C#.NET LEVEL- 2

Course details

.NET Developers who want to get up to speed quickly with the latest features of C# 5.0 in Visual Studio 2012, and learn C# 5.0 Best Practices

Prerequisites for the course

Experience of developing C# .NET Applications (Windows or Web) and a good understanding of Object Oriented Programming principles.

Course Contents 

Defining Members in .NET

• A closer look at parameters
• Construction and destruction
• Properties

 Going Further with Types and Members

• Static members
• Operators
• Partial types
• Partial methods

Delegates, Events

• Delegates
• Asynchronous delegates
• Events

C# Generics

• Getting started with generics
• A closer look at generics
• Generic structs, delegates, interfaces
• Generic methods

 Additional C# Language Features

• Object and Collection Initialization
• Anonymous Types
• Extension Methods

LINQ to Objects

• Introduction to LINQ
• Using LINQ with arrays
• Using LINQ with collections
• LINQ techniques
• LINQ under the hood
• Serialization with C# & .NET
• Runtime Serialization
• Customizing Serialization
• XML Serialization
• Annex: Data contract serialization

Reflection and Metadata

• Reflection
• Late binding
• Assembly metadata

Multithreading and Parallelization

• Creating multiple threads
• Additional thread techniques
• Thread synchronization
• Parallelization
• Asynchronous methods

Dynamic Programming

• Using the Dynamic Keyword
• Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR)

 Creating Windows Store Apps

• Overview of Windows Store applications
• Worked example
• Adding controls and event handlers

Introduction to Design Patterns

• What are Design Patterns?
• What are Anti-Patterns?
• What are Design Heuristics?

Using Design Patterns

• Pattern classification
• Creational patterns
• Structural patterns
• Behavioural patterns

Test Driven Development (TDD) and Unit Testing Principles

• Why do TDD and Unit Testing?
• What tools are available?

Unit Testing with NUnit

• How to Test
• Using NUnit
• Test fixtures and methods
•  Asserts

Test Doubles and Mocking

• What are doubles?
• Continuum of doubles
• Mocking frameworks
• Different approaches to mocking