers the latest APIs and development techniques for creating dynamic, modular, and testable web sites. We’ll explore the new features available in MVC6 and show how to get the best out of the latest toolset and integration possibilities.

What you’ll learn

- Understand MVC architecture principles and benefits
- Creating views, view components, and tag helpers
- Using ASP.NET dependency injection
- Creating RESTful services using Web API
- Getting the best out of GruntJS, NPM, and Bower integration
- Creating Single Page Applications (SPAs)

Unit testing is a testing approach that tests individual units of source code by modifying its properties or triggering an event to confirm whether the outcome is as expected.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to write and execute unit tests against a sample .Net application using C# and Visual Studio.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Use testing frameworks such as NUnit and xUnit.net to create and manage unit test code
- Define and implement a broader test driven development approach to testing
- Adapt the testing framework to extend the test coverage for an application

Audience

- Software test engineers
- Developers

Format of the course

- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

UiPath is an RPA (Robotic Process Automation) tool for automating an organization's everyday tasks, freeing employees from the daily routine of rote work. UiPath uses diagrams, flowcharts and drag and drop options to define activities for automation. It allows for convenient administration of rules-based tasks and allows components to be shared and reused among different projects and teams.

- The UiPath extensible architecture uses predictive analytics, cognitive capabilities and artificial intelligence to automate complex processes.

In this instructor-led, live training (onsite or remote), participants will learn how to create an automation workflow, manipulate data within the workflow, debug issues and set up the necessary end-to-end infrastructure needed to deploy a full-fledged robotic workflow.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Design, deploy and manage a robotic workforce that mimics real employees.
- Apply this RPA solution to various business areas, including finance, BPO, software, and insurance.

Format of the Course

- Interactive lecture and discussion.
- Lots of exercises and practice.
- Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

- To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

UiPath is an RPA (Robotic Process Automation) tool for automating an organization's everyday tasks, freeing employees from the daily routine of rote work. UiPath uses diagrams, flowcharts and drag and drop options to define activities for automation. It allows for convenient administration of rules-based tasks and allows components to be shared and reused among different projects and teams.

- The UiPath extensible architecture uses predictive analytics, cognitive capabilities and artificial intelligence to automate complex processes.

In this instructor-led, live training (onsite or remote), participants will learn how to create an automation workflow, manipulate data within the workflow, debug issues and set up the necessary end-to-end infrastructure needed to deploy a full-fledged robotic workflow.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Design, deploy and manage a robotic workforce that mimics real employees.
- Apply this RPA solution to various business areas, including finance, BPO, software, and insurance.

Format of the course

- Interactive lecture and discussion.
- Lots of exercises and practice.
- Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

- To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

SpecFlow is the official Cucumber implementation for .NET. It allows testers to define, manage and automatically execute human-readable acceptance tests in .NET projects. SpecFlow uses the official Gherkin parser and supports the .NET framework, Xamarin and Mono.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to use SpecFlow to write acceptance tests that are understandable by technical as well as non-technical stakeholders.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Bind business requirements to .NET code.
- Apply BDD techniques to build up living documentation for an application.
- Run SpecFlow from Visual Studio or the command line.
- Integrate SpecFlow into an existing continuous testing and build environment.
- Integrate SpecFlow with other testing frameworks such as MSTest, NUnit, xUnit and MbUnit.

Format of the course

- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice.

Spec Explorer is a tool for creating models of software behavior, analyzing those models with graphical visualization, checking the validity of those models, and generating test cases from the models.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn the theory and practice of model-based testing as they use Spec Explorer to create and execute MBT tests on a demo application.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Generate test cases by applying modeling strategies and techniques
- Manage test models for different types of software applications, systems and environments
- Evaluate, propose and implement an MBT strategy within an organization
- Understand and explain the benefits and challenges of MBT

Audience

- Test engineers
- Developers

Format of the course

- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

The .NET Reactive Extensions (Rx) is a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable collections and LINQ-style query operators.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to develop an asynchronous application using .NET Reactive Extensions.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Create applications that capture event streams from diverse data sources such as stock quotes, tweets, computer events, and web services
- Use Observables and Schedulers to represent and manage multiple asynchronous data streams
- Filter, project, aggregate, compose and perform time-based operations on multiple events using LINQ operators

