Developer Training

There are many ORMs out there to choose from; Entity Framework, NHibernate, Dapper to name a few. However, each of these suffer in various areas from being overly complicated, having performance problems, requiring too much configuration, etc. Each of them all use the ADO.NET technology under the hood, so why not just use it? In this course you learn all you need to know about ADO.NET to make working with data a breeze. In addition, a complete set of wrapper classes is provided to make the code you need to write much smaller than normal.

Angular has proven to be one of the best JavaScript frameworks on the market today. Angular is great for single-page applications (SPA) and for business applications. In this course, you learn the basics of Angular through building a CRUD page. You will put together many services that you can reuse in many of your Angular applications. Exception, configuration, logging and message handling are topics you are going to learn. By the time you are done, you will have built a standard CRUD page, and a couple of other business pages. In this course you use Visual Studio Code, the latest version of Angular, Angular CLI, Bootstrap, C#, Web API, and .NET Core to build the samples.

Developing websites that are responsive to different size devices is easy when you use the right tools. Twitter's Bootstrap is the tool of choice these days. Not only is it free, but also has many free themes that allow you to modify the look and feel in a flash. Learning bootstrap is easy with the resources available on the web, however, having someone walk you through the basics step-by-step will greatly increase your learning. This course assumes you know little or nothing about bootstrap, but you want to learn how to create great looking websites that work on a desktop, tablet or smart phone. In this course you see how to use the Bootstrap grid system, use helper classes, buttons, text, wells, glyphs, images, alerts, forms, panels and much more.

Developing websites that are responsive to different size devices is easy when you use the right tools. Twitter's Bootstrap is the tool of choice these days. Not only is it free, but also has many free themes that allow you to modify the look and feel in a flash. Learning bootstrap is easy with the resources available on the web, however, having someone walk you through the basics step-by-step will greatly increase your learning. This course assumes you know little or nothing about bootstrap, but you want to learn how to create great looking websites that work on a desktop, tablet or smart phone. In this course you see how to use the Bootstrap grid system, use helper classes, buttons, text, images, tables, alerts, forms, cards and much more.

This course is for anyone who wants to learn to become a C# .NET programmer. C# is one of the most popular programming languages in the world today for the .NET platform. C# can create any type of .NET application just like any other .NET language. In this course you are introduced to the C# language. By the end of this course you will have learned techniques to allow you to create C# applications and have a good foundation on which to continue on with more advanced courses.

When creating websites with HTML, you must also learn to make that HTML look great. The way to do that is with cascading style sheets (CSS). This course teaches you the basics of CSS and CSS3 to create that great look for your web pages. CSS makes your HTML look great, be more efficient, and easer to maintain.

Most development these days is programming web applications. In order to program a web application, you must know HTML. This course teaches you the basics of HTML to layout the structure of your web pages. This course starts out by describing HTML and how it helps you layout the overall structure of your web pages. You learn the basics of HTML elements and attributes through many examples.

The JavaScript language is everywhere these days. Everything from websites, to mobile apps, to game development use JavaScript. You can hone JavaScript and jQuery skills by taking this course. If you are new to JavaScript and jQuery, this course is for you. You are introduced to both JavaScript and the jQuery library.

One of the most popular methods for creating web application these days is Microsoft's MVC and Razor. This course assumes you have little to no experience using MVC and want to learn this exciting technology. This course takes you through building a business application using the MVC Razor pages in the .NET Framework.

One of the most popular methods for creating web application these days is Microsoft's MVC Core and Razor. This course assumes you have little to no experience using MVC Core and want to learn this exciting technology. This course takes you through building a business application using the MVC Razor pages in .NET Core.

If you are a programmer or a budding database administrator, you need to know SQL Server. SQL Server is one of the most popular database systems in use today. This course teaches what you need to know in order to efficiently create a database design to support online transaction processing (OLTP) applications. You learn the T-SQL language to create database tables and other objects and to retrieve and modify data.

Every programmer knows they should be writing unit tests for their applications. Visual Studio contains unit testing tools built-in, so it makes it easy to get started. In this course you are introduced to the basics of unit testing, how to run tests, and how to reduce the number of tests by taking advantage of data-driven tests. You see an example of how to architect your applications to make testing quicker and easier. At the end of this course you will walk away with the knowledge you need to start automating the testing of your applications.

Learning XAML for use in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) can be a little daunting. This course shows you how to get up to speed quickly and easily. You learn most of the basic controls, working with styles, working with the various list controls and data binding. The Model-View-View-Model (MVVM) design pattern is used throughout this course to show you the correct way to build WPF applications. Several examples of business application forms will be shown to illustrate many of the concepts learned throughout this course.

If you have to work with XML files in your job, you need to know the most efficient way to process them using C#. The .NET Framework has a few different methods of working with XML files. This course teaches you how to process XML in the most efficient manner.