Module 1: Enhancing User Interfaces by Using System.Drawing
This module describes the key features of the System.Drawing namespace that the .NET Framework provides. It also explains how to create and modify your own custom drawings.
- Drawing Fundamentals
- Drawing Lines and Shapes
- Rendering Bitmaps and Icons
Module 2: Working with Cultures by Using System.Globalization
This module describes how to use the System.Globalization namespace to work with culture information and perform culture-sensitive string comparisons. It also describes how to create a custom culture.
- Working with Culture Information
- Formatting and Sorting Culture-Sensitive Data
- Creating a Custom Culture
Module 3: Processing Text by Using Regular Expressions and Encodings
This module describes the key features of the System.Text namespace that the .NET Framework provides. It explains how to store and manipulate strings, how and when to implement regular expressions, and how to customize encodings to produce the correct results when you process text
- Handling Text and Large Strings
- Using Regular Expressions
- Encoding Text
Module 4: Encrypting and Hashing Data by Using Cryptography
This module describes when to use data encryption and hashing and explains how to use the classes in the .NET Framework 2.0 to perform these cryptographic tasks. It also discusses how to customize the implementation of specific algorithms by extending base classes in the System.Security.Cryptography namespace
- Working with Encryption and Hashing
- Encrypting and Decrypting Data
- Hashing Data
- Extending Cryptography
Module 5: Securing Code Execution and Resources
This module describes how code access security (CAS) works, how to make CAS permission checks in code, and how to configure CAS security policy. It also introduces Windows operating system access checks and explains how to use the .NET Framework base class library to read and modify Windows access control lists (ACLs). This module also describes how .NET Framework security performs authorization checks and how to customize the mechanism.
- Using Code Access Security
- Securing Code Execution by Using Policy
- Securing Resources by Using Access Control
- Customizing Authentication and Authorization
Module 6: Application Interoperability
This module describes how to invoke functions that are implemented in unmanaged DLLs, and how to use various techniques for integrating Component Object Model (COM) components into managed applications. It also explains how to make managed components that are built by using the .NET Framework available to unmanaged COM client applications
- Using the Platform Invoke Service
- Integrating COM Components into a .NET Framework Application
- Integrating Managed Components into an Unmanaged Application
Module 7: Reflection, Metadata, and Emitting Objects
This module describes how to use the classes in the .NET Framework 2.0 class library to examine a program, alter the behavior or structure of the program as it runs, and create and run new code.
- Reflecting on Objects
- Adding Assembly Metadata
- Emitting Objects by Using Builder Classes
Module 8: Services, Threading, and Application Domains
This module describes how to use the Microsoft .NET Framework classes to write Windows services and classes to install services. It also explains how to use the .NET Framework classes to create thread objects to execute code and to synchronize execution between threads. Finally, this module describes how to access and configure application domains.
- Creating and Installing Windows Services
- Creating Multithreaded Applications
- Manually Working with Application Domains