C#: Your Visual Blueprint for Building .Net Applications

Eric Butow, Thomas Ryan, maranGraphics9780764536014, 076453601X

Welcome to the only guidebook series that takes a visual approach to professional-level computer topics. Open the book and you’ll discover step-by-step screen shots that demonstrate over 100 key C# programming tasks, including: Employing class inheritance Including event-handling methods Authoring a component Working with strings Declaring abstract properties Adding Web forms and controls Adding multidimensional arrays Processing XML comments Creating workgroup-enabled applications Managing the integrated debugger Extra Apply It “Apply It” and “Extra” sidebars highlight useful tips High-resolution screen shots demonstrate each task Succinct explanations walk you through step by step Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules .NET development tools on CD-ROM! TextPad and Antechinus C# Editor shareware Trial versions of VMWare Workstation and MineC#sweeper Plus all sample code and an e-version of the book System requirements: PC running Windows 98 or later. See the “What’s on the CD-ROM” appendix for details and complete system requirements.

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Table of contents :
C# Your visual blueprint for building .NET applications by Eric Butow an¿,ö³4£ 1z%……Page 1
Front of Book Information……Page 3
maranGraphics……Page 4
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS……Page 5
AUTHORS’ ACKNOWLEDGMENTS……Page 6
TABLE OF CONTENTS……Page 8
HOW TO USE THIS BOOK……Page 14
INTRODUCTION TO C#……Page 16
START VISUAL STUDIO .NET……Page 18
OPEN A NEW C# PROJECT……Page 20
VIEW . NET FRAMEWORK ONLINE RESOURCES……Page 22
OPEN A C# WEB PROJECT……Page 24
SET JSCRIPT .NET AS THE DEFAULT SCRIPT LANGUAGE……Page 26
EXPLORE THE CLASS VIEW WINDOW……Page 28
VIEW THE CONTENTS WINDOW……Page 30
GET HELP USING THE INDEX WINDOW……Page 32
SEARCH FOR HELP……Page 34
ADD COMPONENTS FROM THE TOOLBOX……Page 36
ADD A TASK TO THE TASK LIST……Page 38
CHANGE FORM PROPERTIES IN THE PROPERTIES WINDOW……Page 40
ADD A CUSTOM TOOLBAR……Page 42
DELETE A TOOLBAR……Page 44
CHANGE THE VISUAL STUDIO ENVIRONMENT……Page 46
MANAGE OPEN WINDOWS……Page 48
OPEN A PROJECT……Page 50
VIEW THE MAIN METHOD……Page 52
COMBINE PROGRAM TYPES……Page 54
ADD REFERENCE TYPES……Page 56
ADD OPERATORS……Page 58
INSERT ATTRIBUTES……Page 60
ENTER CLASSES……Page 64
ADD COMMENTS TO CODE……Page 68
WRITE YOUR FIRST PROGRAM……Page 70
ENTER XML DOCUMENTATION……Page 72
ACCESS DOCUMENTATION……Page 74
LOG A BUG REPORT……Page 76
VIEW INFORMATION ABOUT C# BUILDING BLOCKS……Page 78
PROGRAM CLASSES……Page 80
ADD A CLASS……Page 82
EMPLOY CLASS INHERITANCE……Page 86
PROGRAM INSTANCE CONSTRUCTORS……Page 88
INSERT DESTRUCTORS……Page 92
PROGRAM STRUCTS……Page 94
DISPLAY HEAP AND STACK INFORMATION……Page 98
FIND TYPE INFORMATION……Page 100
PROGRAM CONSTANT EXPRESSIONS……Page 102
SPECIFY VALUE TYPES……Page 104
PROGRAM NUMERIC TYPES……Page 106
PROGRAM THE BOOLEAN TYPE……Page 110
DECLARE REFERENCE TYPES……Page 112
ENTER REFERENCE TYPE DECLARATIONS……Page 114
CONVERT VALUE TYPES TO REFERENCE TYPES……Page 118
PROGRAM POINTER TYPES……Page 120
INSERT THE VOID TYPE……Page 122
ADD INTERFACE PROPERTIES……Page 124
