Microsoft Visual C# 2013 Step by Step

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Your hands-on guide to Visual C# fundamentals

Expand your expertise—and teach yourself the fundamentals of Microsoft Visual C# 2013. If you have previous programming experience but are new to Visual C# 2013, this tutorial delivers the step-by-step guidance and coding exercises you need to master core topics and techniques.

Discover how to:

• Create and debug C# applications in Visual Studio 2013
• Work with variables, identifiers, statements, operators, and methods
• Create interfaces and define abstract classes
• Write robust code that can catch and handle exceptions
• Display and edit data using data binding with Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework
• Respond to user input and touchscreen gestures
• Handle events arising from multiple sources
• Develop your first Windows 8.1 apps

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Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Introducing Microsoft Visual C# and Microsoft Visual Studio 2013
  • Chapter 1: Welcome to C#
  • Chapter 2: Working with variables, operators, and expressions
  • Chapter 3: Writing methods and applying scope
  • Chapter 4: Using decision statements
  • Chapter 5: Using compound assignment and iteration statements
  • Chapter 6: Managing errors and exceptions
• Understanding the C# object model
  • Chapter 7: Creating and managing classes and objects
  • Chapter 8: Understanding values and references
  • Chapter 9: Creating value types with enumerations and structures
  • Chapter 10: Using arrays
  • Chapter 11: Understanding parameter arrays
  • Chapter 12: Working with inheritance
  • Chapter 13: Creating interfaces and defining abstract classes
  • Chapter 14: Using garbage collection and resource management
• Defining extensible types with C#
  • Chapter 15: Implementing properties to access fields
  • Chapter 16: Using indexers
  • Chapter 17: Introducing generics
  • Chapter 18: Using collections
  • Chapter 19: Enumerating collections
  • Chapter 20: Decoupling application logic and handling events
  • Chapter 21: Querying in-memory data by using query expressions
  • Chapter 22: Operator overloading
• Building professional Windows 8.1 applications with C#
  • Chapter 23: Improving throughput by using tasks
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