.NET Programming with C# Training Course

Who should attend

Our intro to C# .NET training course is aimed at anyone who needs to understand the fundamental principles of .NET programming with C#, in order to be able to then go on to develop commercial Windows, Web (ASP.NET Core MVC, Blazor), server-side or other Microsoft-based solutions. The course is well suited to experienced developers coming from backgrounds such as JavaScript, PHP, or Java.

Bring your own device (public scheduled .NET courses in London)

Our C# .NET training features lots of hands-on practical exercises using Visual Studio 2022 so to save time you can install it on your laptop before your course - it's easy to obtain and free to use. That means you can take away all the code you've worked on for further study or even to kick-start your next .NET project.

Prerequisites

Delegates should be comfortable with programming essentials, but no previous Object Oriented Programming experience is assumed (although some OOP experience would certainly be helpful).

Live, instructor-led online and on-site training

We appreciate that you need flexibility to fit in with new working situations - whether you're an individual, part of a distributed team, or simply have projects and deadlines to meet. 

Our remote training can take place online in a virtual classroom, with content split into modules to accommodate your scheduling challenges and meet your learning goals. Get in touch today to find out how we can help design a cost-effective, flexible training solution.

As soon as it's safe, we'll return to also offering the on-site custom training courses and programmes upon which we've built our reputation.

Introduction to C# and .NET

• .NET Framework building blocks
• Hello world in C#
• Using Visual Studio 2019
• Creating your first .NET application

Core C# Language Features

• C# Language Features
• Operators
• Conditional statements
• Pattern matching
• Loops

Defining Types

• Essential concepts
• Classes, objects, and arrays
• Value types
• Nullable types

Defining Members

• A closer look at parameters
• Construction and destruction
• Properties

Going Further with Types and Members

• Static members
• Operators
• Partial types
• Partial methods

Inheritance and Interfaces

• Inheritance
• Additional inheritance techniques
• Interfaces
• Object disposal
• Additional interface techniques

Delegates, Events, and Lambda Expressions

• Delegates
• Anonymous methods and lambdas
• Expression-bodied members
• Events

Using .NET Framework APIs

• Exception handling
• Collections
• Regular expressions

Generics in C#

• Getting started with generics
• A closer look at generics
• Generic delegates, interfaces
• Generic methods
• Generic Classes

Additional C# Language Features

• Tuples
• Initialization
• Anonymous types
• Extension methods

LINQ to Objects

• Introduction to LINQ
• Using LINQ with arrays
• Using LINQ with collections
• LINQ techniques

ADO.NET Entity Framework

• Introduction to the Entity Framework
• Creating a simple entity data model
• Using entities in an application
• Creating a full entity data model

Additional / Appendix Topics

These are topics which can be considered for inclusion in custom On-Site .NET training - take a look also at our other .NET training courses for module ideas.

Overview of ASP.NET Core MVC

• Introduction to ASP.NET Core MVC
• Understanding controllers
• Understanding view

Parallelization and Asynchronous Methods

• Traditional threading techniques using the Thread class
• Thread Synchronization
• Parallelization
• Async methods

Creating Rest services

• The name "REST"
• What is a REST service?
• HTTP verbs
• HTTP response codes
• Key principles of REST services

What's new in C# 8

• Nullable reference types
• Improved pattern matching
• Miscellaneous language features
• Asynchronous streams

What's new in C# 9

• Top-level programs
• Init-only properties
• Record types
• Positional record types
• Covariant returns
• Target-typed new expressions
• Target-typed conditional expressions
• Function pointers
• Additional new features

Assemblies and Deployment

• Understanding assemblies
• Deploying private assemblies
• Deploying shared assemblies
• Understanding WinMD files

Reflection and Metadata

• Reflection
• Late binding
• Assembly metadata
• Using CodeDom

Entity Framework POCOs

• Getting started with POCOs
• Configuration
• Working with POCO objects

Entity Framework - Going Further with Mapping

• Mapping scenarios
• Table Per Hierarchy (TPH)
• Table Per Type (TPT)
• Table Per Concrete Type (TPC)

File Handling and Serialization

• Accessing the file system
• Using file streams
• Data contract serialization
• Runtime serialization
• XML serialization

Dynamic Programming

• Using the dynamic keyword
• Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR)

Monitoring and Debugging Applications

• Working with application processes
• Managing application performance
• Windows event log
• Debugging and tracing applications