With the fast pace of technology change today, Key Training Services take on the challenge and have geared up to start training in Microsoft’s latest products, Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005
Visual Studio 2005
Steve Casaletto, managing director of Key Training Services and a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) for over 12 years, and Alexey Glazirin, a foreign MCT and .NET developer Evangelist who joined the company recently, have just returned from separate Microsoft Train the Trainer courses in Visual Studio 2005, in the UK and France respectively.
These courses were aimed at showing how the new language features in the Visual Studio 2005 release of Visual C# and Visual Basic can significantly improve code performance and robustness while at the same time improving programmer productivity.
Some of the topics covered were:
• Visual C#.Net Language Enhancements
• Visual Basic.Net Language Enhancements
• What’s New in System.Data: Common Programming Model, Schema API, and DataSet Enhancements
• SqlClient Enhancements and SQL Server 2005 Integration
• Visual Studio Team System Architect Designers
• The new ASP.Net 2.0
• What's New with Visual Studio 2005
• Secure Applications using Membership and Role Management with
• Visual Studio 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0
• Dynamic Navigation Systems with Visual Studio 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0
• Personalisable Applications with Web Parts using Visual Studio 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0
• Comparing the performance of generic and non-generic code using Visual Studio 2005 and investigating the new Visual Basic My capabilities
• Application Deployment with the new ClickOnce deployment
• Visual Studio 2005 and Future Windows Mobile Platform
• Data Access with SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition and the .NET Compact Framework v2.0
• Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System Version 2005
SQL Server 2005
Steve Casaletto also attended a five-day Train-the-Trainer event for SQL Server 2005 organised by Microsoft in Dubai.
SQL Server 2005, codenamed Yukon, which is a member of the Windows Server System™, will provide developers with integrated tools for improved database development. Building on the technology provided in SQL Server 2000, SQL Server “Yukon” offers rich XML support and deeper integration with .NET Framework technologies and Microsoft development tools. SQL Server “Yukon” will significantly increase developer productivity and flexibility while reducing complexity.
The following course areas were covered:
Database Development: developing line-of-business database applications using SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005.
Business Intelligence Development: how to add analytics to an existing line-of-business application using SQL Server 2005 BI components (Analysis Services, Reporting Services, and Data Transformation Services
Database Infrastructure: how to design, deploy, manage and tune enterprise database applications in SQL Server 2005.
Key Training Services
Key Training Services will be providing training in Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 in the very near future to enable developers to update their skills prior to these products’ releases in November, 2005.
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