IT-Microsoft® Visual Studio.NET Certificate, Madison Area Technical College, MATC

IT-Microsoft® Visual Studio.NET Certificate

Program Number: 90-152-5

Certificate

Information Technology Program Cluster

Center for Agriscience and Technologies

Program offered at the following campuses:

Truax, Madison

For information call: (608) 246-6800 or 1-800-322-6282 ext 6800

About the Program

This certificate is designed to prepare IT professionals and second-year Information Technology degree students to use Microsoft’s new Visual Studio.NET© applications development suite. Each student takes programming courses in Visual Basic.NET©. In addition, the students take a course in ASP.NET giving them experience and understanding of web services provided with these products. Students also take a course in ActiveX Data Objects (ADO.NET) giving them training in database access that provides platform interoperability and scalable data access. This IT–Microsoft Visual Studio.NET© Certificate allows students to augment skills learned in Information Technology two-year associate degree programs.

Visual Studio.NET© is Microsoft’s tool for building next-generation web applications and XML web services. Visual Studio.NET empowers developers to design broad-reach Web applications for any device and any platform. In addition, Visual Studio.NET is built on, and fully integrated with, the Microsoft.NET Framework. This integration enables Visual Studio.NET to provide support for multiple programming languages and to perform many common programming tasks automatically—freeing developers to rapidly create web applications using their language of choice.

This certificate program is being aligned with the Microsoft® Certified Applications Developer (MCAD) exams, which will lead to Microsoft® Certified Application Developer (MCAD) certification. For further information see the Microsoft® Website.

The certificate will be awarded upon completion of the requirements with minimum of a 2.0 grade average and no course grade lower than a C. Students are responsible for contacting the enter upon completion of the required classes. Certificate will be awarded after completion of all requirements is verified.

Admissions Requirements for All Applications Submitted for the Current Academic Year

Students must be second-year students in an Information Technology programming degree or a minimum of three years of related work experience. The student is expected to have exposure to a relational database management system (RDBMS) (e.g., Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, DB2 or an equivalent). The course 10-152-124, Microsoft Access Development, may be taken if a student does not have work experience with an RDBMS. The student is also expected to have exposure to a programming language (e.g. COBOL, Visual Basic, C++, Java, etc.) either through professional experience or IT department coursework.

Apply directly to the Department. The completed application form should include verification of years of employment, if necessary. No application fee is required for this certificate.

Visual Studio, .NET, C#, Visual Basic, ASP.NET, ADO.NET and Microsoft® are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.

Career Potential

Applications Developer