Target Audience:

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.

You will learn how to:

• Build and debug applications using Visual Studio 2008
• Create and use variables, operators, and data types
• Find and use the classes you need within the .NET Framework
• Manage flow control within your code, branching and looping as needed
• Create and consume classes and objects
• Add and consume properties and methods in your classes
• Make use of .NET's object-oriented features, such as overloading, inheritance and interfaces
• Store, retrieve, and manipulate multiple values using arrays
• Work with .NET generics
• Make best use of the .NET Framework's support for collection classes
• Handle exceptions in your code
• Create and use delegates, and understand how they relate to events
• Use anonymous types, lambda expressions, extension methods, object initializers, and implicit type declaration

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

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