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Testing and Instrumenting Applications in VB.NET

Course Status:	Released	Courseware Features
Course Language:	English
Course Duration:	4 Hours
Deployment Options:	Online, Interactive CDs, Network,

Audience

Windows developers seeking to update their knowledge of and skills in developing, testing, and debugging software applications in Visual Studio .NET or pursuing MCAD or MCSD .NET certificate

Prerequisites

Familiarity with Visual Basic .NET syntax and the main tasks involved in using the Visual Studio .NET integrated development environment

Course Aim

This learning path presents the main concepts of testing, debugging, maintaining, and optimizing Windows applications in the .NET development environment. It demonstrates how generic techniques and methods for software unit testing can be applied as part of the development process in Visual Studio .NET. It details the programmatic facilities of the .NET Framework for debugging and instrumenting VB. NET applications. Using demonstrations, samples, and case studies, it introduces and explains in detail the interactive debuggers included in Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework SDK. The learning path also explores the use of the Windows performance monitoring API and the Windows event log in monitoring and optimizing deployed applications.

Learning Objectives

To introduce the concepts of software testing and debugging and to describe the use of the Debug and Trace programmatic classes in the .NET Framework class library and the Visual Studio .NET and SDK interactive debuggers

Topics Covered

Software testing Introduction to software testing Code standards and reviews Software-testing techniques Testing software Instrumenting .NET applications Conditional compilation in .NET The .NET Debug and Trace classes .NET trace switches Using .NET trace listeners Using C# Debug and Trace classes Interactive debugging in Visual Studio .NET Interactive-debugging basics in VS.NET The main debugger windows in VS.NET Execution control in the VS.NET debugger Monitoring the state of an application with VS.NET Advanced .NET debugging techniques Using VS.NET for interactive debugging in C#