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

Summary

Programming for the Web is an exciting proposition, and one that can't be entered into lightly. To create robust Web applications requires an understanding of a lot of technologies, including Web servers, protocols, firewalls, security, object-oriented programming concepts, and much more. By completing this book, you're gaining a solid understanding of application development with C#, and you're building a set of skills that you can use to move into Web programming. If you're interested in Web development, you should consider purchasing a book dedicated to the subject, such as Sams Teach Yourself C# Web Programming in 21 Days.

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