ADD AN INTERFACE INDEX……Page 126
VIEW INFORMATION ABOUT METHODS……Page 130
ADD A METHOD……Page 132
ADD STATIC METHODS……Page 136
INCLUDE NON-STATIC METHODS……Page 140
ENTER DELEGATES……Page 144
PROGRAM EVENTS……Page 146
ADD AN EVENT-HANDLING METHOD……Page 148
VIEW INFORMATION ABOUT ARRAYS……Page 150
ENTER SINGLE-DIMENSIONAL ARRAYS……Page 152
ADD MULTIDIMENSIONAL ARRAYS……Page 154
PROGRAM ARRAY-OF-ARRAYS……Page 156
ITERATE THROUGH ARRAY ELEMENTS……Page 158
SORT ARRAYS……Page 160
SEARCH ARRAYS……Page 162
IMPLEMENT A COLLECTIONS CLASS……Page 164
PROGRAM STRUCTS……Page 166
ADD AN INDEXER……Page 168
INCLUDE ENUMERATIONS……Page 170
CREATE STRING LITERALS AND VARIABLES……Page 172
ASSIGN VALUES TO STRINGS……Page 174
CONCATENATE STRINGS……Page 176
COMPARE STRINGS……Page 178
SEARCH FOR SUBSTRINGS……Page 180
REPLACE CHARACTERS……Page 182
EXTRACT SUBSTRINGS……Page 184
CHANGE THE CHARACTER CASE……Page 186
TRIM SPACES……Page 188
REMOVE CHARACTERS……Page 190
SPLIT A STRING……Page 192
JOIN STRINGS……Page 194
PAD STRINGS……Page 196
VIEW INFORMATION ABOUT PROPERTIES……Page 198
COMPARE PROPERTIES AND INDEXERS……Page 200
PROGRAM PROPERTY ACCESSORS……Page 202
DECLARE ABSTRACT PROPERTIES……Page 206
INCLUDE PROPERTIES ON INTERFACES……Page 208
VIEW INFORMATION ABOUT WINDOWS FORMS……Page 210
ADD A WINDOWS FORM IN THE WINDOWS FORM DESIGNER……Page 212
SET THE FORM TYPE……Page 214
CHOOSE THE STARTUP WINDOWS FORM……Page 216
CREATE A MODAL FORM……Page 218
LAYOUT A FORM……Page 220
SET A FORM LOCATION……Page 224
CHANGE FORM PROPERTIES……Page 226
CREATE A TRANSPARENT FORM……Page 228
AN INTRODUCTION TO WEB FORMS AND CONTROLS……Page 230
CREATE AN ASP.NET WEB SITE……Page 232
CREATE A WEB FORM……Page 234
ADD SERVER CONTROLS TO A WEB FORM……Page 236
RESPOND TO AN EVENT IN SERVER- SIDE CONTROLS……Page 238
READ AND CHANGE PROPERTIES FROM OBJECTS ON A WEB FORM……Page 240
USING SERVER-SIDE COMPONENTS ON WEB FORMS……Page 242
INTRODUCING DATA ACCESS WITH ADO.NET……Page 244
DISPLAY DATA WITH THE DATAGRID CONTROL……Page 246
CONFIGURE THE DATAGRID CONTROL……Page 248
INSERT DATA INTO A SQL DATABASE……Page 250
UPDATE DATA FROM A SQL DATABASE……Page 252
DELETE DATA FROM A SQL DATABASE……Page 254
EXECUTE A STORED PROCEDURE IN A SQL DATABASE……Page 256
READ XML FROM A FILE……Page 258
SAVE XML TO A FILE……Page 260
QUERY XML WITH XPATH……Page 262
APPLY XSL TO XML……Page 264
INTRODUCTION TO DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS……Page 266
CREATE AN APPLICATION WITH PRIVATE ASSEMBLIES……Page 268
CREATE AN APPLICATION WITH SHARED ASSEMBLIES……Page 274
VERSION A SHARED ASSEMBLY……Page 280
CONFIGURE A CLIENT FOR A VERSIONED ASSEMBLY……Page 282
CREATE A WEB SERVICE……Page 284
USING A WEB SERVICE……Page 286
INTRODUCTION TO EXCEPTION HANDLING……Page 288
THROWING AN EXCEPTION……Page 290
EXECUTING CODE USING THE TRY/ CATCH BLOCKS……Page 292
HANDLING EXCEPTIONS WITH THE CATCH BLOCK……Page 294
USING THE FINALLY BLOCK……Page 296
WRITE ERRORS TO THE APPLICATION LOG……Page 298
BASIC EXAMPLES……Page 300
WHAT’S ON THE CD-ROM……Page 304
USING THE E-VERSION OF THIS BOOK……Page 306
HUNGRY MINDS, INC…….Page 308
A – B……Page 310
C……Page 311
D – E……Page 312
F – H……Page 313
I – M……Page 314
N – O……Page 315
P – S……Page 316
T – V……Page 318
W – Z……Page 319