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#
    • Using the Visual Studio .NET Start Page
    • Navigating and Customizing the C# Environment
    • Adding Controls to a Form Using the Toolbox
    • Setting Object Properties Using the Properties Window
    • Managing Projects
    • Managing Project Files with the Solution Explorer
    • Getting Help
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Workshop
  • 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
  • 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. How can you make the Visual Studio Start Page appear at startup if this feature has been disabled?
2. Unless instructed otherwise, you are to create what type of project when building examples in this book?
3. To make a docked design window appear when you hover over its tab and disappear when you move the mouse away from it, you change what setting of the window?
4. How do you access the Toolbars menu?
5. What design window do you use to add controls to a form?
6. What design window is used to change the attributes of an object?
7. To modify the properties of a project, you must select the project in what design window?
8. Which Help feature adjusts the links it displays to match what it is you are doing?

Exercises

1. Create a custom toolbar that contains Save All, Start, and Stop Debugging—three buttons you'll use a lot throughout this book.
2. Use the Custom Color dialog box to create a color of your choice, and then assign the color to the BackColor property of a form.

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