Learning Objectives

• 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 the .NET's object-oriented features, such as overloading, inheritance and interfaces
• Store, retrieve, and manipulate 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 tapes, lambda expressions, extension methods, object intilializers, and implicit type declaration

Prerequisites 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 get out of it. This course moves quickly through a broad range of programming topics, but it does not require any prior .NET skills

Getting Started with .NET

• Thinking about .NET
• Using Visual Studio 2008
• Debugging Your Code and Handling Exceptions

 Data Types and Variables 

• Introducing Variaables 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
• The My Namespace 

Branching and Flow Control 

• Conditional Branching
• Repeating Code Blanks
• Unconditional Branching

Classes and Objects 

• Introducing Objects and Classes
• Creating Your Own Class
• Working with Classes 

Properties and Methods

• Working with Properties
• Working with Methods

Object Oriented Techniques

• Inheritence
• Interfaces
• Organizing Classes

Working with Arrays

• Introducing Arrays
• Manipulating Arrays 

Delegates with Events

• Motivating Delegates
• Introducing Delegates
• Working with Events

 Generics

• Introducing Generics
• Generics and Arrays
• Generic Interfaces
• Generic Constraints
• Generics and Lists 

 Handling Exceptions

• Perspective 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

 Language Extensions for LINQ

• New Language Features
• Implicitly Typed Local Variables and Object Initializers
• Lambda expressions, Extension Methods, and Anonymous Types