Course Structure and Contents
Module 1: .NET and C# Fundamentals
- Introduction and background. The history of .NET
- The .NET command line tools
- Your first .NET Core application
- Working with IDEs: Visual Studio, VS Code, Rider
- Fundamentals of C#
- Flow control
- Variables and data types
- Classes and structs
- Inheritance and interfaces
- Delegates and events
Module 2: The C# Programming Language
- Errors and exceptions
- Operators and overloads
- Arrays and collections
- Generics
- Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
- Asynchronous programming
- Reflection and metaprogramming
Module 3: The .NET Runtime, Services and IO
- Introducing the .NET Runtime
- Dependency Injection
- The Task Parallel Library
- Working with files and directories
- Working with streams
- Networking and HTTP clients
- Accessing APIs; serialization and deserialization
Module 4: Working with Databases in .NET
- ADO.NET Fundamentals
- Data access using Dapper
- Introducing EF Core
- Databases and data models: code first, model first,
- Queries
- Relationships
- Updates
- Conflict resolution
- Versioning databases with migrations
Module 5: Building Web Applications with ASP.NET
- Fundamentals of web application development
- Introducing ASP.NET Core
- ASP.NET MVC and the Model/View/Controller pattern
- Dependency injection
- The Razor view engine
- Adding client-side content
- Understanding routing
- Authentication and Authorization
- Action Filters
- Building APIs with WebAPI
Module 6: Security, Testing and Performance
- Unit testing with xUnit
- Using mocks, fakes and stubs
- Benchmarking and bottlenecks
- Patterns for improving application performance
- The .NET Core security model: principals and identities
- OWASP: introduction to security vulnerabilities
- Securing web applications with IdentityServer
- Encryption
Target Audience and Prerequisites
This workshop assumes some familiarity with writing code - if you know how to edit a text file and run commands in a terminal window, you’re fine. Attendees will need to bring a laptop running Windows, macOS or Linux, and ideally install the Microsoft .NET SDK from https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download.
The ideal class size for this workshop is between 6–20 people. If you’d like to run it for a smaller or a larger group, please get in touch and let’s chat.
Upcoming Course Dates
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