Programming C# 6, Part 02 of 12: Your First App

Course description

Nothing is stopping you from using your favorite text editor and command line tools to build .NET projects, but Visual Studio provides an environment that will help you be much more productive. In this course you'll learn about some of the best features of Visual Studio and learn how to create complete solutions with it. You'll also learn about the rich support for debugging in both C# and Visual Studio, so you can hunt down the causes for problems in your applications.

Each LearnNowOnline training course is made up of Modules (typically an hour in length). Within each module there are Topics (typically 15-30 minutes each) and Subtopics (typically 2-5 minutes each). There is a Post Exam for each Module that must be passed with a score of 70% or higher to successfully and fully complete the course.

Prerequisites

This is an entry level course. Some amount of programming experience will be helpful and speed up your learning but you can jump right into this course at any level.

Meet the expert

Don Kiely

Don Kiely is a featured instructor on many of our SQL Server and Visual Studio courses. He is a nationally recognized author, instructor, and consultant specializing in Microsoft technologies. Don has many years of teaching experience, is the author or co-author of several programming books, and has spoken at many industry conferences and user groups. In addition, Don is a consultant for a variety of companies that develop distributed applications for public and private organizations.

Video Runtime

134 Minutes

Time to complete

509 Minutes

Course Outline

Your First App

Using Visual Studio (16:04)

• Introduction (01:08)
• Working with Profile Settings (03:44)
• Demo: Profile Settings (06:14)
• Demo: Import & Reset Settings (04:43)
• Summary (00:13)

Building Console App (12:16)

• Introduction (00:20)
• Demo: Visual Stuido Options (03:52)
• Demo: New Project (03:58)
• Demo: Visual Studio Workspace (03:35)
• Summary (00:30)

Solution Explorer (14:27)

• Introduction (00:25)
• Demo: Solution Explorer (05:11)
• Demo: Project Properties (03:58)
• Demo: Changing Namespaces (04:18)
• Summary (00:33)

Comments and Intellisense (16:23)

• Introduction (00:35)
• Demo: References (04:43)
• Demo: Comments (04:29)
• Demo: Intellisense (06:07)
• Summary (00:28)

Building Projects (15:54)

• Introduction (00:30)
• Demo: Building a Project (06:11)
• Demo: Build Menu (03:36)
• Demo: Configuration Manager (04:59)
• Summary (00:36)

Debugging and Errors

Debugging Code (23:20)

• Introduction (00:39)
• Code Error Types (01:36)
• Demo: Debug Project (06:10)
• Demo: Application Testing (03:35)
• Demo: Syntax Errors (05:46)
• Demo: Dealing with Errors (05:01)
• Summary (00:31)

Breakpoints (17:33)

• Introduction (00:31)
• Breakpoints (03:46)
• Demo: Set Breakpoints (05:55)
• Demo: Breakpoint Window (04:13)
• Demo: The Debugger (02:39)
• Summary (00:27)

Runtime and Logic Errors (18:33)

• Introduction (00:19)
• Demo: Runtime Errors (04:50)
• Handling Errors (01:41)
• Demo: Handling Errors (06:07)
• Demo: Logic Errors (02:12)
• Investigating Exceptions (01:48)
• Structured Exception Handling (01:13)
• Summary (00:21)