Sams Teach Yourself C# in 24 Hours

By James Foxall and Wendy Haro-Chun

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • About the Authors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Tell Us What You Think!
  • Introduction
  • Audience and Organization
  • Conventions Used in This Book
  • Onward and Upward!
  • Part I. The Visual Studio Environment
  • Hour 1. A C# Programming Tour
  • Hour 2. Navigating C#
  • Hour 3. Understanding Objects and Collections
  • Hour 4. Understanding Events
  • Part II. Building a User Interface
  • Hour 5. Building FormsPart I
  • Hour 6. Building FormsPart II
  • Hour 7. Working with the Traditional Controls
  • Hour 8. Advanced Controls
  • Hour 9. Adding Menus and Toolbars to Forms
  • Hour 10. Drawing and Printing
  • Part III. Making Things HappenProgramming!
  • Hour 11. Creating and Calling Methods
  • Hour 12. Using Constants, Data Types, Variables, and Arrays
  • Hour 13. Performing Arithmetic, String Manipulation, and Date/Time Adjustments
  • Hour 14. Making Decisions in C# Code
  • Hour 15. Looping for Efficiency
  • Hour 16. Debugging Your Code
  • Hour 17. Designing Objects Using Classes
  • Hour 18. Interacting with Users
    • Displaying Messages Using the MessageBox.Show() Method
    • Creating Custom Dialog Boxes
    • Interacting with the Keyboard
    • Using the Common Mouse Events
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Workshop
  • Part IV. Working with Data
  • Hour 19. Performing File Operations
  • Hour 20. Controlling Other Applications Using Automation
  • Hour 21. Working with a Database
  • Part V. Deploying Solutions and Beyond
  • Hour 22. Deploying a Solution
  • Hour 23. Introduction to Web Development
  • Hour 24. The 10,000-Foot View
  • Appendix A. Answers to Quizzes/Exercises

Q&A

1. Is it possible to capture keystrokes at the form level, rather than capturing them in control events?

   Yes. For the form's keyboard-related events to fire when a control has the focus, however, you must set the form's KeyPreview property to true. The control's keyboard events will still fire, unless you set KeyAscii = 0 in the form's KeyPress event and KeyCode = 0 in the form's KeyDown event.

2. You don't seem to always specify a button in your MessageBox.Show() statements throughout this book. Why?

   If you don't explicitly designate a button or buttons, C# displays the OK button. Therefore, if all you want is an OK button, you do not need to pass a value to the buttons argument.

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