C# 3.0: A Beginner's Guide

by Schildt, Herbert

• ISBN13: 9780071588300
• ISBN10: 0071588302
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-01
• Publisher: McGraw Hill

Summary

Essential Skills--Made Easy!Let master programmer and bestselling author Herb Schildt teach you the fundamentals of C#, Microsoft's premier programming language for the .NET Framework. You'll begin by learning to create, compile, and run a C# program. Then it's on to data types, operators, control statements, methods, classes, and objects. You'll also learn about inheritance, interfaces, properties, indexers, exceptions, events, namespaces, generics, and much more. Of course, new C# 3.0 features, such as LINQ, lambda expressions, and anonymous types, are included. Start programming in C# 3.0 today with help from this fast-paced, hands-on tutorial.Designed for Easy Learning: Key Skills & Concepts--Lists of specific skills covered in the chapter Ask the Expert--Q&A sections filled with bonus information and helpful tips Try This--Hands-on exercises that show how to apply your skills Notes--Extra information related to the topic being covered Self-Tests--Chapter-ending quizzes to test your knowledge Annotated Syntax--Example code with commentary that describes the programming techniques being illustrated

Author Biography

Herbert Schildt is a leading authority on C#, C, C++, and Java. His programming books have sold more than 3.5 million copies worldwide and have been translated into all major foreign languages. Herb is the author of numerous bestsellers, including C# 3.0: The Complete Reference, C++: The Complete Reference, and Java: The Complete Reference.

Table of Contents

C#: Fundamentals

Introducing Data Types and Operators

Program Control Statements

Introducing Classes, Objects, and Methods

More Data Types and Operators

A Closer Look at Methods and Classes

Operator Overloading, Indexers, and Properties

Inheritance

Interfaces, Structures, and Enumerations

Exception Handling

Using I/O

Delegates, Events, and Namespaces

Generics

Lambda Expressions, LINQ, and Other Advanced Topics

The Preprocessor, RTTI, Nullable Types, and other Advanced Topics

Answers to Mastery Checks

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