Introduction to Programming using .Net

Principles of Programming

• Writing a procedural program
• Transitioning to the object oriented philosophy
• Coding using fundamental C# or VB syntax and semantics
• Reviewing, compiling and executing a program in Visual Studio

Using Visual Studio

• Creating projects and solutions
• Editing and compiling a program
• Running a console application

Coding object–oriented applications

• Dividing code into classes
• Adding fields, methods and properties
• Defining code layout and limiting scope
• Instantiating objects

Working with data types and conversions

• Strings
• Dates and time
• Integers
• Real numbers
• Booleans
• Performing calculations with mathematical operators
• Converting between data types

Controlling program execution

• IF statements
• Writing complex criteria expressions
• CASE (switch) statements
• For...Next loops
• Do While...loops

Constructing ASP.NET websites with Visual Studio

• Writing HTML pages and forms
• Maintaining consistency with Master Pages
• Designing pages with ASP.NET controls
• Styling sites with ASP.NET themes

Processing ASP.NET Web Forms

• Displaying data and gathering user input Activating
• Web Forms with events Maintaining variables with sessions
• Styling using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)

Relational database concepts

• Employing databases for fast, efficient storage
• Selecting, inserting, updating and deleting query syntax

Creating a SQL Server database

• Adding tables, fields and indexes
• Defining primary and foreign key relationships

Accessing the database with Entity Framework

• Connecting to the database
• Storing user information
• Retrieving existing records
• Updating and saving user information
• Adding and deleting records

Object Oriented Program Layout

• Encapsulating data
• Ensuring proper object creation using constructors
• Extending classes using inheritance
• Overriding using virtual functions

Code Quality and Error Handling

• Ensuring type safety with enums
• Throwing and handling exceptions
• Try...Catch...Finally error handling
• Commenting code