C# 5.0 All–in–One For Dummies

7 books in 1 C# Programming Basics Object-Oriented C# Programming Designing for C# A Tour of Visual Studio® Windows Development with WPF Web Development with ASP.NET Service-Oriented Development C# developers, here's your one-stop guide to using this powerful programming language! C# has grown up. It's a powerful language and fun to use, and this book takes you beyond the basics with discussions of Visual Studio, Windows Presentation Foundation, service-oriented development, web development, and a lot more. You'll go beyond just learning the language to discover all the things you can do with C#. Ready? Let's get started! For the newcomer — if you've never programmed in C#, learn all the essentials in the first two minibooks Delve into design — discover the key elements of databases, files, and graphics and how to design for security Valuable Visual Studio — explore the use, optimization, and customization of this popular tool for building graphical user interfaces Look ahead — learn about Windows Presentation Foundation, widely expected to be the Windows development tool of tomorrow A range of services — gain information on various web services such as ASP.NET, WCF, and REST Open the book and find: Steps for creating a C# program New capabilities of C# 5.0 An introduction to object-oriented programming Important advice on writing secure code Alternatives to using Visual Studio Why Windows Presentation Foundation is the wave of the future ASP.NET application creation and form control Different tools for web services

Introduction 1 Book I: The Basics of C# Programming 9 Chapter 1: Creating Your First C# Console Application 11 Chapter 2: Living with Variability — Declaring Value–Type Variables 25 Chapter 3: Pulling Strings 45 Chapter 4: Smooth Operators 71 Chapter 5: Getting into the Program Flow 83 Chapter 6: Lining Up Your Ducks with Collections 107 Chapter 7: Stepping through Collections 133 Chapter 8: Buying Generic 159 Chapter 9: Some Exceptional Exceptions 181 Book II: Object–Oriented C# Programming 201 Chapter 1: Object–Oriented Programming — What’s It All About? 203 Chapter 2: Showing Some Class 211 Chapter 3: We Have Our Methods 223 Chapter 4: Let Me Say This about this 243 Chapter 5: Holding a Class Responsible 257 Chapter 6: Inheritance: Is That All I Get? 281 Chapter 7: Poly–what–ism? 303 Chapter 8: Interfacing with the Interface 329 Chapter 9: Delegating Those Important Events 353 Chapter 10: Can I Use Your Namespace in the Library? 373 Chapter 11: Improving Productivity with Named and Optional Parameters 395 Book III: Designing for C# 403 Chapter 1: Writing Secure Code 405 Chapter 2: Accessing Data 417 Chapter 3: Fishing the FileStream 437 Chapter 4: Accessing the Internet 457 Chapter 5: Creating Images 471 Chapter 6: Programming Dynamically! 481 Chapter 7: Helping Out with Interop 493 Book IV: A Tour of Visual Studio 499 Chapter 1: Getting Started with Visual Studio 501 Chapter 2: Using the Interface 517 Chapter 3: Customizing Visual Studio 541 Chapter 4: Transforming Text Templates 557 Book V: Windows Development with WPF 565 Chapter 1: Introducing WPF 567 Chapter 2: Understanding the Basics of WPF 577 Chapter 3: Data Binding in WPF 601 Chapter 4: Practical WPF 623 Book VI: Web Development with ASPNET 649 Chapter 1: Looking at How ASPNET Works with C# 651 Chapter 2: Building Web Applications 663 Chapter 3: Controlling Your Development Experience 677 Chapter 4: Leveraging the NET Framework 705 Chapter 5: Digging into Web Construction 723 Book VII: Service–Oriented Development 737 Chapter 1: Getting Acquainted with Web Services 739 Chapter 2: Building Web Services with ASMX 751 Chapter 3: Building Web Services with WCF 765 Chapter 4: Building Web Services with REST 779 Index 787

Bill Sempf is a veteran programmer specializing in object–oriented programming. He is the author of Visual Basic 2005 For Dummies . Chuck Sphar was senior technical writer for the Visual C++ product group at Microsoft. Stephen Randy Davis is the author of C++ For Dummies and works for L–3 Communications.