C# 2008 For Dummies

Companion Web site has sample code and extra stuff

Create console apps, discover delegates and events, and explore interfaces

C# is a powerful programming language that has become a favorite tool of Visual Studio programmers, and this friendly guide will get you up to speed on the newest version painlessly. Before you know it you′ll be creating applications for Vista, using LINQ to simplify database code, knowing what to do with HashSets, and more.

Discover how to:

Create a console application template

Work with loops and if statements

Understand collection syntax

Use interfaces and object–oriented concepts

Apply delegates and events

Introduction.

Part I: Getting Started with C#.

Chapter 1: Creating Your First C# Console Application.

Part II: Basic C# Programming.

Chapter 2: Living with Variability Declaring Value–Type Variables.

Chapter 3: Smooth Operators.

Chapter 4: Getting into the Program Flow.

Chapter 5: Lining Up Your Ducks with Collections.

Chapter 6: Pulling Strings.

Part III: Using Objects.

Chapter 7: Showing Some Class.

Chapter 8: We Have Our Methods.

Chapter 9: Let Me Say This about this.

Chapter 10: Object–Oriented Programming What s It All About?

Part IV: Object–Oriented Programming.

Chapter 11: Holding a Class Responsible.

Chapter 12: Inheritance Is That All I Get?

Chapter 13: Poly–what–ism?

Chapter 14: Interfacing with the Interface.

Part V: Now Showing in C# 3.0.

Chapter 15: Delegating Those Important Events.

Chapter 16: Mary Had a Little Lambda Expression.

Chapter 17: LINQing Up with Query Expressions.

Part VI: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 18: Ten Common Build Errors (And How to Fix Them).

Index.

Stephen R. Davis, who goes by the name of Randy, lives with his wife and son near Dallas, Texas. He and his family have written numerous books, including C++ For Dummies and C++ Weekend Crash Course. Stephen works for L–3 Communications.

Chuck Sphar escaped Microsoft s C++ documentation camps in 1997, after six years hard labor as a senior technical writer. He s perpetrated three previous tomes, one on object–oriented programming for the Mac, one on Microsoft s MFC class library, and C# 2005 For Dummies, a revision of Randy s original edition. He s currently finishing a novel about ancient Rome (against rome.com) and gobbling great mouthfuls of .NET programming. Chuck can be reached for praise and minor nits at chuck@csharp102.info.