C# Training

3-day fast track C# training course

3 days

If you're learning C# you may find it difficult to spare two days out of the office for our basic C# course followed by two days for our intermediate C# course. This combined intensive course aims to cover the combined four days of training in just 3 days (see our fast track notes for how this is possible).

Our fast-track courses are only available as tailored training, either at your premises or at either our London or Manchester venues (here's why).

Course Contents - PDF

Course Contents

This fast-track course combines topics from the following other Wise Owl courses:

From our INTRODUCTION TO VISUAL C# course

Creating forms

Drawing controls
Formatting forms

Coding form events

Forms and their events
The two event arguments

Laying out your code

Commenting out code
Using regions

C# variables

Creating and using variables
The types of variable

Covered if time allows If time

Enumerations and constants

Enumerations
Constants

Conditions

Using IF and ELSE
The SWITCH statement

Modular code

Passing arguments
Writing functions

Arrays

Using arrays
Splitting text

Looping

Looping n times
WHILE loops
Looping over collections

Files and folders

Stream readers and writers
The USING statement
FileInfo and DirectoryInfo

Debugging and trapping errors

The TRY clause
Stepping through code
Setting breakpoints

Using lists

Populating lists
Finding items

Properties in C#

RO, WO and RW properties
Coding properties

From our INTERMEDIATE C# course

Designing classes

The domestic cat object
Properties and methods
Encapsulation and exposure

Creating classes

Using namespaces
Creating constructors
Fields, properties and methods
Static members

The form as a class

Partial classes
InitalizeComponent method
Instantiating forms

Data structures

Generics
Arrays
Lists, stacks and queues
Dictionaries

Covered if time allows If time

Overloading

Overloaded methods
Overloading constructors

LINQ theory

Extension methods
Ienumerability
Query vs. method syntax

Writing LINQ

Arrays, lists and data tables
Criteria and ordering
Using LET expressions

Covered if time allows If time

Advanced LINQ

Projecting data
Anonymous types
Forcing query execution
Taking and skipping

Types of model

Code first
Model first
Database first

Entity Frameworks

Creating entity data models
Data contexts
Updating models

LINQ with Entity Frameworks

Creating a data context
Selecting data using LINQ
Using relationships (associations)
Adding, editing and deleting

Covered if time allows If time

Advanced LINQ with EF

Returning anonymous types
Using stored procedures
Extending (partial classes)

Covered if time allows If time

Grouping using LINQ

IGrouping and IEnumerable
Grouping keys
Group into and ordering
Using multiple keys

You don't need any programming experience to attend this course (although if you've used other languages this will be useful), but you do need to be a quick learner. If you strugged with maths at school this probably isn't the right course for you!