Book description
Your hands-on guide to Visual C# fundamentals
Expand your expertise—and teach yourself the fundamentals of Microsoft Visual C# 2013. If you have previous programming experience but are new to Visual C# 2013, this tutorial delivers the step-by-step guidance and coding exercises you need to master core topics and techniques.
Discover how to:
Create and debug C# applications in Visual Studio 2013
Work with variables, identifiers, statements, operators, and methods
Create interfaces and define abstract classes
Write robust code that can catch and handle exceptions
Display and edit data using data binding with Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework
Respond to user input and touchscreen gestures
Handle events arising from multiple sources
Develop your first Windows 8.1 apps
Table of contents
- Introduction
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I. Introducing Microsoft Visual C# and Microsoft Visual Studio 2013
- 1. Welcome to C#
- 2. Working with variables, operators, and expressions
- 3. Writing methods and applying scope
- 4. Using decision statements
- 5. Using compound assignment and iteration statements
- 6. Managing errors and exceptions
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II. Understanding the C# object model
- 7. Creating and managing classes and objects
- 8. Understanding values and references
- 9. Creating value types with enumerations and structures
- 10. Using arrays
- 11. Understanding parameter arrays
- 12. Working with inheritance
- 13. Creating interfaces and defining abstract classes
- 14. Using garbage collection and resource management
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III. Defining extensible types with C#
- 15. Implementing properties to access fields
- 16. Using indexers
- 17. Introducing generics
- 18. Using collections
- 19. Enumerating collections
- 20. Decoupling application logic and handling events
- 21. Querying in-memory data by using query expressions
- 22. Operator overloading
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IV. Building professional Windows 8.1 applications with C#
- 23. Improving throughput by using tasks
- 24. Improving response time by performing asynchronous operations
- 25. Implementing the user interface for a Windows Store app
- 26. Displaying and searching for data in a Windows Store app
- 27. Accessing a remote database from a Windows Store app
- A. About the author
- Index
- About the Author
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Microsoft Visual C# 2013 Step by Step
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2013
- Publisher(s): Microsoft Press
- ISBN: 9780735684959
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