Sams Teach Yourself .Net in 21 Days

By Jason Beres

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • About the Author
  • About the Technical Editor
  • Acknowledgments
  • We Want to Hear from You
  • Introduction
  • Week 1: At a Glance
  • Day 1. Introduction to the Microsoft .NET Framework
  • Day 2. Introduction to Visual Studio .NET
  • Day 3. Writing Windows Forms Applications
  • Day 4. Deploying Windows Forms Applications
  • Day 5. Writing ASP.NET Applications
  • Day 6. Deploying ASP.NET Applications
  • Day 7. Exceptions, Debugging, and Tracing
  • Week 1. In Review
  • Week 2: At a Glance
  • Day 8. Core Language Concepts in Visual Basic .NET and C#
    • Languages in the .NET Framework
    • Understanding CLS Data Types in Visual Basic .NET and C#
    • Declaring Variables in Visual Basic .NET and C
    • Understanding Operators
    • Using Decision Structures
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Exercises
    • Quiz
  • Day 9. Using Namespaces in .NET
  • Day 10. Accessing Data with ADO.NET
  • Day 11. Understanding Visual Database Tools
  • Day 12. Accessing XML in .NET
  • Day 13. XML Web Services in .NET
  • Day 14. Components and .NET
  • Week 2. In Review
  • Week 3: At a Glance
  • Day 15. Writing International Applications
  • Day 16. Using Macros in Visual Studio .NET
  • Day 17. Automating Visual Studio .NET
  • Day 18. Using Crystal Reports
  • Day 19. Understanding Microsoft Application Center Test
  • Day 20. Using Visual SourceSafe
  • Day 21. Object Role Modeling with Visio
  • Week 3. In Review

Exercises

Because there's way too much to cover in one day, these exercises have you do some additional reading in the .NET Framework SDK.

1. Using the Dynamic Help in the Visual Studio .NET IDE, look up the System.Convert and the System.String namespaces. Study the new conversion and string manipulation features available to you in the FCL. These are very important classes to become familiar with.
2. Look up arrays in Dynamic Help and understand the syntax of arrays and how you can use them to store information.
3. Create a new Visual Studio .NET Windows Forms application. Using what you learned today about operators and decision structures, copy some of the code from the listings into the click event of a button control, and step through the code using the debugging techniques you learned about yesterday. This will help you understand what state the variables are in when you're using the different operators and decision structures.

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