Course Details

Duration: 3 Days

Delegates should have a solid understanding of Java or C++.

Overview

This course introduces Java or C++ programmers to C# and the fundamentals of building and deploying applications on the .NET platform.

Fundamental Concepts of .NET

• Compiling to Intermediate Language (IL)
• The Common Language Runtime (CLR)
• Comparing the CLR and the Java VM
• The Common Type System (CTS)
• Assemblies and Application Domains
• Running the C# compiler manually
• Examining assemblies using ILDASM
• Locating and loading assemblies
• Deploying assemblies to the GAC

Creating and Compiling Applications

• Installing and running Visual Studio (VS)
• Creating new solutions and projects in VS
• Building console and GUI based applications
• Building and referencing class libraries
• Building ASP based Web Applications and Web Services

Useful Development Tools

• Writing unit tests with NUnit
• Creating NAnt and MSBuild deployment scripts
• Object Persistence with NHibernate

Procedural Coding and Built In Objects

• Basic types and their CTS mappings
• Understanding the object class
• Using Strings and StringBuilders
• Converting between basic types
• Boxing and unboxing basic types
• Constructs for iteration and selection
• Working with the three types of array
• Documenting C# code using XML

Object Oriented Development Part One

• Class declarations in C#
• Understanding partial classes
• Organizing classes into namespaces
• Access modifiers and their meaning
• Declaring fields using the static, readonly, constant and volatile modifiers
• Adding constructors to classes
• Using other constructors via this and base
• Object initialization in detail
• Using properties instead of Java accessor (getter and setter) methods
• Allowing clients to use array notation by implementing an indexer method
• Destructor methods and finalization
• Comparing GC in Java and .NET
• Declaring methods and parameters
• Passing parameters by reference and for output
• Using variable number parameters

Object Oriented Development Part Two

• Declaring derived classes
• Polymorphism with virtual and override
• Opting out of polymorphism using new
• Safe downcasting using is and as
• Abstract base classes and Interfaces
• Releasing resources via IDisposable
• Differentiating between Java Inner Classes and C# Nested Classes
• Throwing and catching exceptions
• Comparing the exception management philosophies of Java and C#

Event Handling in .NET

• Understanding function addressing
• Using delegates to hold function addresses
• Working with anonymous delegates
• Adding events to a class
• Customizing the event model

Generic Programming in C#

• Introduction to Generic Programming
• How generics works within the CLR
• Using the generic collection classes
• Declaring your own generic types
• Applying constraints to type parameters
• Examining generic types via reflection

Advanced Language Features

• How to overload operators
• Using structs to create local objects
• Pointers and unsafe code