Advanced .NET

Reflection and Code Generation

• Reflection basics and the Type class

• Creating instances dynamically

• Getting and setting data using reflection

• Creating and using Custom Attributes

• Code generation basics

Generics

• Collections Overview ( Boxing/Unboxing)

• The need for generics

• Writing and using generic types

• Generic methods & interfaces

• Generic collections

• Generic interfaces

• Applying constraints

• Other aspects of generic programming

• Nullable types

Advanced Delegates and Events

• Working with delegates

• Creating your own delegate types

• Generic delegates

• Dynamic delegates

• Anonymous delegates

• Lambda expressions

• Events

C# 5.0 & LINQ

• Partial types and partial methods

• Iterators

• Expression Trees

• C# 5.0 basic features

• Extension methods

• LINQ to Objects

• LINQ Operators

• LinqT to SQL vs Entity Framework

• LINQ to XML

Managing Resources

• Garbage collection and its impacts

• Generations

• Finalizers

• The Dispose pattern

• The using statement

Processes, AppDomains and Threads

• Processes

• Virtual Memory

• Application Domains vs. processes

• Threads and AppDomains

• AppDomains and objects

Multithreading

• Managed vs. Unmanaged threads

• Thread scheduling

• Creating and managing threads

• The Thread class

• Thread synchronization

• Synchronization kernel objects

• The Thread Pool

• Multithreading best practices

• Winforms BackgroundWorker Control (Optional)

Tasks

• Introduction to Tasks

• Creating tasks

• Cancelling tasks

• Tasks & Exceptions

• Task schedulers

• The Parallel class

• Parallel LINQ

Modern SOA techniques

• Introduction to SOA

• WCF Basics (The ABC)

• Service call lifecycle ( Serialization to Desirialization)

• Dynamics service calling ( without service reference)

• SOAP vs. REST

• RESTful Service with Web API

.NET Core – Introduction (If time permits)

• Introduction to the .NET Core platform

• Basics of modern web application architecture using .NET Core