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
    • Creating Timers
    • Creating Tabbed Dialog Boxes
    • Storing Pictures in an Image List
    • Building Enhanced Lists Using the List View
    • Creating Hierarchical Lists with the Tree View
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Workshop
  • 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. What increment of time is applied to the Interval property of the Timer control?
2. What collection is used to add new tabs to a Tab control?
3. What property returns the index of the currently selected tab?
4. True or False: You should use different Image List controls for storing images of different sizes.
5. To see columns in a List View control, the View property must be set to what?
6. The additional columns of data that can be attached to an item in a list view are stored in what collection?
7. What property of what object would you use to determine how many items are in a List View?
8. Each item in a Tree View is called a what?
9. How do you make a node the child of another node?

Exercises

1. Add a second Image List to your project with the List View. Place an icon (32x32 pixels) in this Image List and link the Image List to the LargeImageList property of the List View control. Change the View to Large Icons. Does the icon appear next to a list item? If not, is there a property of an item you can set so that it does?
2. Create a new project and add a List View, a button, and a text box to the default form. When the button is clicked, create a new item in the List View using the text entered into the text box.

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