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.NET Introduction training course

Create Robust .NET Applications And Explore New Features To Increase Productivity

"Our tailored course provided a well rounded introduction into .NET core and related technologies. Excellent training on Object Oriented programming and accessing databases. Fast paced but the instructor never lost any of the delegates"

LK, Software Engineer, MVC, January 2021

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27/01/25 - 5 days

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Highlights

Utilise Visual Studio to develop and debug applications
Explore C# or Visual Basic .NET features
Understand the Common Language Runtime and .NET
Create Reusable Objects using Object Oriented Programming
Understand how to handle Errors
Learn to Develop Scalable Applications
Use WPF to develop Windows applications
Learn alternative approaches to develop server-side applications

Course Details

Introduction

.NET 6 and Visual Studio
Creating .NET Solutions and Projects
Role of the Common Language Runtime
.NET APIs for creating Applications
Discussion of alternative APIs for creating Applications with the .NET (Windows/Web/Database)
Visual Studio tools
Console IO
Lab: Create simple Project and use of Visual Studio Features

Fundamentals

Introduction to C#/VB.NET
.NET 6 Class Libraries
Namespaces
Value and Reference types
Standard Types
Methods
Labs: Provide Input and Output functionality for common types; Create Methods to partition functionality

Flow of Control

Loop Constructs (for, while, do/while)
Conditional Code (if, switch/Select Case)
Lab: Add flow of control statements to conditionally execute code

Introduction to Object Oriented Programming

Structures, Classes and Records (C# 10)
Methods/Properties/Constructors
Class Diagrams/Class Details
Refactoring
Inheritance and Polymorphism
Lab: Create Classes to provide templates for types; Implement Polymorphism
Role of Generics in .NET
Type Safety
Generics and Generic Collections
Lab: Use generic collection to store objects

Interfaces

Introduction to Interfaces
Creating an Interface
Implementing an Interface
Standard Interfaces
Lab: Use interfaces in to work with Generic Collections

Error Handling

Creating Robust Applications
Exception Handling
Try/catch/finally
Lab: Add exception handling

Class Libraries

Creating a Class Library
Assemblies
Strong Named Assemblies
Lab: Create a Class Library for later reuse

Asynchronous Programming

Asynchronous APIs are now common within .NET
File Access
Opening Files
Reading and writing to files (and asynchronous usage)
Use of asynchronous calls
Task Asynchronous Pattern
Lab: Reading from a file asynchronously

Accessing Databases (ADO.NET & LINQ)

Creating a Data Access Layer
Standard ADO.NET types
Lab: Access data from a database
Lambda Expressions
Extension Methods
Anonymous Type
Simplified Querying and Manipulation of Data with Language Integrated Query LINQ
Discussion of how the use of these new features allows alternative ways of writing programs.
Creating an Entity Data Model
Labs: Manipulate data using LINQ; Access data using an Entity Data Model

Web Presentation Layer

This section considers the basics of creating a Web Application using both the traditional ASP.NET approach and the newer MVC approach
ASP.NET MVC (Model View Controller)
Creating Model, View and Controller
Configuring applications
Use of Razor views
Validating user input
Lab: Create an ASP.NET MVC Application to allow user input and presentation of data

Deployment

Consideration of alternative ways in which Applications can be deployed
Copying Web Sites
Publish Web Sites
Lab: Publishing Project

Who should attend

Developers who wish to create commercial .NET applications within the latest Visual Studio version using C# and / or VB.NET - suitable for delegates with backgrounds in languages such as VB6, Java, C++, or older .NET frameworks

Feedback

4.8 out of 5 average

LK, Software Engineer, MVC, January 2021

“JBI did a great job of customizing their syllabus to suit our business needs and also bringing our team up to speed on the current best practices. Our teams varied widely in terms of experience and the Instructor handled this particularly well - very impressive”

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More about this course

Our .NET training course is expert-led and focuses on introducing the core language features, before quickly introducing libraries to allow accessing database (ADO.NET) and presentation techniques allowing creation of both graphical user interface applications (WPF) and web-based applications (ASP.NET).

With the importance of web applications this course has a major section including labs on the latest approach to web applications, by including labs for the latest MVC applications.