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

SOAP

To pass structured data across the Web (such as passing objects or calling methods on objects), the sender and receiver must agree on how the data will be transmitted. SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is Microsoft's new protocol used to exchange structured data over the Web using an XML format. SOAP is lightweight (doesn't consume a lot of resources or bandwidth) and makes use of the widely accepted HTTP protocol. SOAP is fundamental to Microsoft's .NET strategy because it allows different applications on multiple platforms to share structured data and interoperate across the Web.

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