What you should know before starting this course

This course is designed for software developers who either already use the C# programming language, or are curious about it and want to compare it to other languages. If you're brand new to C# and Visual Studio, you might be interested in these Lynda.com courses. For your first introduction to the language, check out Up and Running with C#. And to get into more details about programming with C#, look at C# Essential Training.

To learn your way around Visual Studio, you can look at these courses. Visual Studio 2012 Essential Training, which is a complete tour of the product. And Visual Studio 2013 for Web Developers, which focuses on aspects of the product that are unique to web development. If you'd like to open the solutions I provide as part of the course, you'll need some software. You can either use one of the pay for licence versions of Visual Studio, for example Visual Studio Professional 2013, or you can use free software.

To work with console applications, or desktop applications built with the wind forms or WPF frameworks, you can use Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Desktop. The sample code that I provide as part of the course should open fine in either the free or the paid versions of the product. So, let's get started with Code Clinic for C#.