After completing the course, students will be able to create Console Application projects in Visual Studio .NET 2010; convert a variable from one data type to another; work with dates and times; repeat blocks of code using looping statements; generate and test your own classes using the Class Designer and Object Test Bench tools; use methods in your classes; control how derived classes inherit from base classes; create classes containing arrays, adding support for indexers and enumerators; use Exception objects to determine what error has occurred.