This objective may include but is not limited to: evaluating design requirements and then selecting the most appropriate control based on those requirements; recognizing when none of the standard controls meet requirements; item controls, menu controls, content controls

This objective does not include: designing a custom control

This objective may include but is not limited to: using panel-derived controls, attaching properties

This objective does not include: items controls, control customization

This objective may include but is not limited to: application-level styles, overriding styles, style inheritance, Generic.xaml, theming attributes

This objective does not include: data-grid view style sharing

This objective may include but is not limited to: fonts, styles, data sources, images, resource dictionaries, resource-only DLLs

This objective may include but is not limited to: creating a storyboard; controlling timelines; controlling the behavior when the animation completes; double, color, and point animations; starting an animation from code and from XAML

This objective does not include: direct rendering updates, implementing key frame animations

This objective may include but is not limited to: tunneling vs. bubbling events, handling and cancelling events

This objective does not include: simple event handling; creating custom events

This objective may include but is not limited to: defining WPF commands based on RoutedCommand; associating commands to controls; handling commands; command bindings; input gestures

This objective does not include: creating custom commands by implementing ICommand

This objective may include but is not limited to: adding/removing controls at run time; manipulating the visual tree; control life cycle; generating a template dynamically

This objective does not include: instantiating forms and simple modification of control properties at runtime

This objective may include but is not limited to: deciding whether to use a user/composite, extended, or custom control ; creating a user/composite control; extending from an existing control

This objective does not include: creating a custom control by inheriting directly from the Control class and writing code

This objective may include but is not limited to: creating and displaying graphics by using geometric transformation; brushes; drawing shapes; clipping; double buffering; overriding Render (WPF) and OnPaint (WinForms); differentiating between retained and non-retained graphics

This objective does not include: creating and displaying three-dimensional graphics; hit testing; creating images

This objective may include but is not limited to: media player vs. media element; adding a sound player; images

This objective does not include: buffering

This objective may include but is not limited to: template binding

This objective does not include: styling and theming; data templating

This objective may include but is not limited to: binding options, static and dynamic resources, element bindings, setting the correct binding mode and update mode; binding to nullable values

This objective does not include: binding to a specific data source

This objective may include but is not limited to: implementing custom value converters, implementing multivalue converters

objective may include but is not limited to: handling validation and providing user feedback via the error provider (WinForms) or data templates (WPF), IDataErrorInfo, validation control, form validation and control validation

This objective may include but is not limited to: implementing INotifyPropertyChanged; using INotifyCollectionChanged (ObservableCollection)

This objective may include but is not limited to: filtering, sorting, and grouping data; LINQ; CollectionView (WPF), BindingSource object (WinForms)

This objective may include but is not limited to: TreeView; MenuControl

This objective may include but is not limited to: using the DataGridView (WinForms) or DataGrid (WPF) control to display and update the data contained in a data source, implementing complex data binding to integrate data from multiple sources; ItemsControl-derived controls (WPF)

This objective may include but is not limited to: implementing a data template selector; using templates with ItemsControl

This objective may include but is not limited to: using ElementHosts within WinForms and ControlHosts within WPF; using the PropertyMap property

This objective may include but is not limited to: implementing asynchronous programming patterns; marshalling between threads; freezing UI elements; using timers; Task Parallel Library; parallel LINQ; using the dispatcher; BackgroundWorker component

This objective may include but is not limited to: loading resources by locale; marking localizable elements; using culture settings in validators and converters; using language properties and rendering direction properties; working with resource files for localization; determining installed locales; regional settings

This objective does not include: Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)

This objective may include but is not limited to: configuring Software Restriction Policy (SRP); full trust and partially trusted security; interoperability with legacy CAS policy; User Account Control (UAC)

This objective may include but is not limited to: creating application settings; creating user settings; loading and saving settings

This objective does not include: persisting to database

This objective may include but is not limited to: enabling data binding and animation, property metadata, property change callbacks

This objective may include but is not limited to: automation peer, UI automation, IntelliTrace

This objective may include but is not limited to: accessing the Visualizer, drilling down into the visual tree, viewing and changing properties

This objective does not include: setting a breakpoint and stepping through code

This objective may include but is not limited to: animation, data binding, dependency properties

This objective may include but is not limited to: configuring the installation of a WinForms, WPF, or XBAP application by using ClickOnce technology; choosing appropriate settings to manage upgrades

This objective may include but is not limited to: configuring a setup project to add icons during setup, setting deployment project properties, configuring conditional installation based on operating system versions, setting appropriate Launch Conditions based on the .NET Framework version, adding custom actions to a setup project, adding error-handling code to a setup project

This objective may include but is not limited to: configuring and integrating UAC by using ClickOnce deployments; setting appropriate security permissions to deploy the application

This objective may include but is not limited to: page directives such as ViewState, request validation, event validation, MasterPageFile; ClientIDMode; using web.config; setting the html doctype

This objective does not include: referencing a master page; adding a title to a Web form

This objective may include but is not limited to: creating and applying themes; adding multiple content placeholders; nested master pages; control skins; passing messages between master pages; switching between themes at runtime; loading themes at run time; applying a validation schema

This objective does not include: creating a master page; basic content pages

This objective may include but is not limited to: resource files, browser files, CurrentCulture, currentUICulture, ASP:Localize

