Overview

Microsoft's .NET Framework presents developers with unprecedented opportunities. From web applications to desktop and mobile platform applications - all can be built with equal ease, using substantially the same skill-set. But to make the most of this potential, developers must have a thorough grasp of language skills and object oriented programming concepts (OOP).

This course concentrates on the C# programming language itself, to fully prepare delegates in readiness for using the .NET Framework/Core. No Object-Orientated knowledge is assumed. From basic procedural syntax to sophisticated object-oriented programming techniques, delegates will learn how to write .NET code that is robust and maintainable.

The course is presented as a mixture of lectures, demos and hands-on exercises. Practical sessions follow all main topics, designed to reinforce the points covered.

This intensive course is intended for developers who will use C# to write .NET Framework or .NET Core applications and who are relatively new to the C# programming language.

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Prerequisites

Delegates must understand the fundamentals of programming. Delegates can gain this level of knowledge by attending QA's 'Programming Foundations' (QAPROGFOU) course

Please note:

  • Delegates attending this course via Extended Classroom will be required to provide dual monitors.
  • Before attending this course, delegates must have a Microsoft account (signing up one is free). The instructions on how to set up a Microsoft account can be found here.

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Learning Outcomes

  • Write code that includes sequence, selection and iteration constructs
  • Create and use classes and structures (types), including fields, properties, methods and delegates
  • Use private, internal, protected and public visibility modifiers
  • Use exception handling to create robust applications
  • Create derived classes that inherit from custom-written or .NET classes
  • Create interfaces and apply techniques of polymorphism effectively and appropriately
  • Work with generic types
  • Leverage the power of C# features
  • Use delegates
  • Use lambda expressions in C# code
  • Use LINQ (Language Integrated Query)

In addition to the above, the following practice is introduced during the course:

  • Test-Driven Development using XUnit
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Course Outline

Module 1: Course Introduction

Module 2: Introduction to C#

  • The .NET Framework; Compilation; The Common Language Runtime; The Common Type System
  • What is C#?
  • Top-level statements
  • Namespaces and using directives
  • Get to know your way around Visual Studio
  • An introduction to debugging
  • Start using Unit Test

Module 3: Variables and Datatypes

  • Comments and identifiers
  • Variables and built-in datatypes
  • Value types versus reference types
  • Built-in value types: integral, floating point, bool, char, structs and enums
  • Reference types: object, strings, object instantiation
  • Variable scope and access modifiers
  • Operators
  • Parsing and casting

Module 4: Conditionals

  • If statements
  • Switch statements and switch expressions
  • Ternary conditional operator
  • Null-coalescing and null-conditional operators

Module 5: Loops and Collections

  • Arrays
  • Foreach loops
  • For loops
  • While loops
  • Do loops
  • Generic collections: List and Dictionary
  • Collection operators

Module 6: Object Oriented Programming (OOP)

  • Why object orientation?
  • OOP concepts and unified modelling language (UML)
  • Classes and instantiation
  • Association and aggregation
  • Inheritance and interfaces

Module 7: Methods

  • Methods and positional and named parameters
  • Method overloading
  • Return values
  • Expression-bodied methods
  • Passing parameters: by value and by reference
  • Static methods and the using static directive
  • Extension methods

Module 8: Properties and Constructors

  • Fields
  • Properties with backing fields
  • Expression-bodied properties
  • Auto-implemented properties and calculated properties
  • How to access properties
  • Constructing objects: constructors and expression-bodied constructors
  • Constructor overloading and chaining
  • Object initializers
  • Static constructors
  • The ‘this’ keyword

Module 9: Inheritance and Abstract Classes

  • Inheritance
  • Derived constructors
  • Polymorphism
  • Virtual members and overriding
  • Invoking base class functionality
  • Abstract classes
  • Upcasting and safe down-casting
  • Overriding System.Object
  • Sealed classes and members

Module 10: Interfaces

  • Creating and implementing interfaces
  • Polymorphism
  • Interfaces with default implementation
  • Interface inheritance
  • implementing interfaces explicitly

Module 11: Delegates and Lambdas

  • Delegates: Func and Action
  • Lambda expressions
  • The Predicate delegate

Module 12: Language Integrated Query (LINQ)

  • LINQ syntax
  • Projections
  • Deferred execution and immediate execution
  • Joins and aggregations
  • The let clause
  • The OfType method

Module 13: Exception Handling

  • Exception handling keywords: try, catch, finally, throw
  • Understanding execution flow
  • Throwing exceptions
  • Custom exceptions
  • Filtered exceptions
  • Inner exceptions

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Special Notices

Please note, Effective 30th of June 2022, this course will be on .NET 5 & 6, C# 9 and Visual Studio 2022.

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