Objectives

The goal of this course is to provide students with the knowledge and skills needed to develop C# applications for the .NET 2005 Platform. The course focuses on C# program structure, language syntax, and implementation details.

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• List the major elements of the .NET Framework and explain how C# fits into the .NET Platform.
• Analyze the basic structure of a C# application and be able to document, debug, compile, and run a simple application.
• Create, name, and assign values to variables.
• Use common statements to implement flow control, looping, and exception handling.
• Create methods (functions and subroutines) that can return values and take parameters.
• Create, initialize, and use arrays.
• Explain the basic concepts and terminology of object-oriented programming.
• Use common objects and references types.
• Create, initialize, and destroy objects in a C# application.
• Build new C# classes from existing classes.
• Create self-contained classes and frameworks in a C# application.
• Define operators, use delegates, and add event specifications.
• Implement properties and indexers.
• Use predefined and custom attributes.

Main topics

• Overview of the Microsoft .NET platform
• Introduction to the .NET platform
• Overview of the .NET framework
• Benefits of the .NET framework
• The .NET framework components
• Languages in the .NET framework
• Overview of C#
• Structure of a C# program
• Basic input/output operations
• Recommended practices
• Compiling, running, and debugging
• Using value-type variables
• Common type system
• Naming Variables
• Using built-in data types
• Creating user-defined data types
• Converting data types
• Statements and exceptions
• Introduction to statements
• Using selection statements
• Using iteration statements
• Using jump statements
• Handling basic exceptions
• Raising exceptions
• Methods and parameters
• Using methods
• Using parameters
• Using overloaded methods
• Arrays
• Overview of arrays
• Creating arrays
• Using arrays
• Essentials of Object-Oriented programming
• Classes and objects
• Using encapsulation
• C# and Object Orientation
• Defining Object-Oriented systems
• Using reference-type variables
• Using reference-type variables
• Using common reference types
• The object hierarchy
• Namespaces in the .NET framework
• Data conversions
• Creating and destroying objects
• Using constructors
• Initializing data
• Objects and memory
• Using destructors
• Destroying objects
• Inheritance in C#
• Deriving classes
• Implementing methods
• Using sealed classes
• Using interfaces
• Using abstract classes
• Aggregation, namespaces, and advanced scope
• Using internal classes, methods, and data
• Using aggregation
• Using namespaces
• Using modules and assemblies
• Operators and events
• Introduction to operators
• Operator overloading
• Creating and using delegates
• Defining and using events
• Properties and indexers
• Using properties
• Using indexers
• Attributes
• Overview of attributes
• Defining custom attributes
• Retrieving attribute values