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Earn your C# Certification with new Learning Series

Katie Savage — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 17:09:40 +0000

We are excited to announce our new C# for Certification email learning series.

🚀 Sign up for the learning series: https://aka.ms/learningseries/csharp/signup

This eight-week email series is intended to provide you with all the resources you need to complete the Foundational C# Certification training and take the exam. The learning series will give you a structured learning path and new content to learn each week.

How does the C# Certification learning series work?

Sign up for the learning series: https://aka.ms/learningseries/csharp/signup
Check your inbox each week to find a new lesson with a structured learning path, and additional resources.
Complete the learning path and hands-on projects.
Take the exam and earn your certification!

What is C#?

C# (pronounced "See Sharp") is a modern, object-oriented, and type-safe programming language. C# enables developers to build many types of secure and robust applications that run in .NET. With C#, you can build...

Business applications to capture, analyze, and process data
Dynamic web applications that can be accessed from a web browser
Games, both 2D and 3D
Financial and scientific applications
Cloud-based applications
Mobile applications

...and more!

The C# Roadmap

As a C# beginner, it can be difficult to know where to start. The C# Roadmap below was created by experts at Microsoft.

Get started!
Write your first code using C#
Create and run simple C# console applications
Add logic to C# console applications
Work with variable data in C# console applications
Create methods in C# console applications
Debug C# console applications
Wrap up and additional learning resources

🚀 Begin earning your C# Certification today: https://aka.ms/learningseries/csharp/signup

Not ready to sign up for the series? Get access to the content through the Foundational C# Certification page: https://aka.ms/csharp/certification

Build your portfolio at the .NET Conf Student Zone

Katie Savage — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 18:43:55 +0000

⭐Come to the .NET Student Zone this year at .NET Conf⭐

On November 7, come build some awesome projects with Microsoft experts and learn all about .NET. You will walk away with a project portfolio on your very own portfolio website – don't worry, we will build it right along with you.

In each 30-minute session, you will build an app or project to add to your .NET portfolio. You will build web apps, a mobile app, an ML project, and more! At the end of the event, we will give you the tools you need to ace your next coding assignment with Visual Studio!

Register

Session 1 - Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific - Register Now
Session 2 - North and South America - Register Now

More Details

When: November 7, 2022

Session 1 (12:00PM UTC | 07:00AM EST): Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific Timezones
Session 2 (10:30PM UTC | 05:30PM EST): North and South America Timezones

Agenda:

Session	Title	Speaker
1	Welcome to the Student Zone	Scott Hanselman, Katie Savage
2	Create a GitHub Profile	Bethany Jepchumba
3	Build your Project Portfolio website with .NET	Vincent Nwonah
4	Detect water bottle consumption from IoT sensors	Krzysztof Wicher
5	Use machine learning to estimate future water consumption	Carlotta Castelluccio
6	Add a backend to your website	Chris Noring
7	Build a mobile app to track water consumption	Someleze Diko
8	Build a water consumption tracker website	Justin Yoo
9	Ace your next assignment with .NET	Diego Colombo

Want more? Join the Challenge!

After enjoying the .NET Conf Student Zone, you will be ready to complete the .NET Conf Student Zone Cloud Skills Challenge. The challenge is open to all students who registered for .NET Conf on November 7 and three lucky winners will get a .NET Conf SWAG bag! 🎁🎉

Enter the challenge by filling out this form:http://aka.ms/dotnetstudententry

Learn web development using .NET and Visual Studio

Katie Savage — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 21:56:26 +0000

Have you ever wanted to try out web development with .NET, but are not sure where to get started?

The .NET team at Microsoft is excited to announce our new Web Learning series! Let us take you through the basics of web development with .NET by building some awesome projects with C#, Razor Pages, Blazor, and more! In this free, 6-part series, we will teach you something new every week and get you up to speed with the wonderful world of web development with .NET.

Sign up

What to expect

In this series of emails, we’ll go over the following topics:

Week 1 – This welcome email!
Week 2 – C# for web development crash course
Week 3 – We'll build our first pizza website with Razor Pages 🍕
Week 4 – Upgrade our pizza website with a backend using Minimal APIs
Week 5 – Create a Connect 4 Interactive Web Applications with Blazor
Week 6 – Connect to the cloud by publishing with Azure

Sneak Peak

You can also get a sneak peak at the content by checking out our GitHub Repository.

Looking for more?

Local .NET MAUI events happening around the world!

Katie Savage — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 23:01:20 +0000

.NET MAUI is finally here! With .NET MAUI you can build native, cross-platform desktop and mobile apps from a single C# codebase. To celebrate, we are collaborating with community members around the globe through local in-person (and online) .NET MAUI events and meetups. Join Microsoft team members and the community to hear all about .NET MAUI and learn how you can create your first .NET MAUI project.

Each event will event will kick off with an introduction to .NET MAUI run by a .NET expert. This session will announce the launch of .NET MAUI, product roadmap, an introduction into the architecture, and live code demos. The introduction will be followed by a workshop where you can start to build your very first multi-platform app with .NET MAUI.

FREE Pizza will be provided at some locations! 🍕

When & Where

This event is running in multiple cities throughout August and September. Register for an event in

August 22: Redmond, WA, USA
August 25: San Francisco, CA, USA
August 27: Bengaluru, India
August 27: Sydney, Australia
September: London, UK
September: Tel Aviv, Israel

And more! Check out the updated list of events here: .NET MAUI @ Microsoft Reactor

Each event will be live streamed, so you can tune in ONLINE!

What

Come learn something new and leave with something that we all built, together, live with experts. The agenda will vary location by location but here is what can expect:

Introduction: What is .NET MAUI? What does the architecture look like? And, what is the product roadmap? Come find out!
Workshop
Q&A: Get all your .NET MAUI questions answered!

RSVP Today

Go to our Registration Page to find an event near you!

Looking for more .NET MAUI?

Find or host a .NET MAUI Meetup
Don't forget to check out the .NET Conf: Focus on MAUI Focus event on August 9th
Start a self-guided .NET MAUI learning path
Watch the .NET MAUI beginner videos series