Beginning Modern C# and .NET Development

The course will initially begin with familiarizing you to the different .NET technologies and Visual Studio 2017. Beginning from the basic concepts of declaring and working with variables, we move on to writing code that makes decisions, repeats a block of statements, converts between types, and handles errors.

You will also learn about .NET Core and its class library assemblies, and packages of types that are defined in .NET Standard that allow your applications to connect existing components together to perform common practical tasks. You will then learn to make your own types using object-oriented programming (OOP) and learn how to read and write to databases.

You will then see what can be achieved with Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) when defining the user interface for a graphical app, in particular, for Universal Windows Platform (UWP). Finally, we look at building web applications with a modern HTTP architecture on the server side using Microsoft ASP.NET Core MVC.

About the Author

Mark J. Price is a Microsof Certifed Trainer (MCT) and Microsof Specialist:

Programming in C# and Architecting Microsof Azure Solutions, with more than 20 years of educational and programming experience. Since 1993, Mark has passed more than 80 Microsof programming exams and specializes in preparing others to pass them too. His students range from professionals with decades of experience to 16-year-old apprentices with none. He successfully guides all of them by combining educational skills with real-world experiences in consulting and developing systems for enterprises worldwide. Between 2001 and 2003, Mark was employed full time to write ofcial courseware for Microsof in Redmond, USA. His team wrote the frst training courses for C# while it was still an early alpha version. While with Microsof, he taught "train-the-trainer" classes to get other MCTs up to speed on C# and .NET. Currently, Mark creates and delivers training courses for Episerver's Digital Experience Cloud, the best .NET CMS for Digital Marketing and E-commerce. In 2010, Mark studied for a Postgraduate Certifcate in Education (PGCE). He taught GCSE and A-Level mathematics in two London secondary schools. He holds a Computer Science BSc. Hons. Degree from the University of Bristol, UK.

Marino Posadas is an independent senior trainer, writer, and consultant in Microsoft Technologies. He is a Microsof MVP in C#, Visual Studio, and Development Technologies; an MCT, MCPD, MCTS, MCAD, and MCSD; and was the former Director for Development in Spain and Portugal for Solid Quality Mentors. Marino has published 15 books and more than 500 articles on development technologies in several magazines and online publications. Topics covered in his books range from Clipper and Visual Basic 5.0/ 6.0 to C # and .NET- safe programming, to programming with Silverlight 2.0 and 4.0 and Web Standards. His latest books are Mastering C# and .NET Framework, Packt Publishing and The Guide to Programming in HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript with Visual Studio. He is also a speaker at Microsof events, having lectured in Spain, Portugal, England, the USA, Costa Rica, and Mexico.

Reynald Adolphe has been a .NET software engineer with 10+ years’ experience doing website consulting and development. He also dabbles in some comedy & has put tech events together that includes entertainment.