Deep Dive: C#

Deep dive into the C# programming language

About This Course

Picking up where he left off on the Getting Started with C# course, Microsoft Principal Software Engineering Manager Nick Cosentino will dive deeper into C#'s feature set and explain more advanced features and patterns. This course covers features such as object-oriented programming with C#, with sections on inheritance and composition, low-level streams, advanced methods and functions like callbacks and delegates, and explaining multithreading and asynchronous programming. If you understand the basics of C# and want to gain even more in-depth knowledge of the language, then this course is for you.

Course Curriculum

6h 28m 8 sections

Welcome

02:57 Free preview

What will you learn in this course?

04:03 Free preview

Who is this course for and prerequisites

03:20 Free preview

Primer on Classes vs Value Types

07:02

Enums

15:02

Structs

07:43

The Problem with Equality

11:52

Records

13:59

Inheritance - Intro

09:24

Inheritance - Vehicle Example

11:33

Interfaces

13:12

Abstract Classes

12:30

Working with Protected and Virtual

12:10

Composition

13:36

Head to Head - Inheritance

10:11

Head to Head - Composition & Summary

09:52

Generics

16:49

Tuples

17:50

Encoding Strings and Bytes

09:57

Streams

11:54

Reading and Writing Files

12:41

Using & Disposable

09:51

XML and JSON

13:38

Callbacks and Delegates

14:40

Extension Methods

05:05

LINQ

16:27

Lazy

05:43

Events

13:41

Multi-project solutions

06:48

Internal access modifier

05:34

NuGet Packages

05:14

Async & Concurrency Patterns Intro

05:38

Threads

08:09

Background Workers

09:36

Task Objects

09:18

Async/Await

18:39

Cancellation Tokens

09:03

Course conclusion

03:07

Meet Your Instructor

Nick Cosentino

Nick Cosentino

Nick Cosentino is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft and a .NET content creator. He manages the teams responsible for deploying the hundreds of services supporting the Microsoft365 suite of products to serve users across the planet. Nick brings his unique experiences to the Big Tech world having worked at a startup that scaled from a handful of employees to hundreds before it went public.

Nick runs a software engineering and dotnet-focused blog as well as a YouTube channel called Dev Leader. While he enjoys solving complex problems with software solutions, Nick is passionate about reducing barriers for people to get started on their software engineering journey.

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