Audience

- Developers

Format of the course

- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

RabbitMQ is an open source enterprise messaging broker for storing and retrieving messages passed by processes, applications, and servers. It uses a message queue for processing tasks asynchronously and is especially useful in applications that need to process large data sets in the background, while concurrently responding to live user requests in real-time.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to install, configure and administer RabbitMQ, then integrate RabbitMQ messaging into a number of sample .NET applications.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Setup, configure and manage RabbitMQ.
- Understand RabbitQ's role in the design and implementation of a microservices architecture.
- Understand how RabbitMQ compares to other Message Queuing Architectures.
- Set up and use RabbitMQ as a broker for handling asynchronous and synchronous messages for real-world enterprise .Net applications.

Format of the course

- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

This intensive training provides the fundamental knowledge and skills to use Windows PowerShell for automating administration of Windows based computers. The skills taught in this course are applicable to all Microsoft products that use Windows PowerShell for daily administration.

Training focuses mainly on using Windows PowerShell as an interactive command line interface however it also includes some coverage of scripting and programming topics.

- To learn the fundamentals of PowerShell from the command line and via scripts
- To take a deep dive in to the underlying technologies in use with PowerShell
- To learn how to automate common operations using PowerShell
- We will look at PowerShell in Windows and in Windows Servers such as SQL, Exchange and System Center

The objective of this course is to allow developers to write applications in Metro-style, the new application model available with Windows 8. Metro-style apps can run either on ordinary desktops, or a new family of “post-PC” devices designed to compete with the iPad.

This three-day course is designed for .NET developers who want to fully understand how to port their skills over to Windows Runtime, or WinRT. The course will take students through all the important aspects of building this new type of application.

The course is designed for people who want to learn programming language based on C# and learn basic capabilities of the .NET platform. During the training participants will learn how it is built into C#, how to set up an environment to write basic programs, use the standard libraries.

Microsoft Orleans is an actor framework (similar to AKKA.net) for building a stateful middle tier.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at developers who wish to use Microsoft Orleans to build distributed enterprise .NET applications.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Install and configure Microsoft Orleans.
- Understand the actor model framework and how its implemented in Orleans
- Build distributed applications without having to manage complex concurrency and other scaling patterns.

Format of the Course

- Interactive lecture and discussion.
- Lots of exercises and practice.
- Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

- To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.
- To learn more about Orleans, please visit: https://dotnet.github.io/orleans/

Apache Spark is a distributed processing engine for analyzing very large data sets. It can process data in batches and real-time, as well as carry out machine learning, ad-hoc queries, and graph processing. .NET for Apache Spark is a free, open-source, and cross-platform big data analytics framework that supports applications written in C# or F#.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at developers who wish to carry out big data analysis using Apache Spark in their .NET applications.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Install and configure Apache Spark.
- Understand how .NET implements Spark APIs so that they can be accessed from a .NET application.
- Develop data processing applications using C# or F#, capable of handling data sets whose size is measured in terabytes and pedabytes.
- Develop machine learning features for a .NET application using Apache Spark capabilities.
- Carry out exploratory analysis using SQL queries on big data sets.

Format of the Course

- Interactive lecture and discussion.
- Lots of exercises and practice.
- Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

- To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

ML.NET is a framework for machine learning applications built upon the .NET development platform by Microsoft. It is extensible to multiple operating systems and can perform various machine learning prediction tasks. The central ML.NET tools are the ML.NET CLI and Model Builder which allow .NET developers to generate, train, and deploy machine learning models based on the objectives of an enterprise.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at data scientists and developers who wish to use ML.NET machine learning models to automatically derive projections from executed data analysis for enterprise applications.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Install ML.NET and integrate it into the application development environment.
- Understand the machine learning principles behind ML.NET tools and algorithms.
- Build and train machine learning models to perform predictions with the provided data smartly.
- Evaluate the performance of a machine learning model using the ML.NET metrics.
- Optimize the accuracy of the existing machine learning models based on the ML.NET framework.
- Apply the machine learning concepts of ML.NET to other data science applications.

