Advanced C# Programming Training Course

Who should attend

.NET Developers who want to get up to speed quickly with the latest and most advanced features of C# using Visual Studio 2019

Prerequisites

Attendance of our Introduction to .NET Programming with C# training course or equivalent experience of developing C# .NET Applications (Windows or Web) - and a good understanding of Object Oriented Programming.

This Advanced C# course is available for private / custom delivery for your team - face-to-face at your location of choice, or remotely via MS Teams, Zoom or your own platform - get in touch to find out how we can deliver tailored .NET training which focuses on your project requirements and learning goals.

We can take into account your existing technical skills, and explore specific topics of interest.

This can be particularly useful if you need to learn just the new features and Best Practices with Visual Studio 2022, or need to include extra topics to help with pre-requisite skills.

We can also focus on previous C# and Visual Studio versions depending on your current production platform, if required.

Please note, topics marked "annex" are optional and are included subject to demand and time-permitting.

Advanced C# course syllabus

The topics below, up until "Database Programming" comprise days 1-4 of our public scheduled Advanced C# training course. Below that are additional topics that can be incorporated in private customised deliveries of the course. Please get in touch if you have any questions about course content, pre-requisite skills, setup or anything else.

Pattern Matching ##

• Constant Patterns
• Discard Patterns
• Variable Patterns
• Relational Patterns
• Tuple Patterns
• Property Patterns
• Type Patterns
• List Patterns

Regular Expressions ##

• How Regex Works
• The Regex Class
• RegexOptions
• Regex Backtracking
• Regular Expressions Best Practices

Threading ##

• Multithreading - An Overview
• The Thread Class
• ThreadPool Threads
• GUI Applications & Threads

Tasks ##

• The Task Parallel Library
• Data Parallelization
• Task Parallelization
• Continuations
• Nested Tasks
• Task Scheduling
• PLINQ

Thread Synchronisation (requires Threading or Tasks) ##

• Atomicity – the Interlocked class
• The Volatile Class
• Auto / Manual ResetEvent
• Mutex
• Semaphore
• SemaphoreSlim  
• Monitor
• [Synchronization]
• Concurrent Collections

Async / Await ##

• Async methods

Database Programming ####

• ADO.NET
• Overview of Entity Framework
• Entity Framework 6
• Entity Framework Core

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Further Topics for "mix and match" custom C# training

For custom courses you may choose from any of the topics listed above and / or below. Each topic is given a sharp (#) rating. A full day's training is four sharps (####). Topics may be combined to construct a course of the desired duration. e.g. a four day course may contain topics totalling 16 sharps.

Dynamic Programming #

• The dynamic keyword
• Using The Dynamic Language Runtime

Unmanaged Code Integration ###

• Unmanaged Code
• Pinned memory
• GC and unmanaged code
• PInvoke
• Com Interop
• Inline Assembler Language

Design Patterns ####

• Overview of design patterns
• Creational Patterns
• Structural Patterns
• Behavioural Patterns
• Anti-Patterns

Reflection ###

• Introduction to reflection
• Metadata & assemblies
• System.Type
• The System.Reflection namespace
• Examining types using reflection
• Loading assemblies
• Reflection.Emit

Custom Attributes (requires Reflection) ###

• Attributes Overview
• Defining and accessing custom attributes

Code Dom ##

• Overview of CodeDom
• Compiling code
• Using interfaces effectively
• Using reflection effectively
• Using Reflection Emit
• Creating dynamic methods
• Working with builder classes

Test Driven Development ##

• TDD concepts
• Tooling for TDD in .NET
• Creating unit tests
• Mocking
• Coverage
• Following a TDD approach to development