.NET Fundamentals Course | DevelopIntelligence

Course Summary

The .NET Fundamentals training course focuses on the core aspects of using .NET to build web-based applications.

The course begins with an overview of Core C# including application structure and an in-depth look at object-oriented applications. Next, students will learn about web development with MVC. The course concludes with a lesson on database access.

This course assumes you have some familiarity with an object-oriented language such as C#, Java, SmallTalk, or C++.

Purpose

Learn how to build .NET applications.

Audience

Programmers who are familiar with object-oriented techniques who want to learn the .NET platform.

Role

Software Developer

Skill Level

Introduction

Style

Learning Spikes - Workshops

Duration

3 Days

Related Technologies

.NET

C++

Java

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Productivity Objectives:

Describe the difference between a value type and a reference type.
Read and write file system data.
Discover Structured Exception Handling to handle errors with grace.
Leverage WCF to build REST based services.
Apply LINQ to perform database queries against SQL server.

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Project-focused demos and labs using your tool stack and environment, not some canned "training room" lab.
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What You'll Learn

In the .NET Fundamentals training course, you'll learn:

C#
- Introductions
  - A Heritage of Curly Braces
  - Multiple Paradigms: Procedural, Object-oriented, Declarative, Functional
  - Hello World!
- Application Structure
  - Review of Object-oriented Concepts
  - Static Classes
  - Classes and Structs
  - Properties and Fields
  - Enumerations
  - Namespaces
- Object-Oriented, In-depth
  - Implementation Inheritance
  - Virtual and Sealed
  - Interface Inheritance
  - Polymorphism
- Flow Control
  - Evaluating Conditionals
  - Ifs and Thens
  - Switch Statements
  - Collections
  - Loops Loops Loops!
- Events and Exceptions
  - Event Motivations
  - Event Patterns
  - Gotchas
  - Event Alternatives
- Advanced Topics
  - Encryption
  - Working with Unmanaged Resources
  - Essential Patterns in Modern C#
Web Development with MVC
- Introducing ASP MVC
  - ASP Web Forms Refresher
  - Fundamental Pattern: Model-View-Controller
  - MVC and Webforms compared
- Controllers
  - Convention over Configuration
  - Flavors of ActionResult
  - Writing an ActionFilter
- Views
  - View Engines and Razor
  - HTML Helpers
- Routing
  - RESTful resource identification
  - Structuring your application
- WCF Fundamentals – https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/wcf-fundamentals/table-of-contents
  - Introduction to WCF
  - What is a Service
  - Developing services
  - Developing clients
  - REST Services
Database Access
- Introduction to SQL
  - What is SQL?
  - How does SQL differ based on database vendor?
  - Current SQL ANSI Standards
  - Functionality supported by SQL
- Database Concepts
  - Core database terminologies
  - Database design process
  - Overview of Database Normalization
- Introduction to SQL Server
  - Setting up SQL Server
  - Selecting installation options
  - Installing a named instance
  - Creating Users
  - Setting up databases and tables
  - Granting remote access
- Introducing Entity Framework
  - Impedance Mismatch
  - Relationship to Traditional ADO.NET
  - What EF Brings
  - Alternatives to EF
- LINQ LINQ LINQ!
  - History and Motivations
  - Query Syntax vs. Object Syntax
  - Cheatsheet
  - LINQ Backends – Objects, XML, Entities
- Bootstrapping Entity Framework
  - Design Patterns
  - Code First and POCOs
  - Mapping Considerations
  - Common Scenarios
- Making Your Database Happy
  - Using Stored Procedures
  - Managing Concurrency
  - Joining Transactions
- Advanced Entity Framework
  - Loading: Lazy and Eager
  - More patterns: Entities and Aggregates
  - Fine-tuning Queries