Format of the Course

- Interactive lecture and discussion.
- Lots of exercises and practice.
- Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

- To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

.NET Core is one of the major software components of the .NET development platform by Microsoft. It allows users to execute applications on multiple operating systems without the risk of regressions present in the classic .NET Framework. Among the key features of .NET Core are lightweight architecture and command-line control, which are employable to develop high-performance enterprise applications.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at developers who wish to use .NET Core to create, build, test, debug and deploy optimized applications that can run on different systems.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Set up the development environment based on .NET Core to start developing applications.
- Utilize the ASP.NET Core framework and libraries to build new applications or optimize existing ones.
- Monitor and enhance the performance of applications using advanced .NET Core tools.
- Understand the principles behind .NET Core features and apply this knowledge to other business implementations.

Format of the Course

- Interactive lecture and discussion.
- Lots of exercises and practice.
- Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

- To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

This instructor-led, live training is designed for anyone interested in learning C# for the purpose of automation testing. It is a streamlined, intensive course with plenty of hands-on exercises to get participants ramped up quickly with the essential programming skills needed to apply in software automation testing. The focus is on the C# fundamentals which can be directly and immediately applied to test automation.

This course does not cover in depth test automation frameworks such as Selenium. If you are already versed in C# and wish to get straight into testing with Selenium, please check out: [Selenium WebDriver in C#: Introduction to web testing automation in C#](/cc/seleniumcsharp).

Format of the Course

- Part lecture, part discussion, heavy hands-on practice, occasional tests to gauge understanding

Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) allows for the creation of applications that run as centrally managed services. App-V applications have the benefit of never needing to be installed directly on the end user's computer and never conflicting with other applications.

In this instructor-led, live training, we introduce the architecture, components and processes behind application virtualization and walk participants step-by-step through the deployment of App-V and App-V applications in a live lab environment. By the end of the course, participants will have knowledge and hands-on practice needed to install, configure, administer, and troubleshoot App-V as well as create, package and deploy their own App-V applications.

Format of the course

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Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Notes:

- This course covers version 5.1 of App-V. For training on a different version, please contact us to arrange.

Delegates will be introduced to the .Net framework and will learn to develop web applications using C# 4.0. At course completion delegates should be familiar with the framework, experienced in developing basic web application and conversant with database access using LINQ. Applications will be created using Object Orientated programming.

After completing this course, delegates will be able to:

- Use Visual Studio 2010 effectively
- Learn C# 4.0
- Create commercial ASP.NET Web Applications
- Understand OO Programming, Classes, and Objects
- Debug Applications
- Develop user interfaces using Master Pages, Site Navigation and Themes
- Use ADO.Net and LINQ to read from and write to databases
- Develop rich internet applications using ASP.NET AJAX
- Create and call WCF services

Objectives

Over the last few years there has been a steady move towards Model-View-Controller (MVC) architectures for Web applications. MVC Web applications offer a clean separation of concerns between the business-logic classes, Web pages, and the controller. Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 4.5 offers Web developers all the benefits of MVC allied with all the power of the .NET platform. This course provides full coverage of ASP.NET MVC 4.5.

After completing this course, delegates will be able to:

- Understand the Role of the Model, View, and Controller Design Pattern
- Create Industrial-Strength Applications
- Apply Test Driven Development Methods
- Implementing Navigation Between Pages
- Implement Rich User Interfaces with JQuery and Ajax

Audience

ASP.NET developers who want to use the MVC architecture.

Decentralized applications or dApps are applications that run on the blockchain.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to develop decentralized applications (dApps) using Microsoft Visual Studio as they build dApps using two methods of integration with Visual Studio.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Understand the fundamentals of developing decentralized applications (dApps)
- Understand the differences between typical ASP.NET applications and dApps
- Learn how to work with smart contracts
- Build dApps using Microsoft Visual Studio, BlockApps, and Solidity
- Build dApps using Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Azure, and BlockApps STRATO

Audience

- Developers

Format of the course

- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Course overview

C# 6 is new in Visual Studio, and is the latest evolution of Microsoft’s primary programming language. This course covers the latest language features in C# 6 and the .NET platform. You’ll get a deep and broad understanding of C# as a programming language, and gain confidence to explore the richness of the .NET Framework library including asynchronous programming, LINQ, and EF.

