C# 7.0 All–in–One For Dummies

6 Books in one!

Sharpen your knowledge of C#

C# know–how is a must if you want to be a professional developer and especially if you plan to work on Microsoft products. No matter where your skills lie, this book offers a deep dive into C# for coders who need an overview of the nuances of this valuable programming language. Pop it open to get an intro into coding with C#, how to design secure apps and databases, and even pointers on building web apps with C#.

Inside

Introduction. 1

Book 1: The Basics of C# Programming. 5

CHAPTER 1: Creating Your First C# Console Application. 7

CHAPTER 2: Living with Variability Declaring Value–Type Variables. 23

CHAPTER 3: Pulling Strings. 45

CHAPTER 4: Smooth Operators. 75

CHAPTER 5: Getting into the Program Flow. 89

CHAPTER 6: Lining Up Your Ducks with Collections. 119

CHAPTER 7: Stepping through Collections. 149

CHAPTER 8: Buying Generic. 177

CHAPTER 9: Some Exceptional Exceptions. 201

CHAPTER 10: Creating Lists of Items with Enumerations . 223

Book 2: Object–Oriented C# Programming 233

CHAPTER 1: Object–Oriented Programming What s It All About? 235

CHAPTER 2: Showing Some Class. 243

CHAPTER 3: We Have Our Methods. 257

CHAPTER 4: Let Me Say This about this. 283

CHAPTER 5: Holding a Class Responsible. 301

CHAPTER 6: Inheritance: Is That All I Get? 329

CHAPTER 7: Poly–what–ism? 357

CHAPTER 8: Interfacing with the Interface. 385

CHAPTER 9: Delegating Those Important Events. 411

CHAPTER 10: Can I Use Your Namespace in the Library? 435

CHAPTER 11: Improving Productivity with Named and Optional Parameters. 459

CHAPTER 12: Interacting with Structures. 469

Book 3: Designing for C#. 483

CHAPTER 1: Writing Secure Code. 485

CHAPTER 2: Accessing Data. 499

CHAPTER 3: Fishing the File Stream. 521

CHAPTER 4: Accessing the Internet. 543

CHAPTER 5: Creating Images. 559

CHAPTER 6: Programming Dynamically!  571

Book 4: A Tour of Visual Studio. 583

CHAPTER 1: Getting Started with Visual Studio. 585

CHAPTER 2: Using the Interface. 597

CHAPTER 3: Customizing Visual Studio. 623

Book 5: Windows Development with WPF. 641

CHAPTER 1: Introducing WPF. 643

CHAPTER 2: Understanding the Basics of WPF. 653

CHAPTER 3: Data Binding in WPF. 681

CHAPTER 4: Practical WPF. 705

Book 6: Web Development with ASP.NET. 721

CHAPTER 1: Looking at How ASP.NET Works with C#. 723

CHAPTER 2: Building Web Applications. 735

CHAPTER 3: Controlling Your Development Experience. 753

CHAPTER 4: Leveraging the .NET Framework. 783

Index 801

John Paul Mueller is a writer on programming topics like AWS, Python, Java, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. William Sempf is a programmer and .NET evangelist. Chuck Sphar was a full–time senior technical writer for the Visual C++ product group at Microsoft.