Microsoft .NET Training in Birmingham

This instructor-led, live training in Birmingham (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.

This instructor-led, live training in Birmingham (online or onsite) is aimed at web developers who wish to learn how to use Progressive Web Application (PWA) development features to create an app-like experience in a website using Entity Framework (EF) Core and Blazor.

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

• Use the EF package to work with databases.
• Use Blazor components, services, dependency injection, layout, and routing.
• Create service workers to enable PWA features in an application.
• Utilize push notifications and other PWA features.

.NET 8 is Microsoft’s latest long-term support (LTS) release for building modern, high-performance, cross-platform applications using C#.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to intermediate-level developers with limited or intermediate experience in .NET who wish to build real-world applications using the .NET 8 platform and C#.

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

• Understand the .NET 8 architecture, SDK, and project types.
• Build console and web applications using C# and ASP.NET Core 8.
• Work with data access (Entity Framework Core) and dependency injection.
• Implement basic testing, configuration, and deployment best practices.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Hands-on coding and exercises.
• Live implementation of sample projects using Visual Studio or VS Code.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course (e.g., including .NET 9 features), please contact us to arrange.

This instructor-led, live training in Birmingham (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level software developers and automation engineers who wish to build applications that communicate with PLCs and interact with SQL databases using Visual Studio.

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

• Develop .NET applications in Visual Studio for industrial automation.
• Communicate with PLCs using industrial protocols such as OPC UA.
• Implement database interactions with SQL Server for storing and retrieving PLC data.
• Optimize application performance for real-time industrial environments.

This instructor-led, live training in Birmingham (online or onsite) is aimed at web developers who wish to use Blazor Web Assembly to build a web application.

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

• Understand forms and authentication in Blazor WebAssembly.
• Create a Blazor WebAssembly project.
• Learn different ways to run your web application.

This instructor-led, live training in Birmingham (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level programmers who wish to develop applications in ASP.NET using C#.Net, transitioning from Visual Basic to create robust web interfaces and integrate PLC functionality for medical device projects.

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

• Learn foundational and intermediate concepts of C#.Net.
• Enable participants to transition from Visual Basic to C#.
• Develop skills for creating applications using ASP.NET tailored to medical device interfaces.
• Strengthen understanding of linking PLC functionality with web-based interfaces.

This instructor-led, live training in Birmingham (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner to intermediate-level developers who wish to develop applications using Visual Studio.

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

• Utilize Visual Studio 2022 features efficiently.
• Run and manage unit tests.
• Debug applications and work with code in remote repositories.

In this instructor-led, live training in Birmingham, 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.

This instructor-led, live training in Birmingham 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#.

Objectives

MVC Web applications offer a clean separation of concerns between the business-logic classes, Web pages, and the controller. Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 4 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, including Test Driven Development and JQuery.

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.

This instructor-led, live training in (online or onsite) equips participants with the essential skills needed to leverage the capabilities of C# 6.0 within the Visual Studio 2015/2017 environment.

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

• Navigate and utilize the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) in Visual Studio 2015/2017.
• Implement basic C# functionalities such as Console.WriteLine, Console.ReadLine, and Hello C# World!.
• Understand the process of compiling and debugging C# code.
• Apply comments in C# for code documentation and readability.
• Explore the fundamentals of .NET 6.0, including CLR, GC, DLL, EXE, and technologies within .NET.
• Review the history of C# from version 1.0 to 6.0 and grasp C# fundamentals such as keywords, literals, operators, and statements.
• Work with numeric and boolean types, classes, objects, fields, properties, indexers, operators, methods, and more in C# 6.0.
• Explore .NET Class Library features, including collections, file handling, data streams, communication between systems, dates, serialization, and parallel programming.
• Access and manipulate data using ADO.NET, LINQ, ORM (Entity Framework), and data in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).
• Review applications that can be developed in C# and .NET Framework 6, such as Windows Presentation Foundation, ASP.NET MVC 2, and Silverlight.

Objectives

This C# course will enable delegates to develop applications in the C# programming language. Delegates will be able to program using the principles of object orientation. The course will also cover how to use the Visual Studio development environment to produce robust and maintainable applications.

Audience

This course is intended for the following types of software developers:

• New developers
• Developers who understand computer programming but may have learned programming by using a non-graphical language in a university

These developers want to build solutions by using C#; within the Microsoft .NET Framework. They also want to employ Object Orientated techniques to enhance their development skills.

This instructor-led, live trainingin in Birmingham 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.

This instructor-led, live training in Birmingham (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.

In this instructor-led, live training in Birmingham, 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.

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.

.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

In this instructor-led, live training in Birmingham, 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.

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.

This instructor-led, live training in Birmingham (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.

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.

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

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)

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.

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.

• 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

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.

In this instructor-led, live training in Birmingham, 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.

In this instructor-led, live training in Birmingham, 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.

In this instructor-led, live training in Birmingham (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.

In this instructor-led, live training in Birmingham (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.

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

This instructor-led, live training in (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to intermediate-level developers who wish to use VSTO to create customized solutions for Microsoft Office applications.

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

• Create add-ins and document-level customizations for Office applications.
• Access and manipulate the Office object model and its events.
• Create custom ribbons, task panes, and dialogs for Office applications.
• Use Windows Forms controls and .NET components in Office documents.
• Integrate Office applications with web services and databases.
• Deploy and secure Office solutions.

Audience

•  Developers

Format of the Course

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

Learning how to use Microsoft Visual Studio as an integrated development environment (IDE) using VB.NET (Visual Basic .NET) Programming Language a multi-paradigm, object-oriented programming language that is implemented on the 4.7.2 .NET Framework together