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

Day 8. Core Language Concepts in Visual Basic .NET and C#

Last week, you learned about the user interface elements in Windows Forms and ASP.NET applications. You wrote a lot of code, and you might or might not have had a full understanding of what it was doing. Today, you're going to learn about the fundamentals of the Visual Basic .NET and C# languages. By the end of the day, you should see that the difference between the two languages is very minor, and you shouldn't be afraid to use one or the other when you start developing .NET applications. Today, you learn

• What the different .NET languages offer
• Different data types in .NET
• How to declare and use variables
• Different scope options for variables
• How to implement operators
• How to implement looping structures
• How to implement decision structures

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