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
  • Hour 20. Controlling Other Applications Using Automation
  • Hour 21. Working with a Database
  • Part V. Deploying Solutions and Beyond
  • Hour 22. Deploying a Solution
    • Creating a Custom Setup Program
    • Running a Custom Setup Program
    • Uninstalling an Application You've Distributed
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Workshop
  • 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. To create a custom setup program, you start by creating what type of Visual Studio project?
2. The final build file of a project (EXE, DLL, and so on) is referred to as the what?
3. True or False: To include the output of a project, the project must be added to the solution containing the setup program.
4. Which build option creates smaller and faster builds?
5. How do you add a file to an installation?
6. If the Project menu doesn't have the menu options for creating a setup program, what might be wrong?
7. How do you add folders to the custom setup program?
8. How do you create a shortcut for a file in a setup program?

Exercises

1. Modify the setup program you created in this hour so that the shortcut created appears on the Start menu with the name Picture Viewer. Also, give the shortcut the same icon you assigned to the Picture Viewer program.
2. Modify the setup program that you created in this hour so that it creates a custom folder within the Programs folder on the Start menu. Install the shortcut to this folder.

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