Skills:

• Describe the high-level architecture of an enterprise solution that uses the Microsoft enterprise development strategy.

• Explain the terminology and concepts of Windows DNA 2000.

• Describe some key features of the Windows 2000 platform that relate to enterprise development.

• Identify Microsoft tools and technologies used in enterprise development.

• Identify some of the best practices in building distributed enterprise solutions.

• Describe the high-level design of the Purchase Order application used in the labs for this course.

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Designing and Modelling

• Introduction to Analysis and Design

• Creating a Conceptual Design

• Creating a Logical Design

• Creating a Physical Design

• Lab: Reviewing the Requirements Document

• Lab: Using the Visual Modeler

Skills:

• List and describe the three design phases defined in the MSF application model.

• Employ UML use cases, scenarios, and use-case diagrams in the conceptual design phase.

• Use UML class diagrams and sequence diagrams in the logical design phase.

• Use Visual Modeler to create class diagrams.

• Use component diagrams and deployment diagrams in the physical design phase to generate code from Visual Modeler.

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Introduction to COM+

• From COM to COM+

• COM+ Architecture

• Administering COM+ Applications

• Debugging a COM+ Component

• Deploying a COM+ Application

• Lab: Building a COM+ Application

• Lab: Debugging COM+ Components

Skills:

• Describe how COM and MTS have evolved to become COM+.

• List and describe the COM+ services.

• Create and add a component to a COM+ application.

• Debug a COM+ component.

• Deploy a COM+ application.

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Managing Transactions and State

• COM+ Context

• Just In Time (JIT) Activation

• Managing Transactions

• Programming COM+ Transactions

• Managing State

• Using the Shared Property Manager

• Lab: Using Context Object Services

• Lab: Programming COM+ Transactions

• Lab: Storing State in the Middle Tier

Skills:

• Use the context object to retrieve information about a COM+ component.

• Add transaction support for COM+ components by using the Component Services tool.

• Enable JIT activation for COM+ components.

• Create COM+ components that support and manage distributed transactions.

• Use the Shared Property Manager to manage the application data referred to as state.

• Describe some of the best practices when managing transactions and state.

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Queued Components and Events

• Introduction to Queued Components

• Working with Queued Components

• Handling Events

• Publisher and Subscriber Architecture

• Working with Events

• Lab: Creating and Using Queued Components

• Lab: Creating and Using Event Classes

• (Optional) Lab: Combining Queued Components and Events

Skills:

• Describe the purpose and benefits of queued components.

• Create a queued component.

• Instantiate and communicate with a queued component.

• Describe the COM+ Event Service provided with Windows 2000.

• Create and use an event class to match publishers with subscribers.

• Combine queues with events to make the processing of publisher and subscriber events time-independent.

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Integrating with Active Directory

• Overview of Directory Services

• Using ADSI to Access Active Directory

• Using ADO to Query Active Directory Data

• Lab: Using ADSI

• Lab: Using ADO

Skills:

• Describe directory services.

• Describe the benefits of integrating with Active Directory.

• Describe the Active Directory programming model.

• Access Active Directory data by using Active Directory Service Interface (ADSI).

• Query for Active Directory objects by using ADO.

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Universal Data Access with ADO 2.5

• Using ADO 2.5

• Retrieving Data from a Database

• Accessing Web Data

• Lab: Accessing Data from a Web Site

Skills:

• Describe the major components of the ADO 2.5 object model.

• Describe how to use ADO to access databases efficiently.

• Use the Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Internet Publishing with ADO 2.5 to retrieve hierarchical data from a Web site.

• Use the Recordset, Record, and Stream objects to access Web-based data.

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Making Applications Secure

• Overview of Windows 2000 Security

• Declarative Security

• Programmatic Security

• Setting the Identity of a Server Application

• Lab: Implementing Declarative Security

• Lab: Implementing Programmatic Security

• Lab: Assigning a COM+ Application Identity

Skills:

• Describe the major security features and security models provided by the Windows 2000 platform.

• Explain how authentication and authorization work.

• Describe the authentication options available to Internet solutions based on COM+ and Internet Information Services (IIS).

• Declaratively implement security by using COM+ roles.

• Implement programmatic security by using security context information.

• Understand how COM+ application identity affects security.

• Describe best practices for implementing security in enterprise solutions.

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Using XML to Exchange Data

• Introduction to XML

• Validating XML Documents

• Using the Document Object Model

• Applying XML in N-Tier Applications

• Lab: Exchanging Data Using XML

Skills:

• Describe the purpose and benefits of XML.

• Describe the structure of a well-formed XML document.

• Describe the purpose of XML schemas and DTDs.

• Manipulate XML by using the Document Object Model.