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

ASP.NET

ASP.NET is the next evolution of ASP (Active Server Pages). ASP.NET is a framework for creating applications that reside on a Web server and that are run from within a client browser. ASP.NET enables you to program Web-based client-server applications using tools and methodologies much like those used to create traditional applications.

ASP.NET solutions execute on a Web server running Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS). Therefore, to create ASP.NET solutions, you'll need to have some knowledge of IIS.

In a nutshell, ASP.NET is used to dynamically generate Web pages by serving up Web Forms (discussed shortly). For example, you may create an e-commerce site where a user may choose to view all products by category. Using ASP.NET, you could dynamically build and display a Web page containing the appropriate list of products. The server would execute the code to build the new Web page and then send the page to the user's browser as an HTML document.

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