C# For Experienced Programmers

by Deitel, Harvey M.; Deitel, Paul J.; Listfield, Jeffrey A.; Nieto, Tem R.; Yaeger, Cheryl H.; Zlatkina, Marina

• ISBN13: 9780130461339
• ISBN10: 0130461334
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall Ptr

Summary

Presents important C# concepts in the context of fully tested programs, complete with syntax shading, detailed line by line descriptions and program outputs. Includes 402 programming tips that help you build applications that are portable, reusable and optimized for performance. Softcover.

Author Biography

Dr. Harvey M. Deitel and Paul J. Deitel are the founders of Deitel & Associates, Inc.

Table of Contents

Preface	xxxix
Introduction to .NET and C#	1	(1)
Introduction	2	(1)
History of the Internet and World Wide Web	2	(2)
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)	4	(1)
Extensible Markup Language (XML)	4	(1)
Key Software Trend: Object Technology	5	(2)
Introduction to Microsoft .NET	7	(2)
C#	9	(1)
.NET Framework and the Common Language Runtime	9	(1)
Tour of the Book	10	(9)
Summary	19	(2)
Internet and World Wide Web Resources	21	(1)
Introduction to the Visual Studio .NET IDE and C# Programming	22	(38)
Introduction	23	(1)
Visual Studio .NET Integrated Development Environment (IDE) Overview	24	(3)
Menu Bar and Toolbar	27	(2)
Visual Studio .NET Windows	29	(4)
Solution Explorer	29	(1)
Toolbox	30	(1)
Properties Window	31	(2)
Using Help	33	(1)
Simple Program: Displaying Text and an Image	34	(9)
Simple Program: Printing a Line of Text	43	(9)
Arithmetic	52	(1)
Decision Making: Equality and Relational Operators	53	(5)
Summary	58	(2)
Control Structures	60	(37)
Introduction	61	(1)
Control Structures	61	(2)
if Selection Structure	63	(1)
if/else Selection Structure	63	(1)
while Repetition Structure	64	(3)
Assignment Operators	67	(1)
Increment and Decrement Operators	67	(2)
for Repetition Structure	69	(2)
Example: Using the for Structure to Compute Compound Interest	71	(5)
switch Multiple-Selection Structure	76	(4)
do/while Repetition Structure	80	(1)
Statements break and continue	81	(3)
Logical and Conditional Operators	84	(4)
Introduction to Windows Application Programming	88	(7)
Summary	95	(2)
Methods and Arrays	97	(40)
Introduction	98	(1)
Methods in C#	99	(1)
Method Definitions	99	(7)
Argument Promotion	106	(2)
C# Namespaces	108	(1)
Value Types and Reference Types	109	(1)
Passing Arguments: Pass-by-Value vs. Pass-by-Reference	110	(4)
Scope Rules	114	(3)
Recursion	117	(2)
Method Overloading	119	(3)
Arrays	122	(1)
Declaring and Allocating Arrays	123	(3)
Passing Arrays to Methods	126	(1)
Passing Arrays by Value and by Reference	126	(4)
Multiple-Subscripted Arrays	130	(5)
foreach Repetition Structure	135	(1)
Summary	136	(1)
Object-Based Programming	137	(55)
Introduction	138	(1)
Implementing a Time Abstract Data Type with a Class	139	(8)
Class Scope	147	(1)
Controlling Access to Members	147	(2)
Initializing Class Objects: Constructors	149	(1)
Using Overloaded Constructors	150	(4)
Properties	154	(7)
Composition: Objects References as Instance Variables of Other Classes	161	(4)
Using the this Reference	165	(2)
Garbage Collection	167	(1)
static Class Members	168	(5)
const and readonly Members	173	(2)
Indexers	175	(6)
Data Abstraction and Information Hiding	181	(2)
Software Reusability	183	(1)
Namespaces and Assemblies	183	(6)
Class View and Object Browser	189	(2)
Summary	191	(1)
Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance	192	(37)
Introduction	193	(1)
Base Classes and Derived Classes	194	(3)
protected and internal Members	197	(1)
Relationship between Base Classes and Derived Classes	197	(21)
