Sams Teach Yourself .Net in 21 Days

By Jason Beres

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • About the Author
  • About the Technical Editor
  • Acknowledgments
  • We Want to Hear from You
  • Introduction
  • Week 1: At a Glance
  • Day 1. Introduction to the Microsoft .NET Framework
  • Day 2. Introduction to Visual Studio .NET
  • Day 3. Writing Windows Forms Applications
  • Day 4. Deploying Windows Forms Applications
    • Introduction to Application Deployment
    • Introduction to the Microsoft Windows Installer Service
    • Understanding the Deployment Projects Templates
    • Creating a Windows Installer Package
    • Adding Merge Modules to Your Setup
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Quiz
    • Exercises
  • Day 5. Writing ASP.NET Applications
  • Day 6. Deploying ASP.NET Applications
  • Day 7. Exceptions, Debugging, and Tracing
  • Week 1. In Review
  • Week 2: At a Glance
  • Day 8. Core Language Concepts in Visual Basic .NET and C#
  • Day 9. Using Namespaces in .NET
  • Day 10. Accessing Data with ADO.NET
  • Day 11. Understanding Visual Database Tools
  • Day 12. Accessing XML in .NET
  • Day 13. XML Web Services in .NET
  • Day 14. Components and .NET
  • Week 2. In Review
  • Week 3: At a Glance
  • Day 15. Writing International Applications
  • Day 16. Using Macros in Visual Studio .NET
  • Day 17. Automating Visual Studio .NET
  • Day 18. Using Crystal Reports
  • Day 19. Understanding Microsoft Application Center Test
  • Day 20. Using Visual SourceSafe
  • Day 21. Object Role Modeling with Visio
  • Week 3. In Review

Quiz

1. True or False: You can use the Visual Basic 6 Setup and Deployment Wizard to package both .NET and Visual Basic 6 applications.

   False. The Visual Basic 6 Setup and Deployment Wizard only recognizes the .VBP extension as a valid project type.

2. The ________________ template is what I should use to create Windows Forms deployment projects.

   Setup Project Template

3. True or False: You should use a third-party compression utility to makes files smaller before using them in an MSI file.

   False. The Windows Installer packages are already compressed.

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