Learning to Program Using Visual C#® 2008 - Online Course

This course runs from 3.30pm to 10.00pm - includes refreshment break and Q&A sessions.

In this course, you’ll learn to use Visual Studio 2008 to explore the Visual C# language. The course starts with a quick overview of the .NET platform, examining assemblies, Microsoft Intermediate Language, Visual Studio profiles, XML comments, IntelliSense, and debugging. From there, you’ll learn all the language features that you must internalize in order to create full-featured Web or Windows applications that make best use of the .NET platform. You’ll learn about data types, variables, and operators, along with all the important flow control structures. You’ll work through several examples demonstrating the power of the .NET Framework, and dig into creating and consuming your own classes and objects. The course moves on to working with data structures, such as arrays and collection classes, before finishing up with discussions of generics, handling exceptions and working with delegates and events. The course concludes by introducing the new LINQ-oriented features added to the .NET Framework 3.5, including anonymous types, lambda expressions, and more. By the end of this course, you will understand the important basic concepts that will allow you to start creating the applications you need.

This course assumes that students have some programming background. No specific experience with Visual Studio 2008 or the .NET Framework is required. As with any such course, the more experience you bring to the course, the more you’ll get out of it. This course moves quickly through a broad range of programming topics, but it does not require any prior .NET skills.

Topics covered on the 3 day Learning to Program Using Visual C#® 2008 - Online course

Getting Started

• Thinking about .NET
• Using Visual Studio 2008
• Debugging and Handling Exceptions

Data Types and Variables

• Introducing Variables and Data Types
• Working with Variables and Data Types

Using the .NET Framework

• Using .NET Framework Classes
• Working with Strings
• Working with Dates and Times

Branching and Flow Control

• Branching in Code
• Repeating Code Blocks Unconditional Branching

Classes and Objects

• Introducing Objects and Classes
• Creating Your Own Classes
• Working with Classes

Properties and Methods

• Overview of Properties and Methods
• Properties
• Methods

Object-Oriented Techniques

• Inheritance
• Interfaces
• Organizing Classes

Working with Arrays

• Introducing Arrays
• Manipulating Arrays
• Creating Indexers

Delegates and Events

• Motivating Delegates
• Introducing Delegates
• Working with Events

Generics

• Introducing Generics
• Generics and Arrays
• Generic Interfaces
• Generic Constraints
• Generics and Lists

Handling Exceptions

• Perspectives and Exception Handling
• Getting Started with Exception Handling
• Catching Specific Exceptions
• Raising Errors
• Running Code Unconditionally
• Creating Exception Classes

Collection Classes

• Generics, Collections, and Interfaces
• The Generic List
• Working with Dictionaries, Stacks, and Queues
• Creating Your Own Generic Collection Classes

New Language Features

• LINQ and Languages
• Implicitly Typed Local Variables and Object Initializers
• Lambda Expressions, Extension Methods, and Anonymous Types