In Level 1, you will learn to:

• Understand the design goals of C# and .NET.
• Write your own simple programs in Visual Studio .NET
• Understand reference types and value types.
• Understand variables and constants.
• Differentiate between expressions and statements.
• Create classes and instantiate objects.

In Level 2, you will learn to:

• Create and overload class methods and operators.
• Understand encapsulation and data hiding.
• Use inheritance to implement specialization and factoring
• Use virtual functions to support polymorphism.
• Use and create interfaces and structs
• Create and use arrays, arrayLists and other collections
• Work with strings and regular expressions

In Level 3, you will learn to:

• Declare and implement delegates and events
• Create, document and deploy Windows Forms applications
• Understand the ADO.NET object model
• Use ADO.NET to interact with and update databases
• Create data bound controls.
• Build event-driven data-centric Web applications.

C# Language Fundamentals

• Types
• Variables
• Constants
• Using statement
• String
• Identifiers
• Statements
• Expressions
• Whitespace

Branching

• Unconditional
• If /else
• Switch
• Goto
• While
• Do..While
• For

Operators

• Relational
• Assignment
• Mathematical
• Logical Operators
• Logical
• Short Circuit
• Precedence
• Preprocessor directives

Classes and objects

• Access modifiers
• Class methods
• Constructor
• Variables
• Instantiating objects
• Static methods
• Destructor & Finalize
• Passing Parameters
• Overloading methods
• Properties

Operator Overloading

• The operator keyword
• Supporting other .Net languages
• Operators must be static
• Use with care
• Conversion

Interfaces

• Defining structs
• Defining interfaces
• Implementing an interface
• Extending and combining interfaces
• Keywords is vs. as

Arrays

• The array
• Arrays and foreach
• Initialization
• Rectangular vs. Jagged
• Params

Collections

• Indexers
• Collection Interfaces
• IEnumerable
• IEnumerator
• ArrayList
• IComparable
• IComparer
• Queues
• Stacks
• Dictionaries
• Hashtables

strings

• The string class
• Immutable Strings
• String Builder
• Regular Expressions

Exceptions

• Throwing exceptions
• Catching exceptions
• Exception objects
• Custom exceptions

Delegates

• What are delegates
• Declaring delegates
• Instantiating delegates
• Multicast delegates

• What are events
• Events and delegates
• Responding to events

• Data binding
• Web form life cycle

Attributes & Reflection

• Intrinsic attributes
• Custom attributes
• Using reflection
• Late binding
• Discovery

Threads and synchronization

• Creating threads
• Synchronization devices
• Race conditions

Streams

• Reading and writing data
• Asynch I/O
• Web requests
• Network I/O simple
• Network I/O Asynch
• Serialization

COM Interop

• Importing an ActiveX control
• Importing a COM DLL