A brief overview of the .Net platform and the C# language
- Overview of the .Net platform
- Basic command line tools
- A brief overview of the basic concepts of PPE
- Class and static members
- Inheritance and polymorphism
- Virtual methods and shading
- Interface
Generic data types
- Generic types and type safety
- Generic classes
- Generic interface
- Generic methods
- Generic collections
Operator overloading
- Introduction to overloading operators
- Implicit and explicit overloading
Delegates and events
- Definition and use of delegates
- Callback usage
- Using events
An extension of the language of previous versions
- Keyword "var"
- Partial Classes
- Nullable Types and Operators ??, ?., ?[
- Automatic properties
- Tuples
- Discards, Out variables, Deconstructions
- Extension methods
- Optional and named parameters
- Object Initializers
Delegates Lambda expressions and LINQ
- Anonymous types
- Lambda expressions
- Generic delegates
- IEnumerable and IQueryable
- Closure
- Covariance and Contravariance
Pattern Matching
- Pattern Matching Overview
- Switch Pattern Matching
- Is Pattern Matching
- Switch Pattern Expression and Expression Bodies
Records
- Introduction to Records
- Mutability
- Value Equality
Assemblies and attributes
- Compiler directives and conditional compilation
- Assemblies and the use of attributes
Memory and Resource Management and Garbage Collector
- Garbage Collector
- Implicit and Explicit release of resources
- Interface IDisposable
- Using and IDisposable
- Weak references
- Generation
Reading and writing data using streams
- Introduction to streams
- Using the FileStream class
- BinaryReader and BinaryWriter
- StreamReader and StreamWriter
- Using the FileInfo class
- Using the FileSystemWatcher class
- Using the CryptoStream class
Data serialization
- Introduction to serialization
- Shallow and deep serialization
- XML serialization
- Serialization Binary
- JSON serialization
