Programming C#

• The solution explorer
• Managing projects
• Build rules and events
• Using hardware acceleration in WPF
• Building dynamic webpages with ASP.NET MVC
• Creating simple network services
• Games with DirectX or OpenGL
• WindowsPhone / Windows store apps

• Add or remove project resources
• Set compilation options
• Manage dependencies
• Setup (remote) debugging
• Manage projects

• A project represents an assembly
• There is a huge variety of project templates
• Differences: Basic settings, included dependencies, given code
• The given code can be a great help
• Reduces writing the same code over and over
• Also the right target framework is set

• Targets and target CPUs
• Debug files
• Build order
• Generating XML documentation files
• Symbols (definitions)
• Pre- and post build events
• Warning levels

• Framework for GUI, based on XAML
• Improved binding and styling capabilities
• Hardware acceleration of the GUI
• Disadvantage: Startup time and memory footprint
• Perfect suited for the new MVVM pattern
• Distinction: Visual tree and logical tree
• Separation is very important

• ASP introduced the webforms concept
• ASP.NET MVC is much closer to the outcome
• Very tight control and comfortable flow
• Excellent Model-View-Controller implementation
• Additionally routes, model helpers, ... included
• Very easy to extend and adjust

• The .NET-Framework offers many ways of writing network services
• Very comfortable and powerful: SignalR
• Greatest advantage: works perfect with web apps
• Here websockets or some fallback like long polling is used
• Easy communication between apps

• Various game engines exist
• Well known and very well working: XNA
• For 2D gaming one example is SDL.NET
• Cross-platform and established: MonoGame
• Another interesting cross-platform engine: WAVE
• Under Windows we can use DirectX or OpenGL

• C# is one of the official languages for Windows apps
• That includes Windows 8, Windows RT, Windows Phone 7 / 8
• Windows Store apps are XAML based (like WPF)
• However, they can only use the .NET core
• They run sandboxed, i.e. with reduced rights
• Accessing the filesystem is not (directly) possible
• We have to use a new API called WinRT

Florian Rappl, MVP Visual C#

• My homepage: www.florian-rappl.de
• My email address: mail@florian-rappl.de
• Find me on Google+: gplus.to/FlorianRappl

• The lecture is available online at csharp.florian-rappl.de