Important C# functionalities every developer should get hands on

C# since its inception has gone through many changes and new feature gets added every now and then, here is list of what every developer should try to get hands on.
Most of it will be applicable for any OOP language.

  1. Principal of OOP (Inheritance/Encapsulation/Abstraction/Polymorphism).
  2. Abstract class and Interface.
  3. Generic classes and functions.
  4. SOLID principles.
  5. delegate and its use.
  6. Fun<>.
  7. Implement functional programming using C#. (Will help you understand how all this .where().select() works)
  8. Reflection. (Try to mimic ORM using reflection)
  9. var,dynamic,Tupple,ValuedTupple
  10. Most common design patterns.

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