Certified Software Developer Advance (C#)

1. key Topics

• Delegates and events
• Delegates
• Events
• Anonymous types
• Tuples
• The Tuple class
• Value tuples
• Pattern matching
• The is expression
• The switch expression
• Regular expressions
• Overview
• 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