C# Console and Windows Forms Development w/ Entity Framework

Set up your development environment for C# console and Windows forms development, review required tools for Windows and non-Windows environments, explore the dotnet sdk, and prepare for installing Visual Studio.

Compare Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code, then set up the .NET 8.0 SDK in a cross‑platform, command‑line friendly workflow with Visual Studio Code and essential plugins.

Explore C# syntax basics by learning semicolon usage, case sensitivity, and disciplined variable naming, then implement strongly typed storage and meaningful comments.

Explore top level statements in C# 10 and .NET 6, showing how they simplify console apps and differ from the classic Program.cs ceremony.

Learn to produce output to users in a C# console app, design a multi-project solution with proper naming, and compare Console.WriteLine with Console.Write.

Learn to create a C# console app project in Visual Studio and define variables of strings, integers, decimals, and booleans. Print them using concatenation, interpolation, and formatted strings.

Explore data types and variables in c# by examining integers, naming rules, and booleans, and learn printing, concatenation, and type safety with age and retirement age examples.

Learn to receive user input in a C# console app by prompting for name and age, converting strings to numbers, storing values in variables, and displaying the result.

Discover how source control management tracks code changes with Git and GitHub, enabling version history, remote backups, team collaboration, and a portfolio on open source projects.

Create a GitHub account by signing up, verify your email, and log in to access profile; then synchronize code from desktop to GitHub with Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code.

Explore practical GitHub workflow techniques to track exact code versions, manage collaborators, avoid conflicts, and clone or pull updates into Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code.

Enhance the existing console program by adding salary (decimal), gender (char), and working status (bool), using prompts, type conversions, and a minimal refactor to extend output.

Master debugging with breakpoints and variable watch, identify error types, and anticipate arithmetic and assignment operators in the next section.

Explore arithmetic operators in C#, including addition, subtraction, multiplication (asterisk), division (slash), and modulus (percent), and apply bodmas (order of operations) in real-world code.

Learn how logic operators in C# compare values and return booleans, including >, <, ==, !=, and the or and and operators used in decision statements.

Summarizes a beginner C# console calculator workflow: prompts, input conversion, math and logic operations, and assignment operators, followed by committing and pushing enhancements on GitHub.

Explore if statements across languages and learn to evaluate conditions with true or false outcomes, using else blocks in a C# console app to grade and decide pass or fail.

Learn how the C# ternary operator uses a condition, a question mark, and a colon to assign pass or fail in one line, and compare it with if statements.

Explore how switch statements compare to if statements, using case clauses and break, with a default catch-all; see a day-of-week example that prints outputs based on input.

Explore how variable scope and lifetime govern accessibility across code blocks, from global to local scope, and learn to apply dry principles and the ternary operator to manage variables efficiently.

Learn to build a functional calculator in a C# console app using if and switch statements to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division from user input.

Explore the if, else if, switch, and ternary statements, understand their best-use scenarios, and learn to write readable, functional code with conditional logic.

Explore why repetition statements matter by using loops to print text x times with a counter controlled for loop, and a condition control loop that runs until the user exits.

Explore counter-controlled for loops in C#, setting a lower bound, an upper bound, and an increment, then print Hello World ten times using zero-based counting and i++.

Explore while loops as condition controlled pretest loops, learn to set sensible conditions to avoid infinite loops, and practice with a counter, increments, and a negative-one exit to accumulate sums.

Write a console app that reads age, handles conversion errors with try...catch, and uses finally to print a thank you message, illustrating format and overflow exceptions.

Refactor the calculator app to reduce try catch blocks by wrapping the loop in a single try catch, handle divide by zero, and use a finally block to prompt user.

Improve calculator stability by wrapping input and division in a single try-catch within a loop, adding specific exception handling (format and overflow) and a finally block, and committing changes.

Explore strings and datetime data types in C# and master manipulation techniques, built-in methods, and best practices for reliable Windows forms development with Entity Framework.

Explore string manipulation in C# by checking null or empty strings, obtaining length, extracting substrings, splitting into words, replacing text, converting to string, and formatting as currency.

Master date time manipulation in a C# console app, including parsing, formatting, and extracting day, time, and time zone with UTC awareness.

Explore date only and time only concepts in C# by initializing date only with year-month-day, converting from date time, and parsing with parse exact using invariant culture.

Introduce a const retirement age and date of birth as date only, parsing with parse exact to calculate age and retirement year, while formatting salary as currency.

Review how strings are immutable and create new instances, nullable strings with IsNullOrEmpty checks, and key DateTime concepts like DateTime structures, date time offset, UTC, and time zone info.