C#.net 2005 Programming

Course Overview

This course will introduce the attendees to C#, the Microsoft, standards based, Object Oriented (OO) language that is a cornerstone of Microsoft's .NET range.

The course will cover, in depth, the syntax and structure of C#. In addition, it will give an overview of the .NET initiative and explain the key concepts of OO. C# is a major player in the OO development world that is likely to assume a dominant role among languages in the next few years. C# is one of the languages supported in the latest release of Microsoft's IDE (Integrated Development Environment) Visual Studio, called Visual Studio. NET. C# programs can also be developed outside of the .Net environment.

Audience

All developers requiring the skills to develop in Microsofts C# language

Skills Gained

At the end of the course, the attendees will understand:

• .NET, the .NET Framework, and the role C# plays in .NET
• The key concepts of Object Orientation
• The structure of a C# program
• The difference and usage of value and reference types
• Fields and variables
• How to compile a C# program and the compiler options
• How namespaces are used to create a hierarchy of classes
• How to build loops and control logic in C#
• How C# implements classes, inheritence, polymorphism
• How to implement Methods in C#
• The usage of the abstract, virtual, override and new modifiers
• The role of access modifiers
• The difference between ref, out, and params when passing parameters to a method
• The use of the base and this keywords in methods
• How to implement method and operator overloading
• The purpose and advantages offered by properties and indexers
• The difference between static and non-static
• The use of static methods and fields
• The functionality offered via constructors
• How to implement multiple constructors on a single class
• The difference between Classes and Structs and where they should be used
• How to handle exceptions
• The role of delegates and events
• How to build multithreaded programs

Prerequisites

An understanding of programming and the system development process. Knowledge of OO would be useful but is not essential as the course will cover the key concepts of OO.

Course Outline

Introduction

• What is .NET?
• What are C# and MSIL?
• Introduction to Visual Studio .NET
• .NET SDK and tools

C# Fundamentals

• Console I/O
• Simple "Hello World!" program
• Comments and documenting
• Common language runtime
• Base class library
• Namespaces

Type Hierachy

• Object and basic types
• References and values
• Boxing

Classes vs Structures

• Constructors
• Fields and methods
• Overloading
• static and constant
• public private protected sealed
• Properties and Indexers
• Destructors
• Garbage collection

Iteration and Flow of Control

• Relational operators
• Collections (ArrayList, HashTable)
• for and foreach loops
• while and do-while loops
• Conditional expression
• Switch statement

Arrays

• Initialisation
• Accessing an arrays
• Multi-Dimensioned arrays

Exception Handling

• Exceptions
• try...catch
• try...finally
• Throwing exceptions

Inheritance - Polymorphism

• Virtual methods
• Abstract methods
• Override methods

Interfaces

• Defining Interfaces
• Implementing interfaces
• IComparable, Icloneable

C# Event Model

• Delegates and events
• Streams
• FileStream
• StreamReader
• StreamWriter
• WinForms
• Simple Windows application
• Event handling

Threading Support

• Threads and synchronization

Performance in C#

• Writing code to maximize performance

Raw access

• unsafe and fixed

Reflection

• Querying for type information
• AppDomain

Interoperability

• With Win32
• With COM
• With other .NET modules

Assemblies

• Private vs Shared
• Strong Names
• Versioning

How it fits together

• Accessing databases
• ADO.NET, ASP.Net
• and WebServices

C#.net 2005 Programming / CSHP