Beginning Modern C# and .NET Development
The release of .NET Core means that cross-platform development with C# is finally here. In this fast-paced practical course you’ll work through a rapid introduction to C# followed up by an overview of .NET in the context of two real-world applications.
Each component of the course has been carefully designed to build skills and capabilities that are in high commercial demand. You’ll learn how to build and deploy Universal Windows Platform applications for desktop environments, as well as cutting-edge web development techniques with ASP.NET Core MVC. As you progress you’ll find helpful tips and tricks, as well as useful self-assessment material, exercises and activities to help benchmark your progress and reinforce what you’ve learned.
If you’re a pragmatic developer with a few years of experience working with another object-oriented programming language, this course will equip you with the skills you need to succeed with C# and .NET in the modern workplace.
The course will initially begin with familiarizing you to the different .NET
technologies and Visual Studio 2017. Beginning from the basic concepts of declaring and working with variables, we move on to writing code that makes decisions, repeats a block of statements, converts between types, and handles errors.
You will also learn about .NET Core and its class library assemblies, and packages of types that are defined in .NET Standard that allow your applications to connect existing components together to perform common practical tasks. You will then learn to make your own types using object-oriented programming (OOP) and learn how to read and write to databases.
You will then see what can be achieved with Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) when defining the user interface for a graphical app, in particular, for Universal Windows Platform (UWP). Finally, we look at building web applications with a modern HTTP architecture on the server side using Microsoft ASP.NET Core MVC.
This course is targeted at professional software developers or programming and developer enthusiasts wanting to get started with building and deploying advanced applications using the modern-day .NET framework. The prospective students will be taught about the intricacies of .NET and other associated technologies such as C#, and ASP.NET.
It is imperative that a prospective student is well acquainted with basic object-oriented programming principles. Additionally, it is advised, though not completely necessary, that one possess a very basic idea of the .NET stack before commencing with this course.
For successful completion of this course, students will require the computer systems with the following:
- Processor: 1.8 GHz or higher Pentium 4 (or equivalent)
- Memory: Minimum: 2 GB RAM
- Recommended: 4GB
- Hard disk: 10 GB
- Internet connection
- Operating system: Windows 10
- Browser: Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox (latest version)
- Visual Studio 2017, with .NET Framework 4.7 installed
- .NET Core 2.0 installed
Lesson 1: An Overview of Visual Studio 2017
Understanding .NET
Fundamentals of Visual Studio 2017
Lesson 2: Introducing C#
Exploring the Basics of C#
Declaring Variables
Building Console Applications
Lesson 3: Controlling the Flow, Converting Types, and
Handling Exceptions
Understanding Selection Statements
Understanding Iteration Statements
Casting and Converting Between Types
Handling Exceptions
Checking for Overflow
Lesson 4: Using .NET Standard Types
Using Assemblies and Namespaces
Debugging and monitoring
Storing Data with Collections
Debugging Tools
Monitoring Performance and Resource Usage
Lesson 5: .NET Deep Dive
Understanding OOP
Building Class Libraries
Implementing Interfaces and Inheriting Classes
Lesson 6: Databases
Relational Database Management Systems
Working with Entity Framework Core
Understanding Universal Windows Platform
Lesson 7: Building Universal Windows Platform Apps Using
XAML
Understanding Universal Windows Platform
Understanding XAML
Creating an Application for UWP
Using Resources and Templates
Data Binding
Animating with Storyboards
Testing in Emulators
Lesson 8: Building Web Applications Using ASP.NET Core
MVC
Understanding ASP.NET Core
Exploring an ASP.NET Core MVC Web Application
ASP.NET Core MVC Controllers
ASP.NET Core MVC Models
ASP.NET Core MVC Views
Taking ASP.NET Core MVC Further