What you’ll learn

- Essential C# syntax
- Implementing object-oriented designs in C#
- Using generics, collection classes, and exceptions
- What’s new in C# 6 and .NET 2015
- Using LINQ and EF
- Introduction to asynchronous programming
- Overview of MVC6

.NET Core is an open-source framework for creating .NET applications on Windows, macOS and Linux.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn the fundamentals of .Net Core as they step through the creation of a sample application that demonstrates .Net Core's unique qualities vs other frameworks.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Setup .Net Core together with the tooling and IDEs needed to start developing right away.
- Use .Net to build various types of software, including web applications, console applications, microservices and libraries.
- Understand .Net Core's components, including class libraries, packages, metapackages and frameworks.
- Build, debug and deploy a sample web application

Audience

- Developers

Format of the Course

- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice in a live-lab environment.

Note

- This course is based on .Net Core 2.x and is available for both Windows and Linux environments.
- To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.
- To learn more about .Net Core, please visit: https://github.com/dotnet/core

Microservice architecture is an approach to developing a software application as a suite of small, independent services, each running in its own process and communicating with lightweight mechanisms such as an HTTP resource API. These services can be efficiently deployed using continuous automation systems and bypass the need for centralized management. Microservices can be written in different programming languages and integrate with different data storage systems.

This instructor-led, live training is aimed at enterprise developers and architects. It introduces microservice architecture from a .Net perspective, presents migration strategies from a monolithic system, and walks participants through the creation and deployment of a sample microservice-based application.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Understand when to use and when not to use microservice architecture
- Create and implement a testing strategy for microservices
- Deploy a sample microservice-based application into a production environment
- Refactor a monolithic application into services

Audience

- Developers
- Architects

Format of the course

- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Entity Framework Core 2.0 is a lightweight, cross-platform ORM (Object Relational Model) for developing data-oriented applications. It allows developers to work with data as .Net objects and properties.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to use Entity Framework Core 2.0 to create an ASP.Net Core application.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Set up the necessary framework and tools for creating Entity Framework Core 2.0 MVC web applications.
- Perform database operations on MS SQL Server.
- Use a "code first" and "data first" approach to application development.
- Carry out migration & seeding operations.
- Understand advanced data modeling concepts.
- Create a sample ASP.Net Core application.

Format of the Course

- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice in a live-lab environment.

Note

- To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.
- For more information on Entity Framework Core, please see: https://github.com/aspnet/EntityFrameworkCore

Teaches attendees the fundamentals of administering IIS 7 and applications on the .NET platform.

The course is a mixture of lectures and hands-on exercises. Delegates learn by doing, with immediate opportunities to apply the material they learn to real-world problems.

Teaches attendees the fundamentals of administering IIS 8 and applications on the .NET platform.
The course is a mixture of lectures and hands-on exercises. Delegates learn by doing, with immediate opportunities to apply the material they learn to real-world problems.

Blazor is an open source web framework written in C#. Blazor enables developers to create interactive web user interfaces and applications using C#.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at web developers who wish to use Blazor to create full stack C# web applications.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Develop web applications with C# and Blazor.
- Use C# code to call JavaScript APIs and libraries.
- Run client-side C# code and client logic directly in a browser or server.
- Deploy Blazor web applications with Azure.

Format of the Course

- Interactive lecture and discussion.
- Lots of exercises and practice.
- Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

- To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

When developers finish writing a piece of code, they often integrate their code into an application, copy the application into a folder, run the application installer, then initialize the application to check whether it runs as expected. This manual approach does not scale very well, is tedious, very error-prone and offers no mechanism for tracking changes during the process.

A better approach would be to automate the process using Continuous Integration. Continuous Integration refers to the processes, tools and infrastructure needed to automate the building, deployment and testing of software applications.

In this instructor-led, live training (onsite or remote), participants will learn how to transform a traditional, manual (or semi-manual) approach to software deployment into an agile, Continuous Integration (CI) one using Jenkins. Participants carry out a series of hands-on, live-lab exercises throughout the course, applying their new knowledge to various software development and deployment problems every step of the way. Interaction among the instructor and participants is encouraged. Real-world cases are discussed and specific issues and questions are addressed and resolved throughout the training. The training is especially focused on .Net application development.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

- Install and configure Jenkins for .Net application development
- Use Jenkins to automate the process of checking in and merging .Net source code into a code repository
- Use Jenkins to automate the process of downloading, compiling and deploying an application to a release server
- Integrate Jenkins with other software development tools such as issue trackers and

Audience

- .Net developers
- Build engineers
- QA engineers
- Project managers
- Release managers
- DevOps engineers

Format of the Course

- Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Note

- To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.