Course overview
Once you’ve mastered the core features of C# as a programming language, you’re ready to take the next step. The .NET Framework offers an incredibly rich and diverse set of APIs that cover all aspects of contemporary development. This course takes a detailed look at the areas of C# and .NET that have particular resonance to developers today, including asynchrony, creating decoupled and adaptable systems, and test-driven development.
What you’ll learn
- Asynchronous programming techniques
- Parallelization and concurrency
- Debugging multithreaded code
- Reflection and metadata
- Using CodeDom and dynamic code
- Dynamic programming
- Dependency injection
- Test-driven development
Prerequisites
- At least 6 months C# programming experience
Course details
- Asynchronous Programming: Creating tasks; Designing task-based APIs; Continuations; Nested tasks
- Managing Tasks: Quick recap of async and await; A closer look at the Task class; Working with TaskCompletionSource; Task scheduling
- Parallel Programming: Task-based and data-based parallelism; Using the Parallel class; Using PLINQ; TPL DataFlow
- Debugging Multithreaded Code: Types of bugs; Visual Studio debugging techniques; Going beyond Visual Studio
- Reflection and Metadata: Metadata storage; Loading assemblies; Examining types using reflection; Creating instances using reflection; Late binding; Assembly metadata; Defining and accessing custom attributes
- Integrating with Unmanaged Code: The dynamic keyword; Using The Dynamic Language Runtime