Course prerequisites:

Experience in object-oriented programming is highly beneficial

Course attendees:

The course is intended for anyone migrating to the .NET framework, and wants to gain a solid, robust understanding of the technology and its application with the C# language

Course syllabus

Module 1: Introduction to .NET and C#

• What is .NET?
  The Common Language Runtime (CLR)
• The Common Type System (CTS)
• Introduction to C#
• Namespace and Assemblies basics
• Viewing metadata with ILDasm and Reflector
• Introduction to Visual Studio 2010
• Creating a simple C# Console Application
• .NET Overview – from .NET 1.0 to .NET 4.0

 Module 2: C# Language Fundamentals

• Procedures and Statements
• Data Types
• Declaring Variables
• The var keyword
• Assignments
• Conversions
• Arithmetic and Other Operators
• Control Constructs

Module 3: Types

• Type Concepts
• Value Types vs. Reference Types
• Fields, Properties and Methods
• Method Overloading
• Default and Optional Arguments
• Accessibility Modifiers
• Automatic Properties
• Construction and Assignment
• The Simple Types
• The null Reference
• Static and Instance Members
• Enumerated Types
• Partial Classes
• Static Classes
• Nested Types

Module 4: Inheritance

• What is Inheritance?
• Extending a Class
• Polymorphism
• Upcasts and Downcasts
• Virtual and Override Modifiers
• New and Sealed Modifiers

Module 5: Abstract Classes and Interfaces

• Abstract Classes
• Abstract Methods and Properties
• Interfaces
• Interfaces and Polymorphism
• Standard Interfaces: IEnumerable, IComparable, IComparer
• Side Casts
• The is and as Operators
• Multiple Interfaces
• Explicit Interface Implementation

Module 6: Arrays, Collections and Strings

• Arrays
• Initializing Arrays
• The Array Class
• Multi-dimensional Arrays
• Jagged Arrays
• Indexers
• Standard Collections: ArrayList, Stack, Queue, Hashtable
• The String Type
• String Members
• The StringBuilder Type
• String Literals

Module 7: Exceptions

• Errors vs. Exceptions
• Error Handling Options
• The try block
• The catch block
• The throw statement
• The finally block
• Standard Exception Classes
• Custom Exceptions
• Checked and Unchecked Expressions
• Exception Handling Guidelines

Module 8: Generics

• The Need for Generics
• Generic Types
• Standard Generic Collections
• Generic Methods
• Generic Interfaces
• Generic Constraints
• Nullable Types
• Other Aspects of Generics

Module 9: Reflection and Attributes

• Metadata and Reflection
• Getting Information about Types
• The Type Class
• Dynamic Invocation
• Dynamic Creation
• Custom Attributes
• Applying Attributes
• Setting and Querying Attributes
• Introduction to the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)

Module 10: Delegates and Events

• Delegate Basics
• Creating Delegates
• Invoking Delegates
• The Delegate and MultiCastDelegate Types
• Anonymous Delegates
• Generic Delegates
• Events
• The Publisher / Subscriber Pattern

Module 11: Managing Resources

• Garbage Collection and its Impacts
• The Managed Heap
• Object Creation and Destruction
• The Garbage Collection Process
• Finalization
• Deterministic Finalization
• The IDisposable Interface
• The Dispose Pattern
• The using keyword
• The GC Class
• GC Types
• Other issues with Resource Management

 Module 12: Namespace and Assemblies

• Namespaces
• The using keyword (with namespaces)
• Assemblies
• Assembly loading
• The Global Assembly Cache (GAC)
• Deploying Assemblies
• Versioning and Probing

Module 13: Advanced Language Constructs

• Partial Methods
• Iterators
• Extension Methods
• Lambda Expressions
• Object and Collection Initializers
• Anonymous Types
• Introduction to LINQ

Module 14: C# 4.0

• Default and Named Arguments
• Dynamic Binding and dynamic keyword
• Custom Binding
• Generic Co- and Contra-Variance

 Module 15: Data Streams and Files

• The Stream Abstract Class
• The FileStream Class
• File I/O
• The File and FileInfo Classes
• The Path Class
• The Directory and DirectoryInfo Classes
• Stream Readers and Writers

 Module 16: Debugging and Tracing

• The Debug Class
• The Trace Class
• Debug vs. Release Builds
• The AnyCPU Configuration
• Advanced Tracing
• The DebugView Tool

 Module 17: Threading

• Processes and Threads
• Threading Basics
• The Thread Class
• Starting Threads
• Synchronization Basics
• The lock keyword
• Other Threading Issues
• The Asynchronous Programming Model (APM)
• Asynchronous Delegates

 Basic SQL:

• Introduction to SQL
• Select
• Delete
• Update
• Insert
• Data filtering conditions