Microsoft 55339 - Programming in C#

This training course teaches developers the programming skills that are required to create applications using the C# language.

During this five-day course, you will review the basics of C# program structure, language syntax, and implementation details, and then consolidate your knowledge throughout the week as you build an application that incorporates several features of .NET.

The course aims to follow the spirit of the retired Microsoft Official Curriculum course 20483, while bringing it completely up-to-date with the latest features of C#, .NET 6.0 and Visual Studio 2022.

After completing the course, you will be able to:

• Explain how to use Visual Studio to create and run an application

• Describe the features and syntax of the C# programming language

• Define the monitoring needs of large-scale applications

• Create and call methods, capture and manage exceptions

• Understand the .NET development platform and libraries

• Understand the .NET framework classes

• Create well-structured and easily-maintainable C# code

• Define and implement interfaces

• Create a class hierarchy using inheritance

• Understand object-oriented programming concepts

• Implement the fundamental architecture and core components of a desktop application

• Acquire a working knowledge of how to build a graphical UI using XAML

• Use file I/O and streams, and serialise/deserialise data in various formats

• Understand web communications and protocols

• Create an entity data model for database access

• Use Language-Integrated Query (LINQ)

• Use asynchronous operations to create performant applications

• Add dynamic components and unmanaged libraries to a C# program

• Understand the use of generics and generic collections

• Retrieve metadata from types using .NET reflection