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
  • Hour 9. Adding Menus and Toolbars to Forms
    • Building Menus
    • Programming Menus
    • Using the Toolbar Control
    • Creating a Status Bar
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Workshop
  • 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: Form menu bars are created using the Context Menu control.
2. To create an accelerator or hotkey, preface the character with a(n):
3. If you've designed a menu using a Main Menu control, but that menu isn't visible on the form designer, how do you make it appear?
4. To place a check mark next to a menu item, you set what property of the item?
5. How do you add code to a menu item?
6. Toolbar items are part of what collection?
7. To create a separator on a toolbar, you create a new button and set what property?
8. True or False: Every button on a toolbar has its own Click event.
9. What must you do to have panels appear on a status bar?

Exercises

1. Modify the code you created for the toolbar that closes the form to take into consideration the checked status of the Ask Before Closing menu item.
2. Implement a toggle button that works just like the Ask Before Closing menu item.

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