C# Essential Training: 2 Flow Control, Arrays, and Exception Handling

Learn about generics in C#, find out how to work with collections, handle exceptions, use async and await for asynchronous programming, and more.

Introduction

• Essentials deep dive
• What you should know
• CoderPad tour

1. Generics

• Understanding generics
• Working with generics
• Defining generic types and methods
• Generic constraints
• Solution: Generic type with constraints

2. Working with Collections

• Understanding collection types in the BCL
• Choosing the right collection type
• Working with collections
• Working with keyed collections
• Understanding concurrent collections
• Solution: Choose the right collection

3. Exception Handling

• Basics of try-catch-finally
• Exception filtering by type with catch
• Exception filtering with when
• Throwing and rethrowing exceptions
• Creating custom exceptions
• Solution: Multiple exception types

4. Programming Threads with async and await

• Threading basics
• Basics of using async and await
• Task management
• Handling errors when using await
• Solution: Task management

5. Delegates and Events

• Understanding delegates
• Understanding events
• Common delegates with Action and Func
• Understanding lambda expressions
• Expressions as delegates
• Other uses for expressions
• Solution: Delegate using Func

6. Extension Methods

• The case for extension methods
• Writing an extension method
• Using an extension method
• Common extension methods on collections
• Solution: Extension method

7. Language Integrated Query (LINQ)

• Understand the purpose of LINQ
• Querying collections with LINQ
• Filtering and ordering queries
• Other sources for LINQ
• Solution: LINQ query to filter and sort

Conclusion

• Build something and continue learning