AUDIENCE:   All developers requiring the skills to develop in Microsofts C# language. PREREQUISITES:   An understanding of programming and the system development process. Knowledge of OO would be useful but is not essential as the course will cover the key concepts of OO. DURATION:   5 days. Hands on. OBJECTIVES:   This course will introduce the attendees to C#, the Microsoft, standards based, Object Oriented (OO) language that is a cornerstone of Microsoft's .NET range. The course will cover, in depth, the syntax and structure of C#. In addition, it will give an overview of the .NET initiative and explain the key concepts of OO. C# is a major player in the OO development world that is likely to assume a dominant role among languages in the next few years. C# is one of the languages supported in the latest release of Microsoft's IDE (Integrated Development Environment) Visual Studio, called Visual Studio.NET. C# programs can also be developed outside of the .Net environment. At the end of the course, the attendees will understand: .NET, the .NET Framework, and the role C# plays in .NET The key concepts of Object Orientation The structure of a C# program The difference and usage of value and reference types Fields and variables How to compile a C# program and the compiler options How namespaces are used to create a hierarchy of classes How to build loops and control logic in C# How C# implements classes, inheritence, polymorphism How to implement Methods in C# The usage of the abstract, virtual, override and new modifiers The role of access modifiers The difference between ref, out, and params when passing parameters to a method The use of the base and this keywords in methods How to implement method and operator overloading The purpose and advantages offered by properties and indexers The difference between static and non-static The use of static methods and fields The functionality offered via constructors How to implement multiple constructors on a single class The difference between Classes and Structs and where they should be used How to handle exceptions The role of delegates and events How to build multithreaded programs COURSE CONTENT:   Introduction What is .NET? What are C# and MSIL? Introduction to Visual Studio .NET .NET SDK and tools C# Fundamentals Console I/O Simple "Hello World!" program Comments and documenting Common language runtime Base class library Namespaces Type Hierachy Object and basic types References and values Boxing Classes vs Structures Constructors Fields and methods Overloading static and constant public private protected sealed Properties and Indexers Destructors Garbage collection Iteration and Flow of Control Relational operators Collections (ArrayList, HashTable) for and foreach loops while and do-while loops Conditional expression Switch statement Arrays Initialisation Accessing an arrays Multi-Dimensioned arrays Exception Handling Exceptions try...catch try...finally Throwing exceptions Inheritance - Polymorphism Virtual methods Abstract methods Override methods Interfaces Defining Interfaces Implementing interfaces IComparable, Icloneable C# Event Model Delegates and events Streams FileStream StreamReader StreamWriter WinForms Simple Windows application Event handling Threading Support Threads and synchronization Performance in C# Writing code to maximize performance Raw access unsafe and fixed Reflection Querying for type information AppDomain Interoperability With Win32 With COM With other .NET modules Assemblies Private vs Shared Strong Names Versioning How it fits together Accessing databases ADO.NET, ASP.Net and WebServices