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
  • Hour 23. Introduction to Web Development
    • XML
    • SOAP
    • ASP.NET
    • Web Forms
    • XML Web Services
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Workshop
  • Hour 24. The 10,000-Foot View
  • Appendix A. Answers to Quizzes/Exercises

Hour 23. Introduction to Web Development

Visual Studio .NET, more than any previous Microsoft technology, offers incredible Web development tools and functionality. In fact, .NET is very much about programming for the Web. Creating Web applications requires a thorough understanding of all the skills you've acquired in this book—and more. In addition to the complexities of programming that you've dealt with, such as creating forms, writing code, and so on, additional concerns exist, such as Web protocols, firewalls, Web servers, and scalability. Teaching you how to create Web applications is beyond the scope of this book. However, it's important that you're at least a little familiar with the concepts and technologies involved with Microsoft's .NET Internet programming strategy. This hour gives you an overview of the .NET Web programming technologies.

The highlights of this hour include the following:

• XML
• SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)
• ASP.NET
• Web Forms
• XML Web services

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