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
    • Displaying Static Text with the Label Control
    • Allowing Users to Enter Text Using a Text Box
    • Creating Buttons
    • Creating Containers and Groups of Option Buttons
    • Displaying a List with the List Box
    • Creating Drop-Down Lists Using the Combo Box
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Workshop
  • 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. Which control would you use to display text that the user can't edit?
2. What common property is shared by the Label control and text box 2and whose value determines what the user sees in the control?
3. To change the Height of a text box, you must set what property?
4. What is the default event of a Button control?
5. A button whose Click event is triggered when the user presses Enter, regardless of the control that has the focus, is called an…?
6. Which control would you use to display a yes/no value to a user?
7. How would you create two distinct sets of mutually exclusive option buttons?
8. To manipulate items in a list, you use what collection?
9. What method adds an item to a list in a specific location?

Exercises

1. Create a form with a text box and a combo box. Add a button that, when clicked, adds the contents of the text box to the combo box.
2. Create a form with two list boxes. Add a number of items to one list box at design time using the Properties window. Create a button that, when clicked, removes the selected item in the first list and adds it to the second list.

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