Our engaging instructors and mentors are highly experienced practitioners who bring years of current "on-the-job" experience into every classroom. Working in a hands-on learning environment, guided by our expert team, attendees will learn to: 

• Design and implement classes that adhere to SOLID design principles 
• Understand common design patterns 
• Implement robust classes with properties, methods, delegates & events 
• Understand, use, and implement generics 
• Explore generics in the .Net Framework 
• Understand and use Language integrated Query (LiNQ) 
• Understand and use Lambda expressions 
• Build dynamic applications using reflection 
• Use internationalization to build world friendly applications 
• Build multithreaded applications 
• Understand the basics of database access 
• What’s new in .Net Core and C#? 

This is an intermediate-level .Net programming course, designed for experienced C# developers  

Take Before:  Students should have development skills at least equivalent to the following course(s) or should have attended one of these as a pre-requisite: 

• TTCN20483 Programming in C# | Creating Apps in C# and .Net Core (5 days) 

Next Steps: We offer a wide variety of follow on courses for .Net development, web development, SOLID design, .Net services, .Net secure coding and others. Please see our Microsoft Developer Training Suite list of courses for recommended next steps.  

Enhanced Learning Services: Please also ask about our Pre-Training Class OnRamp & Prep / Primer offerings, Skills Gap Assessment Services, Case Studies, Knowledge Check Quizzes, Skills Immersion Programs & Camps, Collaborative Mentoring Services and Extended Learning Support & Post Training services. 

Please note that this list of topics is based on our standard course offering, evolved from typical industry uses and trends. We will work with you to tune this course and level of coverage to target the skills you need most. Course agenda, topics and labs are subject to adjust during live delivery in response to student skill level, interests and participation.  

Overview of new Features 

• Type specifiers 
• Raw Literals 
• Top-level statements 
• Records 
• Global Usings 
• Tuples 
• Deconstruction 

Design Guidelines 

• Conventions 
• Class Design guidelines 
• Exception Design guidelines 
• Common Design Patterns 

Robust Classes 

• Properties 
• Functions 
• Delegates 
• Events 

Unit Testing with XUnit 

• Utilizing Test Driven Development (TDD) 
• Survey of Unit test frameworks 
• Using XUnit 
• Mocking with Moq 

Exceptions 

• Overview 
• Syntax 
• Exceptions vs Return code 
• Testing for exceptions 

Generics 

• Generic Classes 
• Generic Functions 
• Understanding invariance 
• Survey of Generics in the .Net Library 

Delegates 

• Overview 
• Methods as objects 
• Generics and Delegates 
• Delegates in the library 

Events 

• Overview 
• Defining 
• Register/Deregister 

Lambda Expressions 

• Using lambdas to generate a delegate 

Inheritance 

• Overview 
• Syntax 
• Override/Virtual 
• Abstract 
• Polymorphism 

SOLID Principles & Design Patterns 

• Overview 
• Design Smells 
• Single Responsibility 
• Open/Close 
• Liskov’s Substitution Principle 
• Using SOLID to correct design smells 

Interfaces 

• Overview 
• Interface motivations and SOLID 
• Interface Segregation 
• Dependency Inversion 
• Default interface methods 

LInQ  

• Overview 
• Extension Methods 
• Linq API 
• Linq Query 

Attributes, Reflection & Metadata 

• Reflections basics 
• Attributes 

Resources & Globalization 

• Overview 
• Resource Bundles 
• Specifying Language/Region 

Threads, Tasks, Async/Await 

• Creating Threads 
• Coordinating threads 
• Tasks 
• Async/Await 

Basics of Entity Framework 

• DbContext 
• Code first vs Db first 
• Entities 
• Mapping 

Survey of GUI Applications 

• MAUI 
• Blazor 
• Asp.Net