Overview

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Overview
Two-Day Academic Workshop in Microsoft .NET and
C
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Why .NET?

• The future of software development at Microsoft
• Multi-language, practical, industrial-strength
  technology
• Teaching
• language and compiler courses
• GUI, Web, DB, client-server courses
• give work-minded students some preparation for
  workplace
• great tool support
• Research
• source code to run-time, C compiler, core
  classes available
• lots of research directions (langs, compilers,
  web services, )

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Outline for 2 days

• DAY 1
• 1. Overview of .NET architecture
• 2. The Basics of .NET and C Development
• 3. C data types
• 4. C statements methods
• 5. OOP
• DAY 2
• 6. WinForms GUI programming in .NET
• 7. The FCL files, databases, data structures
• Web-based apps in .NET
• Web services
• 10. Resources where to go for more info

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Labs?

• Highly recommended
• Interspersed between lectures
• 6 labs are available
• to do all the labs, you need a PC with
• Windows NT / 2000 / XP Pro / 2003
• IIS (Microsoft's web server) installed with OS
• Visual Studio .NET 2002 or 2003

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Lets get started!