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
  • Part IV. Working with Data
  • Hour 19. Performing File Operations
    • Using the Open File Dialog and Save File Dialog Controls
    • Manipulating Files with the File Object
    • Manipulating Directories with the Directory Object
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Workshop
  • 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

Workshop

The Workshop is designed to help you anticipate possible questions, review what you've learned, and get you thinking about how to put your knowledge into practice. The answers to the quiz are in Appendix A, "Answers to Quizzes/Exercises."

Quiz

1. True or False: The Open File dialog box automatically opens a file.
2. What symbol is used to separate a filter description from its extension?
3. What objects are used to manipulate files?
4. What arguments are required by System.IO.File.Copy()?
5. How would you rename a file?
6. True or False: Files deleted with System.IO.File.Delete() are sent to the Recycle Bin.
7. What objects are used to manipulate folders?

Exercises

1. Create a project that enables a user to select a file with the Open Dialog control. Store the filename in a text box. Provide another button that, when clicked, creates a backup of the file by making a copy of it with the extension .bak.
2. Create a project with a text box on it in which the user can type in a three-character file extension. Include a button that, when clicked, shows an Open File dialog box with the filter set to the extension entered by the user.

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