This objective may include but is not limited to: IsPostback, IsValid, dynamically creating controls, control availability within the page life cycle, accessing control values on postback, overriding page events

This objective may include but is not limited to: data caching; page output caching; control output caching; cache dependencies; setting cache lifetimes; substitution control

This objective does not include: distributed caching (Velocity)

This objective may include but is not limited to: server-side technologies, for example, session and application; client-side technologies, for example, cookies and ViewState; configuring session state (in proc, state server, Microsoft SQL Server; cookieless); session state compression; persisting data by using ViewState; compressing ViewState; moving ViewState

This objective may include but is not limited to: client side, server side, and via AJAX; custom validation controls; regex validation; validation groups; datatype check; jQuery validation

This objective does not include: RangeValidator and RequiredValidator

This objective may include but is not limited to: AssociatedControlID; Web parts; navigation controls; FileUpload controls

This objective does not include: label; placeholder, panel controls; CSS, HTML, referencing CSS files, inlining

This objective may include but is not limited to: registering a control; adding a user control; referencing a user control; dynamically loading a user control; custom event; custom properties; setting toolbox visibility

This objective may include but is not limited to: composite controls, INamingContainer, adding a server control to the toolbox, global assembly cache, creating a custom control event, globally registering from web.config; TypeConverters

This objective does not include: postback data handler, custom databound controls, templated control

This objective may include but is not limited to: HTML encoding to avoid cross-site scripting, navigating through and manipulating the control hierarchy; FindControl; controlRenderingCompatibilityVersion; URL encoding; RenderOuterTable

This objective does not include: Visibility, Text, Enabled properties

This objective may include but is not limited to: referencing client ID; Script Manager; Script combining; Page.clientscript.registerclientscriptblock; Page.clientscript.registerclientscriptinclude; sys.require (scriptloader)

This objective does not include: interacting with the server; referencing JavaScript files; inlining JavaScript

This objective may include but is not limited to: using jQuery, adding, modifying, or removing page elements, adding effects, jQuery selectors

This objective does not include: AJAX

This objective may include but is not limited to: DOM events, custom events, handling events by using jQuery

This objective may include but is not limited to: client-side templating, creating a script service, extenders (ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit), interacting with the server, Microsoft AJAX Client Library, custom extenders; multiple update panels; triggers; UpdatePanel.UpdateMode; Timer

This objective does not include: basic update panel and progress

This objective may include but is not limited to: $.get, $.post, $.getJSON, $.ajax, xml, html, JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), handling return types

This objective does not include: creating a service

This objective may include but is not limited to: using membership, using login controls, roles, location element, protecting an area of a site or a page

This objective does not include: Windows Live; Microsoft Passport; Windows and Forms authentication

This objective may include but is not limited to: role, membership, personalization, aspnet_regsql.exe

This objective does not include: creating custom providers

This objective may include but is not limited to: generic handlers, asynchronous handlers, setting MIME types and other content headers, wiring modules to application events

This objective may include but is not limited to: handling Application_Start, Session_Start, and Application_BeginRequest in global.asax, capturing unhandled exceptions, custom error section of web.config, redirecting to an error page; try and catch; creating custom exceptions

This objective may include but is not limited to: adding service reference, adding Web reference, changing endpoints, wsdl.exe, svcutil.exe; updating service URL; shared WCF contracts assembly

This objective does not include: creating WCF and ASMX services

This objective may include but is not limited to: local assemblies, shared assemblies (global assembly cache), Web application projects, solutions, settings file, configuring a Web application by using web.config or multiple .config files; assemblyinfo

This objective may include but is not limited to: remote, local, JavaScript debugging, attaching to process, logging and tracing, using local IIS, aspnet_regiis.exe

This objective may include but is not limited to: pre-compilation, publishing methods (e.g., MSDeploy, xcopy, and FTP), deploying an MVC application

This objective does not include: application pools, IIS configuration

This objective may include but is not limited to: advanced customization of DataList, Repeater, ListView, FormsView, DetailsView, TreeView, DataPager, Chart, GridView

This objective does not include: working in Design mode

This objective may include but is not limited to: ObjectDataSource, LinqDataSource, XmlDataSource, SqlDataSource, QueryExtender, EntityDataSource

This objective does not include: AccessDataSource, SiteMapDataSource

This objective may include but is not limited to: transforming data by using LINQ to create XML or JSON, LINQ to SQL, LINQ to Entities, LINQ to objects, managing DataContext lifetime

This objective does not include: basic LINQ to SQL

This objective may include but is not limited to: WCF, Web service; server to server calls; JSON serialization, XML serialization

This objective does not include: client side, ADO.NET Data Services

This objective may include but is not limited to: dynamic data controls, custom field templates; connecting to DataContext and ObjectContext

This objective may include but is not limited to: route constraints, route defaults, ignore routes, custom route parameters

This objective may include but is not limited to: Visual Studio support for right-click context menus; action filters (including Authorize, AcceptVerbs, and custom) and model binders; ActionResult sub-classes

This objective may include but is not limited to: single project areas (for example, route registration, Visual Studio tooling, and inter-area links); organizing controllers into areas; shared views; content files and folders

This objective may include but is not limited to: built-in and custom HTML helpers (for example, HTML.RenderAction and HTML.RenderPartial), strongly typed views, static page checking, templated input helpers, ViewMasterPage, ViewUserControl

This objective does not include: Microsoft.Web.Mvc Futures assembly