.NET Programming Fundamentals

Building applications with Visual Studio

• Managing projects with Solution Explorer
• Setting project properties and adding references
• Adding files, folders and code
• Compiling, debugging and testing programs

Coding object-oriented applications

• Dividing code into classes
• Adding fields, methods properties, events and constructors to classes
• Defining scope and visibility

C# Language Syntax

Working with data types and conversions

• Strings
• Dates and time
• Integers
• Real numbers
• Booleans
• Performing calculations with mathematical operators
• Converting between data types

Controlling program execution

• IF statements
• CASE (switch) statements
• For...Next loops
• Do While...loops

Handling errors

• Throwing exceptions
• Try...Catch...Finally error handling
• Using the debugger

Automating testing with Visual Studio

• Creating Visual Studio test projects
• Writing unit tests
• Testing classes, properties, method and exceptions
• Stepping through code with the debugger

Crafting Windows Applications

Windows application basics

• Creating forms and controls
• Navigating with menus
• Automating code with the Toolbox and Properties window

Event-driven programming

• Handling events from the user interface
• Declaring and raising events
• Displaying dialog forms

Designing Object-Oriented Applications

Separating application responsibilities into classes

• Single responsibility principle
• Inheriting a base class
• Overriding methods in derived classes

Reusing code from multiple projects

• Creating a class library in Visual Studio
• Setting references

Programming Web Applications with ASP.NET

Constructing ASP.NET Websites with Visual Studio

• Writing HTML pages and forms
• Maintaining consistency with Master Pages
• Designing pages with ASP.NET controls
• Styling sites with ASP.NET themes

Processing ASP.NET Web Forms

• Displaying data and gathering user input
• Initializing Web Forms controls
• Activating Web Forms with events
• Maintaining variables with Sessions

Controlling website access

• Configuring Web Forms security
• Setting up a user login page
• Automating user account creation

Incorporating Relational Databases

Relational database concepts

• Employing databases for fast, efficient storage
• Selecting, inserting, updating and deleting query syntax

Creating a SQL Server database

• Adding tables, fields and indexes
• Defining primary and foreign key relationships

Accessing the database with ADO.NET

• Connecting to the database and running SQL commands
• Storing user information
• Retrieving existing records

Deploying .NET Applications

• Installing the .NET Framework
• Publishing applications with ClickOnce
• Moving ASP.NET applications to the web

C# Programming

Introduction to the C# Language

The evolution of C#

• Comparing different versions of C#
• Expressing C# models in UML

C# and the .NET infrastructure

• Common Language Infrastructure (CLI)
• Managed code philosophy
• Common Intermediate Language (CIL) and metadata

Language Fundamentals

Data types and control constructs

• Declaring implicit and explicit variables
• Value and reference types
• Unicode characters and strings

Defining and calling methods

• The Main method specification
• Passing arguments and returning values
• The scope and lifetime of variables
• Named and symbolic methods
• Handling exceptions
• Recovering resources

Employing .NET library classes

• Avoiding collisions by using namespaces
• Performing I/O using the stream class and serialization
• Standard and Generic Collections

Developing C# Classes

Defining classes

• Encapsulating attributes with methods and properties
• Providing consistent initialization using constructors
• Overloading methods and constructors
• Achieving reuse through inheritance and polymorphism

Creating and using objects

• Allocating object memory with new
• Passing initial values to constructors
• Choosing value or reference allocation
• Boxing and unboxing
• Invoking methods and accessing properties

Interconnecting Objects

Associating classes

• Manipulating references
• Physical vs. logical equivalence
• Selecting collection library classes
• Increasing reliability using generics

Exposing interfaces

• Defining an interface specification
• Implementing an interface in a class
• Interface polymorphism
• Events and delegates

Simplifying Component Development

Component features of .NET

• Manifests and assemblies
• Deploying components and applications
• .NET assembly metamodel

Writing .NET components in C#

• Creating and calling custom components
• Extending System.ComponentModel.Component

Interfacing legacy components

• Accessing COM/DCOM
• Tools for forward and backward compatibility
• Calling existing components

Integrating C# with other languages

• Harmonizing components through the CLI
• Accessing metadata
• Handling cross-language differences

Implementing and Enhancing C# Solutions

Building multitier applications

• Leveraging solid architectures (MVC and EDM)
• Substituting the user interface
• Coding industry-standard design patterns in C#
• Distributing a C# application

Working with relational databases

• Accessing databases with the Entity Framework (EF)
• Integrating C# extended features with LINQ

Standards and versions

• Standardization via ECMA/ISO
• Features in various C# standards

Advanced techniques

• Automating documentation with XML
• Implementing the IEnumerable interface
• Invoking extension methods
• Employing events, delegates and lamda expressions
• Specifying development attributes

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