Mark Scerri – Eye on the web

As I promised in my first post I will start uploading a series of C# tutorials for those of you who want to dirty their hands in this fabulous language. In this introductory post I will explain how I will divide this series of tutorials. But before I do that I will tell you what you will gain after reading this series of tutorials.

After you have finished this series of tutorials you will be able to create .NET applications that:

• use system types and collections,
• implement multi-threading,
• use classes that can be serialized so that they can be easily stored and transferred,
• are able to communicate with other applications (even applications written in old languages),
• are able to send e-mail messages,
• are secure,
• are multilingual and can be used in different languages, and finally
• contain multimedia such as videos, images, charts and the rest.

It is very important to note that in this series of tutorials I am assuming that you have some knowledge (not a lot) in application development using any object-oriented language (preferably C# or Visual Basic), and that you have some basic knowledge of how Microsoft Windows works. It would be great if you go over the basic syntax of C# (nothing complex).

Before you can start this series of tutorials make sure that you have the following software requirments:

• Operating System (any of the following): Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4, Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows XP x64, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2003 x64, Windows Server 2003 R2, or Windows Vista.
• Additional Software: Microsoft Visual C# Express Edition, which you can get from here.

In the first 4 tutorials we will be going through the .NET fundamentals mainly using value and reference types, constructing classes, and converting between types.

So it looks exciting doesn’t it? Well stay tuned for the first tutorial that I will upload in the coming days. By that time if you have any comments or any queries just leave a comment. CU soon!!!