Getting Started with Visual C# 2010

Step-by-Step Basics to Get You on Your Way

The C# language began ten years ago as Microsoft’s flagship language in its new .NET framework. Ten years and four versions later, C# has proven to be one of the most innovative and robust languages available. In this workshop professional developer Edward Tanguay teaches you the basics of the C# language and how to create the most useful types of projects with free tools that you can install on any Windows machine. You’ll learn how to create a WPF application, various kinds of Silverlight applications, a classic ASP.NET page, an ASP.NET MVC page, and more. Whether you’re a programming novice or a professional developer fluent in other languages and platforms, "Getting Started with Visual C# 2010" will get you quickly up to speed.

Trainer: Edward Tanguay

March, 2011

Duration: 2 hrs 15 min

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Welcome to Getting Started with Visual C# 2010

Visual Web Developer 2010 Express is a free IDE that can be downloaded from the Microsoft web site. In this section you will see how to use this free tool to create five different kinds of projects: a Silverlight widget which we will embed in an HTML page, a Silverlight Out-of-Browser application, a Silverlight Elevated Trust application, a class ASP.NET web application, and an ASP.NET MVC application.

Visual Web Developer 2010 Express Jumpstarts
- In this lesson you will see step by step how to download and install the free Visual Web Developer on your computer so that you can create Silverlight and ASP.NET web applications.
  
  Installing Visual Web Developer 2010 Express
  
  05:02
- In this video you will learn everything you need to know to create a small Silverlight widget with user interactivity and embed it in an HTML page. This way you can use your C# skills to decorate HTML pages and give them more functionality by embedding Silverlight in them.
  
  Creating a C# Silverlight Application Inside an HTML Page
  
  10:01
- A Silverlight out-of-browser application is one in which the user goes to a web site, right-clicks the Silverlight application, and installs it on their computer, either Windows or Mac. In this lesson you'll see how to create an out-of-the-browser Silverlight application that loads data saved in a Google Docs document.
  
  Creating a C# Silverlight Out-of-Browser Application
  
  09:48
- A Silverlight Elevated Trust application is an out-of-browser application that is also able to read and write files to the hard drive in specific folders such as "My Documents" (or on OSX: /users/username/Documents). In this lesson you'll learn how to extend the application we built in the last lesson so that it saves the Google Doc contents locally to a .csv file that can be opened by Excel.
  
  Creating a C# Silverlight Elevated Trust Application
  
  07:05
- With Visual Studio 2010, there are two ways to make ASP.NET applications: Classic ASP.NET and the newer ASP.NET MVC approach. The classic method is an event-based programming model that was designed to allow application developers to quickly transfer their skills in software development to web site development. In this video, you will see how to quickly set up a classic ASP.NET website.
  
  Creating a Classic ASP.NET Web Application
  
  05:39
- ASP.NET MVC is a recent product designed to let traditional web developers develop websites at the HTML/CSS/Javascript level while at the same time taking advantage of the functionality provided to them by the ASP.NET framework. In this lesson, you'll learn how to quickly set up an ASP.NET MVC website.
  
  Creating an C# ASP.NET MVC 2.0 Application
  
  12:14
Visual C# 2010 Express is a free IDE that can be downloaded from the Microsoft web site. In this section you will see how to use this free tool to create both a WPF application and a console application.

Visual C# 2010 Express Jumpstarts
- In this lesson you will see step-by-step how to download and install the free Visual C# 2010 Express on your computer so that you can create WPF and console applications. This installation also installs SQL Server 2008 Express which is a free database which is used later in this video training as well.
  
  Installing Visual C# 2010 Express
  
  06:30
- WPF is a technology that enables you to make Windows applications that can be installed on Windows computers and look like, say, Microsoft Word. Windows Forms was the old way to make Windows applications; today you want to use WPF. In this lesson, you will see how to create a simple calculator application in WPF, publish it as an .exe, and install it.
  
  Creating a C# WPF Application
  
  12:01
- Console applications enable you to create custom commands that you can type in at the Windows command prompt. In this lesson you'll learn how to create a backup command that allows you to type "dailybackup" at the command prompt to make a copy of a specific file in any directory.
  
  Creating a C# Console Application
  
  06:17
In this chapter you'll be introduced to the most common variable types used in C#, from strings and numbers to arrays and operators.

Basic Variable Types
- This lesson teaches you the basics of working with strings in C#. It will show you the syntax peculiarities you need to be aware of when defining strings and explain when and how you need to use StringBuilder instead of strings.
  
  Strings and String Builder
  
  10:33
- In this lesson you'll learn about the most common string functions as well as the character type and how it relates to the string type.
  
  String Functions and Characters
  
  08:59
- In this lesson you'll learn an easy rule for deciding when to use which number variable type: int, decimal, long, float, or double.
  
  Numbers
  
  06:59
- This lesson demonstrates the convenient functions that C# offers to easily display dates and calculate dates and durations.
  
  Dates
  
  09:36
- This lesson quickly introduces the boolean type, a simple but often-used C# type.
  
  Boolean
  
  03:36
- Arrays allow you to store collections of one particular type of object. In this lesson you'll see how to create arrays of integers, decimals, and strings, how to use common methods on them such as Join() and Split(), and how to create and use multidimensional arrays.
  
  Arrays
  
  11:10
- Operators such as +, -, >=, ==, and so on are basic components of any programming language. This lesson covers each operator and shows you how they work in examples, including the ternary and null coalescing operator, which will make your code much more concise and easy to read.
  
  Operators
  
  12:14

Welcome to Getting Started with Visual C# 2010

In this video training, professional developer Edward Tanguay teaches you the basics of the C# language using the free software Visual C# 2010 Express and Visual Web Developer 2010 Express. You first learn how to install these two pieces of software and then use them to create seven of the most popular types of projects:

A Silverlight widget for a plain HTML page
A Silverlight Out-of-Browser application
A Silverlight Elevated Trust application
A classic ASP.NET web site
A ASP.NET MVC web site application
A WPF application
A console application

Armed with this knowledge, you will then learn about the basic variable types in C#. Beginning with the fundamentals of working with strings and the syntax peculiarities you need to be aware of when defining strings, you’ll move on to learn about string functions and characters, numbers, dates, arrays, operators, and more.

The lessons are wrapped in a feature-rich interface that lets you jump to any topic and bookmark individual sections for later review. Full-Screen mode provides a hi-def, immersive experience, and Watch-and-Work mode shrinks the video into a small window so you can play the videos alongside your application. Also included are exercise files that give you an easy way to try out the techniques you learn.

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Screen resolution 1024x768 or higher
Sound card with speakers or headphones attached
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512 MB RAM

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Great introduction

Resul C.

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