.NET: Developing Applications Using C#

Form programming

• Creating a form project and library
• Form design
• Form navigation
• Standard nomenclature
• Introduction to object-oriented programming
• Properties, methods and events
• IntelliSense, comments and syntax errors
• Exception assistant and debugging runtime errors

Numeric data and strings

• Built-in value types
• Initialization and declaration of variables and constants
• Naming conventions
• Assignment operators
• Implicit and explicit casting
• Common methods
• Concatenation and special characters
• Number formatting
• Lifetime and visibility
• Enumerations and binary operations
• Nullable types

Programming control structures

• Relational operators
• Logical operators
• Conditional commands
• Loops
• Use of "break" and "continue

Programming methods and events

• Creating methods
• Passing parameters by reference or by value
• Creating and using events
• Using anonymous methods

Exception handling

• Use of try, catch, finally
• Using debugging windows
• Creating custom exception classes

Using arrays and collections

• One-dimensional arrays
• Rectangular arrays
• The Array class
• Conditional null operator
• Common collections
• Typed and untyped collections

Dates and strings

• Date and time calculation
• Using TimeSpan
• Using the String class and Char
• The StringBuilder class
• Date formatting
• Interpolated strings

Debugging applications

• The call stack
• Error list
• Breakpoints
• Variable windows
• Step-by-step execution

Creating and using classes

• Application architecture
• Creating a base class
• Creating a derived class
• Instantiating a class
• Static classes, methods and properties

Inheritance and polymorphism

• Adding properties and methods
• Replacing methods
• Using "Protected" and "Internal
• Using "Abstract" and "Override
• Using polymorphism with base classes

Interfaces and generics

• Implementing various interfaces
• Using polymorphism with interfaces
• Using generics

Data sources and datasets

• DataSet and DataTable
• Using the SQL data provider
• Modifying data in offline mode
• Rapid prototyping of form-based access to a data table
• Binding controls to data

ADO.NET and data access

• Coding SQL queries using the System.Data.SQLClient namespace
• Form programming to manipulate data from a filter
• Using SqlDataReader

LINQ and Entity Framework

• Defining a LINQ query
• Using Lambda expressions
• Expressions using LINQ and generics
• Using a delegate
• Creating extension methods

Entity Framework

• Using the NuGET platform
• Installing the Entity Framework (EF)
• Reviewing the conceptual model, registration and data mapping
• Programming a form with EF

File system

• Review of System.IO
• Creating files
• Reading and writing files
• Creating a mini-notepad