Programming in C# 5.0 with Visual Studio 2012

IDE

• Introduction to Visual Studio 2012
• First program - Hello C# World !
• Classes from System.Console namespace
• Compilation, Debugging
• Comments in C#, Main function, using

Microsoft .NET

• What is .NET?
• CLR and Garbage Collector
• DLL vs. EXE?
• Technologies within .NET

Foundations of C#

• C# History from 1.0 to 5.0
• Pascal Case, Camel Case
• Keywords, Literals, Operators, Punctuators
• Statements, Comments
• Value Type, Reference Type
• Assignment vs. variable comparison
• Conditional operations - If, Switch
• Loops - for, foreach, while, do… while…
• Overview of C# keywords and operators

C# 5.0

• Namespaces and types
• Numerical and Boolean types
• Class theory (Encapsulation, Inheritance, Polymorphism)
• Fields, Properties, Indexers, Operators
• Methods, Delegates, Events, Anonymous Methods
• Interfaces, Structures, Enums
• Arrays, Collections, Exceptions
• Generic and Anonymous types
• Strings and chars

Data Flow

• Data modelling in C#
• Access to databases
• LINQ
• Entity Framework
• CRUD operations

.NET Class Library

• Files and Streams
• Serialization (binary, text, xml)
• Asynchronous operations
• Parallel programming

Review of applications that can be developed in C# and .NET Framework 4.5

Summary and Conclusion