If you're a developer or want to be one, the Microsoft Official Curriculum courses that we teach can help you achieve that goal. The MCSD requirements are available online. While we don't teach all the available electives, you're sure to find something of interest in the catalog. Training can be delivered on site at your facility, thus saving you travel costs and lost productivity.

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ASP.NET and Web Services

ASP.NET makes building real world Web applications dramatically easier. ASP.NET server controls enable an HTML-like style of declarative programming that let you build great pages with far less code than with classic ASP. Unlike classic ASP, which supports only interpreted VBScript and JScript, ASP.NET now supports more than 25 .NET languages (including built-in support for VB.NET, C#, and JScript.NET -- no tool required), giving you unprecendented flexibility in your choice of language.

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Software Design

These courses cover topics included on Test 70-100, Designing Solution Architectures. The course topics overlap somewhat, so you may be able to get the skills you need by taking only one or two of the courses. In addition, many of the topics covered are also covered in many basic software design courses you may have taken.

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SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server is one of the best database products on the market. For an MCSD, learning and being certified on SQL Server can count as an elective test towards MCSD. Below are the classes that we teach that deal with SQL Server. The current MCSD-related tests for SQL Server are available for both SQL 7.0 and SQL Server 2000.

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Visual Basic .NET

Microsoft .NET is Microsoft's platform for creating and using Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based Web services. This platform will enable developers to create programs that transcend device boundaries and harness the connectivity of the Internet, as well as help them be more productive with their time. The .NET platform also represents a fundamental shift in development technology. Microsoft developer training is here to make getting up to speed on .NET easier.

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Visual Basic 6.0

Knowledge of one language is a core requirement of the MCSD certification, and Visual Basic is the most popular choice. It's easy to learn but it has a lot of features that you may never have used. The courses in this section will help fill out your knowledge of Visual Basic 6.0 in order to pass the tests. You also have the option to choose C++ or FoxPro to fulfill your requirement, but VB is by far the most popular language to use. Two language tests are required, and the courses listed below will cover your requirements using Visual Basic 6.0.

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Visual C# .NET

C# was created to be the programming language best suited for writing enterprise applications for .NET. C# combines the high productivity of Microsoft Visual Basic® with the raw power of C++. It is a simple, object-oriented, and type-safe programming language that is based on the C and C++ family of languages.

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