C# Training Course - Learn .NET

This course is aimed at anyone who needs to understand the fundamental principles of .NET programming with C#. This will give you the foundational skills 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.

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

This C# .NET course is available for private / custom delivery for your team - as an in-house face-to-face workshop at your location of choice, or as online instructor-led training via MS Teams (or your own preferred platform).

Get in touch to find out how we can deliver tailored training which focuses on your project requirements and learning goals.

C# Development Environments

• Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Code

Executable Programs & ILDASM

• The .NET Framework

• .NET Core

• C#

• Assemblies

Variables & Data Types

• Data types

• Identifier names

• Keywords

• Initialisation

• Type Inference

Console Input & Output

Operators

• Assignment

• Arithmetic

• Increment / Decrement

• Relational

• Boolean

• Bitwise

• Ternary

• Conditional

• Operator precedence

• Type conversion

Complex data types

• Enums

• Bit flag Enums

• Arrays

• Tuples

C# statements

• Branching

• Jumping

• Looping

Object Oriented Programming

Reference & Value Types

• Nullable types

• Elvis operator

• Null coalescing operator

• Boxing & unboxing

Classes

• Declaration

• Access modifiers

• Data

• Methods

• Method parameters

• Objects

• Constructors

• Method overloading

• Properties

• Expression bodied members

• Local methods

• Static classes & members

• Indexers

• Deconstruct

• Partial types & methods

Structs & Records 

Inheritance

• Base & derived classes

• Constructors

• Code re-use

• Abstract classes

• Record inheritance

• Extension methods

Polymorphism

• Virtual methods

• Vtables & RTTI

• Abstract methods

• Sealed types

Collections

• Generic collections

• Concurrent collections

• Specialized collections

• Performance considerations

Interfaces

• Defining & implementing

• Default interface methods

• Interface inheritance

• .NET interfaces

Resource Management

• Finalizers

• Garbage Collection

• IDisposable

• The using statement

Files

• .NET I/O classes

• Streams

• Asynchronous I/O

• XML

Serialization

• Attributes

• JSON serialization

• Binary serialization

• XML serialization

Delegates

• Multicast delegates

• generic delegates

• Action<T>

• Predicate<T>

• Func<T>

Lambdas

• Expression & statement lambdas

• Parameters

• Return type

• Captures

Events

• Defining

• Raising

• Standard & custom events

Generics

• Methods

• Classes

• Constraints

LINQ

• Enabling features

• LINQ expression

• LINQ pattern

• Joins

• Aggregations

=== Optional Modules ===

These modules are available for custom / private / in-house training – as an additional workshop or for more in-depth comprehensive training programmes. 

Operator Overloading (e.g.)

• Arithmetic

• Implicit & explicit conversion

• Boolean

WET, DRY & S.O.L.I.D.

• Good program design principles

Automated Testing

• Stubs

• Fakes

• Mocks

• Spies

• Test automation

• Xunit

• Microsoft test framework

• Data driven testing

• Parallel tests

• Test driven development

• Mocking frameworks

Databases

• ADO.NET

• Entity Framework 6,

• Entity Framework Core 7

• Entity Framework Core 8

GIT

• Source Management

• Collaborative Development

• https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/languages/csharp - the home of C#

• Visual Studio 2022 - get Microsoft's flagship enterprise IDE

• .NET Developer Community - interact with other .NET developers