Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft® Visual C#™ .NET in 24 Hours

Hour 14. Looping for Efficiency

As you develop your Visual C# .NET programs, you'll encounter situations in which you'll need to execute the same code statement or statements repeatedly. Often, you'll need to execute these statements a specific number of times, but you may need to execute them as long as a certain condition persists (an expression is true) or until a condition occurs (an expression becomes true). Visual C# .NET includes constructs that enable you to easily define and execute these repetitive code routines: loops. This hour shows you how to use the two major looping constructs to make your code smaller, faster, and more efficient.

The highlights of this hour include the following:

• Looping a specific number of times using for ...