Microsoft Windows Phone (Mobility) Training

• Create XAML based objects and applications.
• Create Silverlight applications and interactive user interface using layout controls, hosting controls, and InitParams.
• Implement animations, transformation, visual states, and binding in XAML-based applications.
• Compare data access technologies and implement the most suitable to solve the real world problems.
• Create, update, query, and delete Entity Data.
• Work with Object Services model implemented by the Entity Framework.
• Reuse existing business classes by using the Entity Framework.
• Build and handle updates in an N-Tier Solution by using the Entity Framework.
• Building Occasionally Connected Solutions.
• Design, develop, update, and query data by using WCF Data Services.

• Web developers
• Windows Forms developers
• .NET software developers

• Windows Forms desktop applications
• ASP.NET Web applications
• Database connectivity using the Entity Framework, LINQ, and ADO.NET

1. Binding in XAML

• Introduction to XAML-Based Applications
• Tools for Designing and Developing XAML-Based Applications
• Anatomy of a XAML-Based Application

2. Creating Vector Graphics with Expression Studio 4

• Creating Vector Graphics with Expression Blend 4
• Creating Vector Graphics with Expression Design 4
• Importing Vector Graphics into Expression Blend 4

3. Laying out a XAML-Based Application

• Organizing Controls in the User Interface
• Adding and Manipulating Controls

4. Developing and Debugging XAML-Based Applications

• Developing WPF Applications
• Developing Silverlight Applications
• Hosting Silverlight Applications
• Debugging XAML-Based Applications

5. Creating Controls Programmatically and Working with Media Files

• Creating and Using Controls Programmatically
• Working with Media Files

6. Working with Resources, Styles, Control Templates, and Behaviors

• Working with Resources
• Working with Styles and Control Templates
• Working with Actions, Triggers, and Behaviors

7. Implementing Transforms, Animations, and Visual States

• Transforms in XAML-Based Applications
• Animations in XAML-Based Applications
• Implementing and Working with Visual States

8. Binding in XAML

• Property Binding in XAML-Based Applications
• Data Binding in XAML-Based Applications

9. Prototyping Applications by Using SketchFlow in Expression Blend 4

• Prototyping Applications with SketchFlow
• Packaging and Reviewing Prototypes Developed with SketchFlow

10. Architecture and Data Access Technologies

• Data Access Technologies
• Data Access Scenarios

11. Building Entity Data Models

• Introduction to Entity Data Models
• Modifying the Entity Data Model
• Customizing the Entity Data Model

12. Querying Entity Data

• Retrieving Data by Using LINQ to Entities
• Retrieving Data by Using Entity SQL
• Retrieving Data by Using EntityClient Provider
• Retrieving Data by Using Stored Procedures
• Unit Testing Your Data Access Code

13. Creating, Updating, and Deleting Entity Data

• Understanding Change Tracking in the Entity Framework
• Modifying Data in an Entity Data Model

14. Handling Multi-User Scenarios by Using Object Services

• Handling Concurrency in the Entity Framework
• Transactional Support in the Entity Framework

15. Building Optimized Solutions by Using Object Services

• The Stages of Query Execution
• Change Tracking and Object Materialization
• Using Compiled Queries
• Using Design-Time Generated Entity Framework Views
• Monitoring Performance
• Performing Asynchronous Data Modifications

16. Customizing Entities and Building Custom Entity Classes

• Overriding Generated Classes
• Using Templates to Customize Entities
• Creating and Using Custom Entity Classes

17. Using POCO Classes with the Entity Framework

• Requirements for POCO Classes
• POCO Classes and Lazy Loading
• POCO Classes and Change Tracking
• Extending Entity Types

18. Building an N-Tier Solution by Using the Entity Framework

• Designing an N-Tier Solution
• Defining Operations and Implementing Data Transport Structures
• Protecting Data and Operations

19. Handling Updates in an N-Tier Solution by Using the Entity Framework

• Tracking Entities and Persisting Changes
• Managing Exceptions in an N-Tier Solution

20. Building Occasionally Connected Solutions

• Offline Data Caching by Using XML
• Using the Sync Framework

21. Querying Data by Using WCF Data Services

• Introduction to WCF Data Services
• Creating a WCF Data Service
• Consuming a WCF Data Service
• Protecting Data and Operations in a WCF Data Service

22. Updating Data by Using WCF Data Services

• Creating, Updating, and Deleting Data in a WCF Data Service
• Preventing Unauthorized Updates and Improving Performance
• Using WCF Data Services with Nonrelational Data

23. Using ADO.NET

• Retrieving and Modifying Data by Using ADO.NET Commands
• Retrieving and Modifying Data by Using DataSets
• Managing Transactions and Concurrency in Multiuser Scenarios

24. Using LINQ to SQL

• Implementing a Logical Data Model by Using LINQ to SQL
• Managing Performance and Handling Concurrency