C# Programming Level 2: Advanced Programming Techniques

1 Advanced Topics Delegates and events Delegates Events Anonymous types Tuples The Tuple class Value tuples Pattern matching The is expression The switch expression Regular expressions Matching input text Finding substrings Replacing parts of a text Extension methods 2 Resource Management Garbage collection Finalizers The IDisposable interface The using statement Platform invoke Unsafe code 3 Lambdas, LINQ, and Functional Programming Functional programming Functions as first-class citizens Lambda expressions LINQ Standard query operators Query syntax Currying Closures Monoids Monads 4 Reflection and Dynamic Programming Understanding reflection Dynamically loading assemblies Understanding late binding Using the dynamic type Attributes System attributes User-defined attributes How to use attributes? Attribute targets Assembly attributes Attributes in reflection 5 Multithreading and Asynchronous Programming What is a thread? Creating threads in .NET Using the ThreadPool class Understanding synchronization primitives The task paradigm Synchronous implementations of asynchronous methods Occasionally asynchronous methods Breaking the task chain – blocking the thread Manually creating a task Long-running tasks Breaking the task chain – fire and forget Task and exceptions Canceling a task Monitoring the progress of a task Parallelizing tasks Signaling tasks with the TaskCompletionSource object Synchronization context 6 Unit Testing What is unit testing? What are Microsoft tools for unit testing? Creating a C# unit testing project Writing unit tests Analyzing code coverage The anatomy of a test Writing data-driven unit tests Data from attributes Dynamic data Data from external sources