PG451 - Introduction to Visual C# .NET Programming

Course Description

This course, intended for students with no previous C# experience, introduces the Visual Studio development environment and fundamental C# programming statements. Learn to use Visual Studio to design professional user interfaces that feature a variety of Windows controls, including buttons, text boxes, combo boxes, and radio buttons. Add C# code behind your Windows forms to interact with users and add logic to your applications. Review essential programming concepts, including variable declarations, conditional statements, loops, and arrays, using the C# syntax. Other topics include an introduction to classes and methods using fundamental classes in the .NET Framework.

In this course, you will learn to: 

• Design Windows forms that feature a variety of controls, including buttons, labels, text boxes, combo boxes, radio buttons, check boxes, and track bars. 

• Manipulate the properties of controls during design time and runtime. 

• Understand the syntax for referencing the properties, methods, and events of several common C# objects. 

• Write code to respond to user events, like button clicks and option selections. 

• Declare and assign values to variables, using predefined data types for integers, floating-point numbers, and strings. 

• Write if and switch statements to respond conditionally to users’ choices. 

• Use message boxes to interact with the user. 

• Write do, while, and for loops to execute statements repeatedly. 

• Declare and initialize array variables and reference specific array elements.