Beginning Visual C# 2005 Express Edition

Peter Wright978-1-59059-549-7, 1-59059-549-1

In the 90s, Microsoft did the impossible and released a programming tool that let everyone write programs to run on Windows. I was so excited about that tool, Visual Basic, that I wrote a series of books on it and introduced nearly a quarter of a million people all over the world to programming.Now Microsoft has done it again with the release of the Express tools. With nearly every home now having a computer and most people having access to the Internet, being able to take control of the computer and write your own programs is more useful and exciting than ever. So I decided to do it again.In this book you’ll find everything you need to program your computer by using Visual C# 2005 Express, one of the very latest programming tools from Microsoft. I’ve even included Visual C# 2005 Express on the CD in the book, so this is a one-stop shop to get up to speed fast. If you have never written computer programs before, I’ll show you how much fun and how easy it can be. Perhaps you are a programmer and just need to get up to speed on .NET for work – this book is for you too.I took the same approach with this book that I did with the VB ones, and inside you’ll find a fast-paced guide to the essentials to get you programming fast. You’ll learn the C# language and the tools Visual C# 2005 Express provides. I cover everything from simple console programs to code that talks to the Internet, and even how to write your own database programs. Whatever your reasons for wanting to learn to program with C#, my book will get you where you want to be quickly, and hopefully with a smile on your face. So dive in and change the way you use computers forever.

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Table of contents :
Beginning Visual C# 2005 Express Edition: From Novice to Professional……Page 1
Contents……Page 6
CHAPTER 1 Welcome to C# Express……Page 20
CHAPTER 2 The Basics of C#……Page 50
CHAPTER 3 Working with Variables……Page 76
CHAPTER 4 Classes and Object Orientation in C#……Page 102
CHAPTER 5 More-Advanced Object Orientation……Page 132
CHAPTER 6 Handling Exceptions……Page 158
CHAPTER 7 How C# Express Helps You Code……Page 168
CHAPTER 8 Building Windows Applications……Page 190
CHAPTER 9 Windows and Dialogs……Page 222
CHAPTER 10 Lists……Page 254
CHAPTER 11 Menus and Toolbars……Page 282
CHAPTER 12 Delegates—Events Internals……Page 302
CHAPTER 13 Lists and Generics……Page 314
CHAPTER 14 Files and Streams……Page 338
CHAPTER 15 Working with XML……Page 358
CHAPTER 16 Database Programming…….Page 384
CHAPTER 17 The Internet and C# Express……Page 416
CHAPTER 18 Threading……Page 446
CHAPTER 19 Where to Now?……Page 460
INDEX……Page 468