Summary: This course is designed to get attendees up and running in the Microsoft .NET environment using the Visual C# programming language in the Visual Studio.NET development environment. Attention is paid to the underlying .NET platform to provide a solid grounding to work on when programming within it.

Prerequisites: Delegates must possess the ability to program in some programming language. It does not matter whether this is a Windows-based programming language or not

Duration: 4 days

Location: This course is run on-site at the customer's premises

Overview Agenda
Detailed Agenda

Overview Agenda

.NET platform overview

• What is .NET
• .NET benefits
• ECMA & the CLI
• Cross-platform support
• Microsoft's CLR
• Namespaces
• Assemblies
• FCL Overview
• .NET Tools
• Deployment options
• Interoperability

C# programming

• Introduction to C#
• Predefined Types
• Variables & Constants
• Application Structure
• Namespaces
• Linking to Assemblies
• Boxed Values
• Arrays
• Methods & Parameters
• Objects
• Object Finalization
• Statements
• Expressions
• Attributes & metadata
• Pre-processor directives
• Class specifics
• Interfaces

Visual Studio .NET introduction

• Terminology
• Project management
• Project directory structure
• Useful keystrokes

Applying C# in .NET

• Interoperability
• Reflection
• Web services

Detailed Agenda

.NET platform overview

• What is .NET
• Myths & truths
• .NET benefits
• Security
• Interoperability
• Common class library
• ECMA & the CLI
• CTS
• CLS
• CIL
• Metadata
• JIT
• VES
• Garbage collection
• Managed/unmanaged code/data
• Safe/unsafe/verifiable code
• Platform portability
• Cross-platform support
• Microsoft .NET
• Microsoft Shared Source CLI
• Ximian Mono
• DotGNU Portable.NET
• Microsoft's CLR
• Namespaces
• Assemblies
• Metadata & custom metadata
• Side-by-side execution
• Versioning & strong/weak naming
• Assembly caches
• FCL Overview
• Tour of key namespaces
• .NET Tools
• Framework tools
• Framework SDK tools
• Deployment options
• Interoperability
• .NET & COM
• .NET & Win32

C# programming

• Introduction to C#
• Predefined Types
• Value types
• Reference types
• Enumerated types
• Strings & string literals
• Variables & Constants
• Initialisation rules
• Static & readonly fields
• Application Structure
• Fundamental basics of C#
• Namespaces
• Linking to Assemblies
• Boxed Values
• Boxing & unboxing
• Arrays
• Methods & Parameters
• Overloading
• Static methods
• Reference & output parameters
• Objects
• Common behaviour
• Creating objects
• Garbage collection
• Object Finalization
• Finalizer methods & destructors
• Non-deterministic finalization
• Deterministic finalization
• Statements
• Selection
• Iteration
• Jump
• Exception handling
• Expressions
• Assignment operators
• The conditional operator
• Casts
• Attributes & metadata
• Custom metadata
• Pre-processor directives
• Class specifics
• Inheritance
• Member accessibility
• Polymorphism
• Properties
• Events & delegates
• Operator overloading
• Interfaces
• Defining interfaces
• Implementing interfaces
• Extracting interfaces

Visual Studio .NET introduction

• Terminology
• Project management
• Project directory structure
• Useful keystrokes

Applying C# in .NET

• Interoperability
• COM Interop
• Platform Invocation Service
• Reflection
• Custom attributes
• Examining metadata at runtime
• Web services