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.NET Framework Training Courses at GBdirect

This section of the site contains a range of Microsoft Programming and Scripting courses.

Courses offered in this topic are as indicated (* Open Public Course * Closed In-House Course)

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.NET Framework Overview

The .NET Framework is Microsoft's platform for building applications that have visually stunning user experiences, seamless and secure communication, and the ability to model a range of business processes. By providing you with a comprehensive and consistent programming model and a common set of APIs, the .NET Framework helps you to build applications that work the way you want, in the programming language you prefer, across software, services, and devices.

Secure, Multi-Language Development Platform. Developers and IT professionals can count on .NET as a powerful and robust software development technology that provides the security advancements, management tools, and updates you need to build, test, and deploy highly reliable and secure software. .NET supports the programming language you prefer by providing one multi-language development platform, so you can choose how you want to work. The Common Language Runtime (CLR) provides support for powerful, static languages like Visual Basic and Visual C#, and the advent of the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) means that dynamic languages, such as Managed Jscript, IronRuby and IronPython, are also supported.

Rapid, Model-Driven Development Paradigm. .NET offers pioneering solutions that enable rapid application development and result in dramatic increases in productivity. For example, the new ADO.NET Entity Framework offers a model-based development paradigm and a standards-based framework that raises the level of abstraction for database programming, allowing developers to cleanly separate one's business logic, data and user interface. By programming against a conceptual application model instead of programming directly against a relational storage schema, developers can greatly reduce the amount of code and maintenance required for data-oriented applications.

Next-Generation User Experiences. Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) provides a unified framework for building applications and high-fidelity experiences in Windows Vista that blend together application UI, documents, and media content, while exploiting the full power of the computer. WPF offers developers support for both 2D and 3D graphics, hardware accelerated effects, scalability to different form factors, interactive data visualization, and superior content readability. Further, with a common file format (XAML), designers can become an integral part of the development process by working alongside developers in a workflow that promotes creativity while maintaining full fidelity.

Cutting-Edge Web Application Development. ASP.NET is a free technology that enables Web developers to create anything from small, personal Web sites through to large, enterprise-class dynamic Web applications. Microsoft's free AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) framework - ASP.NET AJAX - enables developers to quickly create more efficient, more interactive, and highly personalized Web experiences that work across all of the most popular browsers. And the new ASP.NET Dynamic Data functionality in Visual Studio 2008 uses a rich scaffolding framework that allows rapid data-driven Web development without writing any code.

Secure, Reliable Web Services. The service-oriented programming model of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is built on the Microsoft .NET Framework and simplifies development of connected systems and ensures interoperability. Windows Communication Foundation unifies a broad array of distributed systems capabilities in a composable and extensible architecture, spanning transports, security systems, messaging patterns, encodings, network topologies, and hosting models.

Enabling Mission-Critical Business Processes. With .NET, developers can use Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) to model a business process with code, enabling closer collaboration between developers and business process owners, and providing end users with better access to data, thereby improving productivity.

Superior Reach Across Devices and Platforms. The .NET Framework enables developers to build solutions for a wide array of devices, from personal computers and servers to mobile phones and embedded devices. Silverlight, a runtime that contains a subset of the .NET Framework, helps developers expand their reach by providing a cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET-based media experiences, advertising and rich interactive applications (RIAs).

If you are looking for a particular .NET course title or particular Microsoft certification scheme related to .NET, but don’t see it in the left hand menu or in the list above, you can probably find it by using the site search facility or by browsing through a likely sounding category. If you know an .NET training title exists, but can’t find it on the site, please telephone or email our training sales department (contact details in the lower left hand column of every page).

Microsoft Programming public courses schedule

M2433: MS Visual Basic Scripting Edition & MS Windows Script Host Essentials, three days (course outline)

London — £595 (+VAT)

  • 29–31 Mar 2010
  • 5–7 Jul 2010
  • 12–14 Jul 2010
  • 15–17 Nov 2010

Wokingham — £595 (+VAT)

  • 4–6 May 2010
  • 1–3 Sep 2010

Leicester — £595 (+VAT)

  • 26–28 Apr 2010

M2956: Core Foundations of MS .NET 2.0 Development, three days (course outline)

London — £595 (+VAT)

  • 26–28 May 2010
  • 27–29 Oct 2010

Bristol — £595 (+VAT)

  • 30 Jun–2 Jul 2010

Manchester — £595 (+VAT)

  • 24–26 May 2010

M2957: Advanced Foundations of MS .NET 2.0 Development, three days (course outline)

London — £595 (+VAT)

  • 24–26 Mar 2010
  • 21–23 Jul 2010
  • 24–26 Nov 2010

Manchester — £595 (+VAT)

  • 21–23 Jun 2010

Leeds — £595 (+VAT)

  • 29–31 Mar 2010

M50025: PowerShell for Admins, three days (course outline)

London — £595 (+VAT)

  • 21–23 Apr 2010
  • 9–11 Jun 2010
  • 1–3 Sep 2010
  • 1–3 Dec 2010

Bristol — £595 (+VAT)

  • 16–18 Jun 2010

Leicester — £595 (+VAT)

  • 24–26 Mar 2010
  • 28–30 Jun 2010

Manchester — £595 (+VAT)

  • 28–30 Apr 2010

Leeds — £595 (+VAT)

  • 19–21 May 2010

Edinburgh — £595 (+VAT)

  • 12–14 May 2010

Glasgow — £595 (+VAT)

  • 19–21 Jul 2010
  • 13–15 Oct 2010

Accelerated Migration to Microsoft ASP .NET 3.5, three days (course outline)

London — £895 (+VAT)

