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
    • Changing the Name of a Form
    • Changing the Appearance of a Form
    • Showing and Hiding Forms
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Workshop
  • 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."

1. Quiz

2. True or False: The text displayed in the form's title bar is determined by the value in the TitleBarText property.
3. The named color Control is what kind of color?
4. In what three places are a form's icon displayed?
5. A window with a smaller than normal title bar is called what?
6. For a Minimize or Maximize button to be visible on a form, what other element must be visible?
7. What, in general, is the best value to use for the StartPosition property of a form?
8. To maximize, minimize, or restore a form in code, you set what property?
9. True or False: To display a form, you must create a variable in code.
10. What property do you set to make a hidden form appear?

Exercises

1. Create a semitransparent form with a picture in its background. (Hint: Change the form's Opaque property.) Does the image become transparent? Add some controls to the form. Does the image appear behind or in front of the controls? (Hint: To create a transparent form, set the form's Opacity to something other than 100%—try 50%.)
2. Create a Windows Application with three forms. Give the startup form two buttons. Make the other two forms tool windows, and make one button display one tool window and the other button display the second tool window.

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