Beginning Visual C# 2010

Update to Wrox's leading C# book for beginners

Get ready for the next release of Microsoft's C# programming
language with this essential Wrox beginner's guide. Beginning
Microsoft Visual C# 2010 starts with the basics and brings you
thoroughly up to speed. You'll first cover the fundamentals such as
variables, flow control, and object-oriented programming and
gradually build your skills for Web and Windows programming,
Windows forms, and data access.

Step-by-step directions walk you through processes and invite
you to "Try it Out," at every stage. By the end, you'll be able to
write useful programming code following the steps you've learned in
this thorough, practical book.

• The C# 4 programming language version will be synonymous with
  writing code with in C# 2010 in Visual Studio 2010, and you can use
  it to write Windows applications, Web apps with ASP.NET, and
  Windows Mobile and Embedded CE apps

• Provides step-by-step instructions for mastering topics such as
  variables, flow controls, and object-oriented programming before
  moving to Web and Windows programming and data access

• Addresses expressions, functions, debugging, error handling,
  classes, collections, comparisons, conversions, and more

If you've always wanted to master Visual C# programming, this
book is the perfect one-stop resource.

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are
not included as part of eBook file.

Autorentext

Karli Watson is an author and a consultant for Infusion. Christian Nagel is an author, Microsoft Regional Director, and software architect with more than 20 years of experience. Jacob Hammer Pedersen is an author and senior application developer at Elbek & Vejrup, Denmark. Jon D. Reid is Software Engineering Manager at Metrix LLC. Morgan Skinner is a consultant for Microsoft UK. Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

Zusammenfassung
Update to Wrox's leading C# book for beginners Get ready for the next release of Microsoft's C# programming language with this essential Wrox beginner's guide. Beginning Microsoft Visual C# 2010 starts with the basics and brings you thoroughly up to speed. You'll first cover the fundamentals such as variables, flow control, and object-oriented programming and gradually build your skills for Web and Windows programming, Windows forms, and data access.

Step-by-step directions walk you through processes and invite you to "Try it Out," at every stage. By the end, you'll be able to write useful programming code following the steps you've learned in this thorough, practical book.

• The C# 4 programming language version will be synonymous with writing code with in C# 2010 in Visual Studio 2010, and you can use it to write Windows applications, Web apps with ASP.NET, and Windows Mobile and Embedded CE apps
• Provides step-by-step instructions for mastering topics such as variables, flow controls, and object-oriented programming before moving to Web and Windows programming and data access
• Addresses expressions, functions, debugging, error handling, classes, collections, comparisons, conversions, and more
  If you've always wanted to master Visual C# programming, this book is the perfect one-stop resource.

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

Inhalt

Introduction xxxiii

Part I: The C# Language

Chapter 1: Introducing C# 3

What is the .NET Framework? 3

What's in the .NET Framework? 4

Writing Applications Using the .NET Framework 5

CIL and JIT 5

Assemblies 5

Managed Code 6

Garbage Collection 6

Fitting It Together 7

Linking 8

What is C#? 8

Applications You Can Write with C# 9

C# in This Book 10

Visual Studio 2010 10

Visual Studio 2010 Express Products 11

Solutions 11

Summary 11

Chapter 2: Writing A C# Program 13

The Development Environments 14

Visual Studio 2010 14

Visual C# 2010 Express Edition 17

Console Applications 18

The Solution Explorer 22

The Properties Window 23

The Error List Window 23

Windows Forms Applications 24

Summary 28

Chapter 3: Variables and Expressions 31

Basic C# Syntax 32

Basic C# Console Application Structure 34

Variables 35

Simple Types 36

Variable Naming 40

Naming Conventions 41

Literal Values 42

String Literals 43

Variable Declaration and Assignment 44

Expressions 45

Mathematical Operators 45

Assignment Operators 50

Operator Precedence 51

Namespaces 51

Summary 55

Chapter 4: Flow Control 59

Boolean Logic 59

Boolean Assignment Operators 62

Bitwise Operators 64

Operator Precedence Updated 68

The goto Statement 68

Branching 69

The Ternary Operator 70

The if Statement 70

Checking More Conditions Using if Statements 73

The switch Statement 74

Looping 77

do Loops 78

while Loops 80

for Loops 83

Interrupting Loops 87

Infinite Loops 88

Summary 89

Chapter 5: More About Variables 93

Type Conversion 94

Implicit Conversions 94

Explicit Conversions 96

Explicit Conversions Using the Convert Commands 99

Complex Variable Types 102

Enumerations 102

Defining Enumerations 103

Structs 107

Defining Structs 107

Arrays 110

Declaring Arrays 110

foreach Loops 113

Multidimensional Arrays 113

Arrays of Arrays 115

String Manipulation 116

Summary 121

Chapter 6: Functions 125

Defining and Using Functions 126

Return Values 128

Parameters 130

Parameter Matching 132

Parameter Arrays 132

Reference and Value Parameters 134

Out Parameters 136

Variable Scope 137

Variable Scope in Other Structures 140

Parameters and Return Values versus Global Data 142

The Main() Function 143

Struct Functions 146

Overloading Functions 147

Delegates 149

Summary 152

Chapter 7: Debugging and Error Handling 155

Debugging in VS and VCE 156

Debugging in Nonbreak (Normal) Mode 157

Outputting Debugging Information 158 &lt...