  • 10–12 May 2010
  • 2–4 Aug 2010

Advanced Scripting For Windows System Administrators, four days (course outline)

London — £1195 (+VAT)

  • 20–23 Apr 2010
  • 31 Aug–3 Sep 2010
  • 20–23 Dec 2010

Introduction to Scripting For Windows System Administrators, three days (course outline)

London — £895 (+VAT)

  • 5–7 May 2010
  • 26–28 Jul 2010
  • 8–10 Nov 2010

Application Development Using Visual Basic 6, four days (course outline)

London — £1195 (+VAT)

  • 11–14 May 2010
  • 13–16 Jul 2010
  • 14–17 Sep 2010

Building Effective ASP.NET 2 Web Applications using MS Visual Studio 2005, five days (course outline)

London — £1495 (+VAT)

  • 17–21 May 2010
  • 19–23 Jul 2010
  • 20–24 Sep 2010

Manchester — £1495 (+VAT)

  • 12–16 Jul 2010
  • 18–22 Oct 2010

Edinburgh — £1495 (+VAT)

  • 17–21 May 2010
  • 11–15 Oct 2010

Glasgow — £1495 (+VAT)

  • 14–18 Jun 2010
  • 15–19 Nov 2010

Building Effective ASP .NET 3.5 Web Applications using MS Visual Studio 2008, five days (course outline)

London — £1495 (+VAT)

  • 19–23 Apr 2010
  • 26–30 Apr 2010
  • 10–14 May 2010
  • 7–11 Jun 2010
  • 5–9 Jul 2010
  • 9–13 Aug 2010
  • 13–17 Sep 2010
  • 11–15 Oct 2010
  • 8–12 Nov 2010
  • 6–10 Dec 2010

Leicester — £1495 (+VAT)

  • 28 Jun–2 Jul 2010

Manchester — £1495 (+VAT)

  • 17–21 May 2010
  • 19–23 Jul 2010
  • 13–17 Sep 2010

Leeds — £1495 (+VAT)

  • 7–11 Jun 2010
  • 8–12 Nov 2010

Edinburgh — £1495 (+VAT)

  • 24–28 May 2010
  • 16–20 Aug 2010

Develop Effective Web Apps using AJAX, .NET3.5 & MS Visual Studio 2008, four days (course outline)

London — £1195 (+VAT)

  • 22–25 Mar 2010
  • 22–25 Jun 2010
  • 26–29 Oct 2010

Manchester — £1195 (+VAT)

  • 29 Mar–1 Apr 2010
  • 27–30 Sep 2010

Leeds — £1195 (+VAT)

  • 4–7 May 2010
  • 11–14 Oct 2010

Develop Web Apps with ASP & VBScript, four days (course outline)

London — £1195 (+VAT)

  • 3–6 Aug 2010

Enterprise MS .NET 3.5 Framework, five days (course outline)

London — £1495 (+VAT)

  • 17–21 May 2010
  • 16–20 Aug 2010
  • 29 Nov–3 Dec 2010

Manchester — £1495 (+VAT)

  • 20–24 Sep 2010

Leeds — £1495 (+VAT)

  • 19–23 Apr 2010
  • 8–12 Nov 2010

The MS C# 3.0 Programming Language, four days (course outline)

London — £1195 (+VAT)

  • 12–15 Apr 2010
  • 4–7 May 2010
  • 8–11 Jun 2010
  • 6–9 Jul 2010
  • 3–6 Aug 2010
  • 7–10 Sep 2010
  • 5–8 Oct 2010
  • 9–12 Nov 2010
  • 7–10 Dec 2010

Manchester — £1195 (+VAT)

  • 29 Mar–1 Apr 2010
  • 14–17 Jun 2010

Leeds — £1195 (+VAT)

  • 6–9 Apr 2010
  • 1–4 Jun 2010
  • 24–27 Aug 2010

Sunderland — £1195 (+VAT)

  • 17–20 May 2010

Glasgow — £1195 (+VAT)

  • 4–7 May 2010
  • 26–29 Jul 2010

The Visual Basic 2008 Programming Language, four days (course outline)

London — £1195 (+VAT)

  • 8–11 Jun 2010
  • 14–17 Sep 2010
  • 14–17 Dec 2010

Bristol — £1195 (+VAT)

  • 11–14 May 2010

Manchester — £1195 (+VAT)

  • 13–16 Apr 2010

Sunderland — £1195 (+VAT)

  • 19–22 Apr 2010

Understand MS .NET, one day (course outline)

London — £295 (+VAT)

  • 28 May 2010
  • 13 Sep 2010

Visual Basic 6 Primer, one day (course outline)

London — £295 (+VAT)

  • 13 Sep 2010
  • 15 Nov 2010

Tools and Techniques for Designing User Interfaces with MS Silverlight 2, four days (course outline)

London — £1195 (+VAT)

  • 24–27 May 2010
  • 31 Aug–3 Sep 2010
  • 7–10 Dec 2010

Manchester — £1195 (+VAT)

  • 1–4 Jun 2010

Leeds — £1195 (+VAT)

  • 6–9 Apr 2010

Building Effective ASP.NET 4.0 Web Sites using Visual Studio 2010, five days (course outline)

London — £1495 (+VAT)

  • 5–9 Jul 2010
  • 16–20 Aug 2010
  • 6–10 Sep 2010
  • 11–15 Oct 2010
  • 15–19 Nov 2010

Manchester — £1495 (+VAT)

  • 9–13 Aug 2010
  • 4–8 Oct 2010

Leeds — £1495 (+VAT)

  • 23–27 Aug 2010
  • 22–26 Nov 2010