Desktop Apps with C# Course

• Introduction to C# and Visual Studio

Product Overview – Essentials of C# development – Features of C# – Basic Class Theory.

• Creating an Application Using Windows Forms

Adding Controls – Manipulating Controls – Running a Program – Saving a Project – Setting and changing Control Properties – Layout of a Windows Form.

• Responding to Events

Adding code to Controls and Windows Forms – Writing Event Handlers – How to approach event driven programming design.

• Elements of the C# Language

Variable Scope – Language Constructs – Functions and Procedures – Public, Private – .NET data types – Control structures such as If, While and Select – Naming Conventions.

• Creating a Larger Application

Managing multiple Windows Forms to create a more complex database application – Adding an Icon to an Application – Hiding and showing Windows Forms – Communication between forms.

• Menus and Toolbars

Adding a menu to a Windows Form – Enabling and disabling menu options – Checking a menu item. Short cut keys and mnemonics – Creating and using Toolbars.

• Exception Handling and Debugging

Structured Exception Handling – Using Try, Catch and Finally – Throwing your own Exceptions, Design Time, Run Time and Break Mode explained – Setting Break Points – Using the Debugging tools.

• Programming Databases

Using ADO.NET – Tables, Rows and Columns – Structured Query Language (SQL) – ADO.NET – Data aware controls – Data Sources – Creating & manipulating DataSets, DataReaders, DataAdapters and Connection objects – Adding, Deleting and Updating records – Using Stored Procedures.

• The Entity Framework and LINQ

Entity Data Model Designer, Model Browser, Mapping Details View, Standard Query Operators, Calling Stored Procedures, Inserting Records, Updating Records, Deleting Records.

• Classes, Structs, Interfaces and Inheritance

Class members – fields, methods, properties and events. Overloaded methods. Static class members. Static Classes. Garbage collection and reference counting. Inheritance. Polymorphism. Abstract classes and abstract members. Defining and using Interfaces. Partial Types. Constructors, destructors and finalizers. Attribute programming and using predefined attributes in code.

• Streams and IO

Streams and backing stores. The abstract Stream class. Concrete stream derived classes. The BinaryReader and BinaryWriter classes.TextReader and TextWriter classes. StreamReader and StreamWriter classes. Working with directories and files. Using Isolated Storage.

• Creating components

Building the component. Creating a simple client application. Working with namespaces.