Advanced C# Programming Course

Course Objectives: What Will I Learn?

Delegates who complete the Advanced C# Programming course will be able to:

Apply advanced object-oriented principles such as operator overloading.
Apply file access and serialization concepts.
Develop multi-threaded applications.
Develop database applications using ADO.NET.
Understand .NET interoperability services and security.

Intended Audience: Is This The Right Course For Me?

This course is intended for:

Experienced C# programmers who require more advanced knowledge of the C# language and programming techniques.

Course Prerequisites: Am I Ready For The Course?

Our C# Programming course (or equivalent) and 6 months C# programming experience.

Please ensure you meet the prerequisites for the Advanced C# Programming Course before you attend the course. Read the importance of course prerequisites to understand why this is necessary.

Course Contents: What Does The Course Cover?

Overview: Review of the .NET platform and the C# language. • Portability issues.

Object-Oriented Programming: Class hierarchies. • Partial classes. • Cross-language inheritance. • Abstract classes. • Sealed classes. • Overriding System.Object Methods. • Reference types. • Casting & conversions. • Constructors. • Interfaces.

Collections, Structs and Enums: .NET Collections. • Ordered vs. unordered collections. • Object-based classes. • Generic collections. • Using Structs. • Using Enums.

Operator Overloading: Overloading mathematical, comparison, conversion operators. • Overloading ToString. • Overloading GetHashCode.

Reflection and Attributes: Intrinsic attributes. • Custom attributes. • Reflection concepts. • Extracting type information. • Using reflection at runtime.

File Access and Serialization: Manipulating files and directories. • Readers and writers. • Serialization I/O concepts. • Stream objects. • Object serialization.

Multithreading in .NET: Creating threads. • Thread management. • Thread synchronization. • Thread interoperability. • The Thread and ThreadPool classes.

Delegates and Events: Callbacks & delegates. • Single-cast vs. multi-cast delegates. • Delegate types. • Usynchronous vs. asynchronous delegates. • Custom events.

ADO.NET: The ADO.NET object model. • Connected vs. disconnected access. • Connection pooling. • Stored procedures. • Transactions. • Binding data to controls. • LINQ and SQL.

.NET Interoperability Services: Interactions between managed and unmanaged code. • Marshalling data. • PInvoke. • Callable wrappers. • Interop marshalling.

Security: Security concepts. • Role-Based security. • Code Access security. • Security policy. • Cryptography. • ClickOnce deployment. • Strong-Named assemblies.