The Philosophy of .NET
 

• COM Problems, .NET Solutions
  
• The Common Type System (CTS)
  
• The Common Language Specification (CLS)
  
• The Common Language Runtime (CLR)
  
• The Assembly, namespace, type distinction
  
• Contrasting single file and multifile assemblies
  
• The Common Intermediate Language (CIL)
  
• Survey of the .NET Namespaces
  
• Platform independent .NET (Mono / Portable .NET distributions)
  
• Choosing a managed language (C#, VB 2005, MC++)
  
• Developing with the C# command line compiler (csc.exe)
  
• Developing with Visual Studio 2005

Building .NET Applications in C#

• Defining class types using C#
  
• Processing command line arguments
  
• Looping and decision constructs
  
• Method overloading C# parameter modifiers (out, ref, params)
  
• Working with structured exception handling
  
• Building custom exception objects

Object Oriented Programming with C#

• Constructors and finalizers 
• Encapsulation via type properties
  
• Static fields, members and constructors
  
• The const and readonly modifiers
  
• Implementation inheritance and virtual members
  
• Abstract base classes / abstract members
  
• Interface based polymorphism
  
• Explicit interface implementation
  
• Rules of type casting
  
• Nexted types
  
• Operator overloading

Common Language Runtime Fundamentals

• Understand value types vs. reference types
  
• The role of System.ValueType
  
• The role of System.Object
  
• Understand boxing and unboxing
  
• The role of System.Array
  
• The role of System.String
  
• The role of System.Enum
  
• Building custom namespaces
  
• Understanding delegate types
  
• The delegate / event relationship

C# 2.0 Language Features

• Designing partial types
  
• Static class definitions
  
• C# nullable types (via the ? and ?? operators)
  
• Delegate Covariance and Contravariance
  
• Understanding Anonymous Methods
  
• Understanding Method Group Conversion

Generics

• The motivation for generics
  
• System.Collections
  
• Generic Building custom generic members
  
• Building custom generic types
  
• Constraining type parameters

Understanding .NET Assemblies

• Assembly characteristics
  
• Contrast private and shared assemblies
  
• Deploying and configuring private assemblies
  
• Cross language inheritance
  
• Understanding the role of strong names
  
• Deploying and configuring shared assemblies
  
• Understand publisher policy assemblies
  
• Working with codebase

Programming Windows Forms

• Understand the derivation of a Form type
  
• The role of the Application class
  
• Working with the .NET 2.0 strip controls
  
• Handle keyboard events
  
• Handle mouse events
  
• The role of GDI+ (System.Drawing)
  
• Construct dialog boxes
  
• Understand form inheritance

Reflection and Attribute Based Programming

• The role of reflection and System
  
• Type Dynamic loading of external assemblies
  
• The role of late binding
  
• Understand attribute based programming
  
• Building custom attributes
  
• Building extendable software

Input, Output and Object Serialization
 

• Survey the System IO namespace
  
• Learn to manipulate a directory and file structure
  
• Open, read, write and close text files
  
• The role of object serialization
  
• The BinaryFormatter / SoapFormatter types

Data Access with ADO.NET

• Understand the ADO.NET object model
  
• Working with ADO.NET DataReaders
  
• Working with Command types
  
• Build parameterized queries
  
• Triggering stored procedures via ADO.NET
  
• Work with ADO.NET DataSets and DataAdapters
  
• Understand ADO.NET DataRelation types
  
• Work with DataView types

ADO.NET 2.0 Specific Features
 

• The element
• Working with connection string builder objects
• The data provider factory pattern
• DataTables as DataReaders

Web Development with ASP.NET 2.0

• Examine the architecture of an ASP.NET 2.0 Web Application
  
• Survey the ASP.NET namespaces
  
• The ASP.NET development server (webdev.webserver.exe)
  
• The single file and code file development models
  
• Understand the role of the Page type
  
• A survey of ASP.NET 2.0 Web Controls
  
• Interacting with the request / response
  
• Working with session and application data

Building (and consuming) XMLWeb Services

• Understand the role of XML Web Services
  
• The role of the [WebMethod] attribute
  
• The role of the Web Service Description Language (WSDL)
  
• Expose custom types from an XML Web Services
  
• Generating client proxies