Courses - Complete-C-Sharp-using-VS-2010

Alto’s Complete C# course provides a solid foundation in the C# programming language, object oriented programming techniques, the .NET type system and commonly used .NET APIs. Attendees will use Visual Studio 2010 to build families of related classes using encapsulation, inheritance and classical / interface based polymorphism. In addition, attendees will learn the full scope of the .NET type system (including generics, delegates, events, value types and enumerations) and understand how to configure applications using XML configuration files. This course covers the Windows Forms API, and will give attendees experience working with the graphical designers of Visual Studio 2010 as well as coverage of File IO, the role of attributes, object serialization and database access using ADO.NET. The course concludes with a survey of additional .NET APIs and strategies for further learning.

Course Outlines

Learning Objectives

Understand the object oriented capabilities of C#
Understand the .NET type system (classes, interfaces, structures, enumerations and delegates)
Understand how build custom class libraries and how to configure applications
Know the role of several core .NET APIs, including Windows Forms, ADO.NET and object serialization

Audience
This class is intended for developers with little or no experience with C# or .NET. Previous experience with OO languages (Java / C++) is helpful but not mandatory.

Prerequisites

Students should be comfortable working with the Windows operating system.
Students should have experience using graphical IDEs to build and debug software applications.
Students will ideally have some exposure to OOP concepts, however this is not mandatory.

The Philosophy of .NET

Understand the scope of the .NET platform
Understand the role of the Common Type System (CTS)
Understand the role of the Common Language Specification (CLS)
Understand the role of the Common Language Runtime (CLR)
Know the distinction between an assembly, namespace and type
Understand the role of the Common Intermediate Language (CIL)
Understand the role of the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI)
Work with the C# command line compiler (csc.exe)
Survey several popular .NET languages and IDEs

C# Language Fundamentals

Learn the role of the Main() method
Process user provided command line arguments
Define basic C# classes
Examine looping and decision constructs
Learn the role of the out, ref and params keywords
Understand optional and named arguments
Understand the role of method overloading

Object Oriented Programming with C#

Understand the role of encapsulation
Work with C# property syntax
Understand object initialization syntax
Understand the scope of the “static” keyword
Define constant and read-only data
Use inheritance to establish parent / child relationships between classes
Define a “polymorphic interface” for a family of classes
Work with virtual and abstract methods
Work with structured exception handling (try / catch / throw / finally)
Understand the role of interfaces
Know the rules of explicit type casting

Common Language Runtime Fundamentals

Understand value types vs. reference types
Build custom structures
Know the role of System.Object
Process string data and arrays of data
Build custom enumerations
Create and use custom namespaces
Work with delegates and events

Understanding .NET Generics

Understand the motivation for generics
Examine the System.Collections.Generic namespace
Learn to build custom generic methods
Learn to build custom generic types
Understand the role of generic constraints

Understanding .NET Assemblies

Examine the internal composition of .NET assemblies
Distinguish between private and shared assemblies
Create application configuration files (*.config)
Understand the .NET versioning scheme
Install shared assemblies into the GAC
Understand the role of publisher policy assemblies

Desktop Development using Windows Forms

Understand how to build desktop graphical user interfaces (GUIs)
Understand the Form and Application classes
Handle keyboard and mouse events
Understand how to render custom graphics via the Paint event
Visual create GUIs using the Visual Studio designer tools
Learn how to build Windows Forms dialog boxes
Understand Form inheritance

File IO and Object Serialization

Learn to manipulate a machine’s directory and file structure
Open, read, write, and close text files
Know the role of .NET attributes
Understand the role of object serialization
Learn to save object graphs to file in a variety of formats

Introducing ADO.NET

Understand the basic ADO.NET model
Work with DataReaders
Work with DataSets and DataAdapters
Work with the DataView class

A Survey of Additional .NET APIs

Be introduced to the role of several important .NET APIs (WPF, WCF, LINQ and ASP.NET)
Examine strategies for continued learning

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