U2U has built up since the alpha version of .NET in 1999 the past decennia a strong position as a company in EMEA delivering .NET and Visual Studio focused courses and workshops. Microsoft awarded several of our trainers with the Microsoft Ambassador, Microsoft Most Valued Professional (MVP) and Microsoft Regional Direct (RD) status for .NET as they are very active in the .NET community.

There is a huge need for .NET training at all levels within organizations today. Therefore, U2U has compiled a variety of courses targeting each of the .NET related technologies. Today most of our courses focus on Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5, more and more we receive requests on .NET 3.5 SP1 and we started with Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 beta courses...

Introduction to .NET

A very popular course for non-developers who want to get introduced in the .NET technology is our "Executive overview" course, introducing .NET as enterprise application platform and positioning the .NET related technologies as SharePoint, SQL Server, BizTalk Server, Windows Server... A very popular course for non-developers who want to get introduced in the .NET technology is our "Executive overview" course. You will learn about .NET as a set of software technologies enabling an enterprise application platform for the business applications of your organization. We will position the .NET related technologies as SharePoint, SQL Server, BizTalk Server, Windows Server... Trainers are Wim Uyttersprot, director of U2U Training and Mr. Kris Vandermotten, technical director at U2U Consult.

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 essential courses

Are you starting as developer with Visual Studio 2008 and .NET? Choose your preferred programming language C# or VB.NET and register for the UCSPR2 or UVBNE2 course.

If you have already working experience as .NET developer or if you are migrating as JAVA programmer to .NET, a better choice might be the UNOOP2 course; the UNOOP2 course will offer a more advanced learning path on Object Oriented programming in .NET, covering also more in depth topics as multithreading, security, configuration...

Programming the Presentation Layer in .NET 3.5

As C# or VB.NET programmer, you can learn how to program Windows Forms applications, Web applications, or Enterprise applications. Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight are Microsoft's newest technology to create Rich Windows and Internet Applications (RIA).

Programming Enterprise applications in .NET 3.5 with Visual Studio 2008

In enterprise applications, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Workflow Foundation (WF) are fundamental technologies, and the U2U courses on those topics are very popular among our students: Windows Communication Foundation is Microsoft's framework for building communication into your application in a consistent and efficient manner. Workflow Foundation is an extensible library specifically targeted for building workflow into applications.

For developers who have to cover the whole development process needed to create successful distributed and service oriented .NET enterprise applications using .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008, we designed the courses UNETE3. If you want to learn about Pattern programming in .NET you may opt for the UARCH course, in which one we also cover the Microsoft Enterprise Library.

Visual Studio 2008 Team System

In the UTEAM course your trainer Peter Himschoot will let you discover how Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) fits into the software development lifecycle from the point of view of the different team roles: project manager, architect, developer and tester. Focus of this course is how to adopt VSTS within your organization.

Become a MS Certified Professional Developer on Visual Studio 2008

Dreaming of the CV that opens all doors? Let your dream come true and become a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD) or Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP). Both credentials are the premium certification for developers and db professionals who build custom business solutions with Microsoft development tools, technologies, and platforms. The new MCPD- and MCITP-tracks includes certification exams that test users' ability to develop Windows- and Web-based, distributed, and service oriented applications by using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5.