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Course Title:
C# for C++ Developers

Duration: 5 days

Course Content


C# Language (3 Days)

NET and C# Building Blocks
• Overview of the .NET platform, and VS.NET IDE, CLR and FCL
• Assemblies, metadata, namespaces, assembly info, managed execution
• Using the System Console for I/O, formatting values
• Basic data types, reference vs value types, variable scoping
• Operators; numeric parsing, DateTime

Basic Constructs
• Looping and branching: if, switch, while, do, for, foreach
• Exception handling
• Arrays, single- and multi-dimensional, jagged arrays; the System Array type
• String and StringBuilder, regular expressions
• Functions/Methods and arguments

Object-Oriented Programming
• Classes; data members (fields), private and public access
• Constructors, this, overloading constructors, initializer lists; constant and readonly fields
• Class member functions, static functions, ref and out parameters, variable-number params
• Static data and function members, static constructors; function overloading
• The object type; GetType and ToString
• Properties: getting and setting values; readonly and static properties
• Structs vs Classes

Inheritance
• Inheritance; protected members; hiding inherited functions with new
• Virtual functions and overrides, calling base functions
• Abstract classes and properties, sealed classes; nested classes
• Properties and inheritance; virtual properties; object overrides

Class Relationships
• Internal members; internals and assemblies; protected internals, aggregation/association
• Namespaces and assemblies, using aliases, common language
• System collection classes: ArrayList, Queue, Stack, Hashtable

Interfaces
• Interfaces; interfaces vs abstract classes
• is and as operators; implementation and interface inheritance
• Multiple interfaces; hiding interfaces; interface properties
• IEnumerator, IComparable, IComparer

Operators and Conversions
• Numeric conversions; checked and unchecked, implicit and explicit conversions
• Conversion of structs and classes; object params
• User-defined conversions; operator overloading: equivalence; enums

Indexers, Delegates and Events
• Indexing with integers; integer and string indexers; indexers and foreach; enumerators
• Creating and using delegates
• Defining and using events; EventArgs
• Asynchronous calls

I/O
• Streams I/O, file, memory and buffered streams, stream readers/writers
• File and directory manipulation
• Serialization; implementing ISerializable

Windows GUI (1 Day)

Windows Forms
• Forms
• Standard controls
• Events
• Menus and context menus
• Dialogs, common dialogs
• Toolbars and statusbars

Controls
• User controls
• Custom controls

Drawing
• Colours, brushes, pens
• Text
• Shapes

Displaying Data
• DataSet
• Data controls
• ADO and XML
• Data binding

XML Support (1 Day)

Introduction to XML
• Syntax
• Elements and attributes
• Namespaces
• Validity
• Schemas - DTDs and XSDs
• Parsing
• Document Object Model
• XPath
• XSLT transformations

The System.XML namespace
• XmlReader and XmlWriter
• XmlTextReader and XmlTextWriter
• XmlValidatingReader
• XmlSerializer
• XmlDocument and XmlDataDocument
• XslTransform

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