Special Topics in Software Engineering:

Software Development with C#

Overview

C# is a mixture of Java, C++ and Visual Basic. It combines Java's type safety (type checking, garbage collection) with the power and flexibility of C++ (e.g. operator overloading, low-level operations). In addition to that it has some new features for component-based programming (properties and events), a kind of function pointers (delegates), reference parameters, stack objects and many other useful things. It also includes features of functional programming languages (e.g. lambda expressions) as well as SQL-like queries on memory data structures or XML (LINQ).

Contents

1. Overview
2. Symbols
3. Types
4. Expressions
5. Declarations
6. Statements
7. Classes and structs
8. Inheritance
9. Interfaces
10. Delegates
11. Exceptions
12. Namespaces and assemblies
13. Attributes
14. Threads
15. XML comments
16. Native calls
17. Pointers
18. Class library
19. C# 2.0
20. C# 3.0
21. C# 4.0

Handouts

Students attending this course can download the handouts as PDF documents from the KUSSS web page of this course.

Dates

Exam and Project

There will be a written exam.

In order to pass the course you also have to implement a small C# project. The topic of this project can be freely chosen by you. The only requirement is that the project has at least 250 lines of code.

The project has to be presented at the SSW institute (if possible on your own notebook). Please write an index.html page with a short description of the program's features as well as with download instructions. Put all project files in a directory that has your name. The best projects will be published on dotnet.jku.at.

Literature

• Mössenböck H.: Kompaktkurs C# 4.0. dpunkt.verlag 2009
• Mössenböck H.: C# to the point. Addison Wesley 2004
• Mössenböck, Beer, Birngruber, Wöß: .NET Application Development -- with C#, ADO.NET, ASP.NET. and Web Services. Addison Wesley 2004
• Beer, Birngruber, Mössenböck, Wöß: Die .NET-Technologie -- Grundlagen und Anwendungsprogrammierung. dpunkt.verlag, 2006.
• Hejlsberg A., Wiltamuth S., Golde P.: The C# Programming Language. 3rd edition, Addison-Wesley, 2008
• A.Troelsen: Pro C# 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform, 4th Edition, Apress 2007
• Calvert C., Kulkarni D.: Essential LINQ, Addison-Wesley 2009

Online Resources and Software Downloads

• Visual Studio (MSDNAA): Complete IDE obtainable from ÖH.
• Visual C# 2010 Express: A stripped-down version of Visual Studio just for C#
• .NET Framework: If you don't want to use Visual Studio. See also the online documentation that comes with the framework.
• .NET for Linux: The Mono project
• SharpDevelop: Integrated Open Source IDE for C#
• dotnet.jku.at: .NET resources from SSW