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
    • Working with Controls
    • Creating TopMost Windows
    • Creating Transparent Forms
    • Creating Scrollable Forms
    • Creating MDI Forms
    • Setting the Startup Object
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Workshop
  • 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. True or False: The first control selected in a series is always made the active control.
2. How many methods are there to add a control to a form from the toolbox?
3. If you double-click a tool in the toolbox, where on the form is it placed?
4. Which property fixes an edge of a control to an edge of a form?
5. Which property do you change to hide the grid on a form?
6. Which menu contains the functions for spacing and aligning controls?
7. Which property do you set to make a form a MDI parent?

Exercises

1. Use your knowledge of the Anchor property and modify the Picture Viewer project you built in Hour 1 so that the main form can be sized. The buttons should always stay the size that they are and in the relative location in which they're placed, but the picture box should change size to show as much of the picture as possible, given the size of the form.
2. Modify the MDI Example project in this hour so that the first child form shows another instance of itself, rather than showing an instance of the second child form.

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