Getting Started with Advanced C#: Upgrade Your Programming Skills

Introduction

Part-I

Chapter 1: Delegates

Subtopics:

* What is a delegate?

* How to create and use delegates?

* What is a multicast delegate (Chaining of Delegates) and its uses?

* Adding and removing methods from a multicast delegate.

Chapter 2: Events

Subtopics:

* Events overview

• Creation of events and example of simple events
• Subscribing single and multiple events
• Passing data to events
• Discussion on event accessors

Chapter 3: Anonymous Function and Lambda Exp.

* A quick introduction to anonymous function and lambda expression.

• Lambda's with and without parameters
• Types and scopes of a lambda expression
• Expression syntaxes with example

Chapter 4: LINQ

Subtopics:

Part-II

Chapter 5: Generic Programming

Subtopics:

• Generics overview
• Comparing a generic program with its counterpart-a non-generic program
• Self-referenced generics
• Use of 'default' in a generic program
• How to put constraints in a generic program
• Covariance and contravariance in the context of a generic program

Chapter 6: Database Programming

Subtopics:

* How to connect to a database

* Exercise simple queries to database and retrieving results from the database.

Chapter 7: Thread Programming

Subtopics:

• Threads overview
• Different case studies with multithreaded programs
• Use of ParameterizedThreadStart delegate in a multithreaded environment
• Passing multiple parameters to a thread
• Discussion on Synchronization and deadlock with examples

Chapter 8: Asynchronous Programming

Subtopics:

• Brief overview
• Different techniques to implement an asynchronous program(e.g. using async/await, thread, thread pool etc)

Chapter 9: Dynamic Programming

Subtopics:

• DLR overview
• Dynamic type and its uses
• Dynamic type checking
• Runtime look up etc.