Introduction

• Principle and architecture of the .NET environment.
• Main components: language, CLR, CTS, ...
• Benefits of the MSIL language.
• Execution model in .NET: managed execution benefits.
• Visual Studio. Type of projects. Help and documentation.

Language syntax

• Basic understanding of the C# language.
• Values, operators and variables.
• Reference types : classes and interfaces.
• Exception handling. Program structure.
• Program debugging.

Object Oriented Programming

• Encapsulation and abstraction.
• Classes and objects. Inheritance. Polymorphism.
• Multiple interfaces implementation.
• Introduction to the modeling language UML 2.0.

Class development and objects creation

• Class and object definition.
• Class members: methods and properties.
• Static members. Overloads of methods.
• Object's life cycle and the garbage collector in action.
• Benefits of a typed language.
• Application structure through Namespaces.
• Inheritance: which members are inherited from a derived class ?
• Abstract class. Generic collections and classes.

Interfaces

• Definition. Explicit and implicit implementations.
• The role of the interface in inheritance.

Exception handling

• Principle. Best practices in exception handling.
• Creating a custom exception class. Libraries.

Assemblies

• Definition. Organizing a project through assemblies.
• Creating shared assemblies. Assembly deployment.
• Use of the Global Assembly Cache (GAC).

Application development with .NET technologies

• Evolution of the data access model in .NET Framework.
• ADO.NET technology for data handling.
• Web development with the ASP.NET namespaces.
• Service Oriented applications using Web Services.