A Programmer's Guide to .NET

Table of contents

1. Copyright
2. About the author
3. Introduction
4. .NET platform overview
   1. Development tools
   2. .NET languages
   3. .NET Enterprise servers
   4. The .NET Framework
   5. Installing the Microsoft .NET Framework
   6. Conclusion
5. Common Language Runtime
   1. Components of the Common Language Runtime (CLR)
   2. Managed code
   3. Conclusion
6. The .NET Framework class library – types and structures
   1. Console class and applications
   2. System namespace
   3. Object class
   4. Type class and Reflection namespace
   5. Types
   6. Conversions with the System.Convert class
   7. Reference types
   8. Arrays
   9. Collections
   10. Strings
   11. System.Text namespace
   12. Formatting
   13. Conclusion
7. More on the .NET Framework class library – streams, the file system, and networking
   1. System.IO namespace – streams and file system access
   2. Working with the file system
   3. Environment.SpecialFolder enumeration
   4. The System.Net namespace – internet programming under .NET
   5. Helper classes
   6. Conclusion
8. The Microsoft .NET Framework class library – more goodies
   1. System.Math class
   2. System.Random class
   3. Date and time support
   4. Formatting date and time values
   5. Access to the environment
   6. Conclusion
9. ASP.NET and web forms
   1. How ASP.NET works
   2. System.Web namespace
   3. ASP.NET applications
   4. ASP applications configuration files
   5. Web forms pages
   6. Control class
   7. Page class
   8. Practice
   9. Web forms’ internals
   10. Conclusion
10. ASP.NET server controls
    1. Types of server controls
    2. Server controls
    3. HTML server controls
    4. Web server controls
    5. Validation controls
    6. Validation controls and page validation
    7. Conclusion
11. Windows forms
    1. Windows forms – an introduction
    2. System.Windows.Forms namespace
    3. Windows forms and events
    4. Dialog boxes
    5. Message boxes
    6. Creating MDI windows applications
    7. Conclusion
12. Windows forms controls
    1. Windows controls
    2. Buttons
    3. Text controls
    4. Labels
    5. List controls
    6. Menus
    7. Conclusion
13. Additional Windows forms controls
    1. Additional controls
    2. Toolbars
    3. Common dialog boxes
    4. Using ActiveX controls
    5. Conclusion
14. Graphical functions and GDI+
    1. The graphics device interface
    2. The graphics device interface plus (GDI+)
    3. Graphics in Microsoft .NET
    4. System.Drawing namespace
    5. System.Drawing.Drawing2D namespace
    6. System.Drawing.Imaging namespace
    7. Practice
    8. System.Drawing.Text namespace
    9. Printing
    10. Graphics in ASP.NET applications
    11. Conclusion
15. Working with data – ADO.NET
    1. ADO.NET and its namespaces
    2. Managed providers
    3. Connections
    4. Commands
    5. DataReader class
    6. DataAdapter class
    7. Tables, rows, and columns
    8. Using transactions
    9. Processing errors
    10. Conclusion
16. Using data binding controls
    1. Working with data in web forms applications
    2. Working with data in Windows forms applications
    3. Conclusion
17. Working with XML
    1. System.Xml namespace
    2. Conclusion
18. Building and consuming web services
    1. Web service protocols
    2. Service description language
    3. Discovery
    4. System.Web.Services namespace
    5. Creating a web service
    6. Consuming a web service
    7. Microsoft .NET My Services
    8. Conclusion
19. Appendix: Selected .NET web resources