Introducing C# and the .NET Framework
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This is the first article in my series (Introducing C# for Developers). You will learn C# in a short time, and you will know what features C# introduces to software development and how rapidly you can develop software applications for the .NET platform.
I begin the series with an introduction to C# and the .NET Framework. You will learn about the Common Language Runtime, the Common Type System and the Common Language Specifications. Then together we will create your first C# application using C# Compiler, and we will also create this application using Microsoft Visual Studio.NET.
After this introduction you will learn more about .NET Types, and the story of Value Types and Reference Types. I know that you are excited to learn about C# classes and how a C# class is encapsulated in one file (unlike C++); this will come with a discussion of C# Access Modifiers. After you master the concepts related to a C# class you will need to learn about controlling the path of the application with the familiar if statement and its friends belonging to the iteration statement family.
Ready to sharpen your skills? It's time to learn about C# methods and how C# methods can make your programming constructions encapsulated. You will learn about method overloading and parameterized methods, and how you can pass parameters by value and by reference. You will also learn about the ref and out keyword, and how they can change the way you design your method's parameters.
After methods come properties. It's very important at this time to learn what a C# compiler generates under the hood when you write properties in your classes. You will learn properties syntax and how to make your properties Read-Only, Write-Only and Read-Write. You will learn what a static property is, too. Then you will learn about the various operators introduced by the C# language and how to use them. C++ defines a construction called Indexed Property, but in C# we call it an Indexer, and it can make your life much easier so a discuss about Indexers is a must as well.
A .NET Application is typically one or more assemblies so you need to learn about assemblies as well as namespaces, so one article coming up will be about Assemblies and Namespaces. Then we will discuss some advanced C# programming concepts like Inheritance, Polymorphism programming and Interfaces, which take you into some great details about C# programming. Delegates maybe not familiar to you so we will spend some time studying it followed by C# Events. I will end the series with an article about Object manipulation and operations. I hope that this series will sharpen your skills.
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