Case Study: Three-Level Inheritance Hierarchy	218	(3)
Constructors and Destructors in Derived Classes	221	(6)
Software Engineering with Inheritance	227	(1)
Summary	228	(1)
Object-Oriented Programming: Polymorphism	229	(55)
Introduction	230	(1)
Derived-Class-Object to Base-Class-Object Conversion	230	(7)
Type Fields and switch Statements	237	(1)
Polymorphism Examples	238	(1)
Abstract Classes and Methods	239	(2)
Example: Inheriting Interface and Implementation	241	(8)
sealed Classes and Methods	249	(1)
Example: Payroll System Using Polymorphism	250	(10)
Example: Creating and Using Interfaces	260	(12)
Delegates	272	(5)
Operator Overloading	277	(5)
Summary	282	(2)
Exception Handling	284	(32)
Introduction	285	(1)
Exception Handling Overview	286	(3)
Example: DivideByZeroException	289	(5)
NET Exception Hierarchy	294	(1)
finally Block	295	(8)
Exception Properties	303	(5)
Programmer-Defined Exception Classes	308	(4)
Handling Overflows with Operators checked and unchecked	312	(2)
Summary	314	(2)
Graphical User interface Concepts: Part 1	316	(42)
Introduction	317	(1)
Windows Forms	318	(3)
Event-Handling Model	321	(5)
Basic Event Handling	322	(4)
Control Properties and Layout	326	(4)
Labels, TextBoxes and Buttons	330	(7)
GroupBoxes and Panels	337	(3)
CheckBoxes and RadioButtons	340	(9)
PictureBoxes	349	(2)
Mouse Event Handling	351	(2)
Keyboard Event Handling	353	(4)
Summary	357	(1)
Graphical User interface Concepts: Part 2	358	(65)
Introduction	359	(1)
Menus	359	(9)
LinkLabels	368	(4)
ListBoxes and CheckedListBoxes	372	(8)
ListBoxes	375	(2)
CheckedListBoxes	377	(3)
ComboBoxes	380	(5)
TreeViews	385	(6)
ListViews	391	(7)
Tab Control	398	(5)
Multiple-Document-Interface (MDI) Windows	403	(9)
Visual Inheritance	412	(4)
User-Defined Controls	416	(5)
Summary	421	(2)
Multithreading	423	(39)
Introduction	424	(1)
Thread States: Life Cycle of a Thread	425	(2)
Thread Priorities and Thread Scheduling	427	(5)
Thread Synchronization and Class Monitor	432	(2)
Producer/Consumer Relationship without Thread Synchronization	434	(6)
Producer/Consumer Relationship with Thread Synchronization	440	(9)
Producer/Consumer Relationship: Circular Buffer	449	(11)
Summary	460	(2)
Strings, Characters and Regular Expressions	462	(48)
Introduction	463	(1)
Fundamentals of Characters and Strings	463	(2)
string Constructors	465	(1)
String Indexer, Length Property and CopyTo Method	466	(2)
Comparing Strings	468	(4)
String Method GetHashCode	472	(1)
Locating Characters and Substrings in Strings	473	(3)
Extracting Substrings from Strings	476	(1)
Concatenating Strings	477	(1)
Miscellaneous String Methods	478	(2)
Class StringBuilder	480	(2)
StringBuilder Indexer, Length and Capacity Properties, and EnsureCapacity Method	482	(2)
StringBuilder Append and AppendFormat Methods	484	(4)
StringBuilder Insert, Remove and Replace Methods	488	(3)
Char Methods	491	(3)
Card Shuffling and Dealing Simulation	494	(4)
Regular Expressions and Class Regex	498	(11)
Summary	509	(1)
Graphics and Multimedia	510	(68)
Introduction	511	(2)
Graphics Contexts and Graphics Objects	513	(1)
Color Control	514	(8)
Font Control	522	(5)
Drawing Lines, Rectangles and Ovals	527	(3)
Drawing Arcs	530	(3)
Drawing Polygons and Polylines	533	(4)
Advanced Graphics Capabilities	537	(6)
Introduction to Multimedia	543	(1)
Loading, Displaying and Scaling Images	544	(2)
Animating a Series of Images	546	(13)
Windows Media Player	559	(3)
Microsoft Agent	562	(14)
Summary	576	(2)
Files and Streams	578	(78)
Introduction	579	(1)
Data Hierarchy	579	(2)
Files and Streams	581	(2)
Classes File and Directory	583	(10)
Creating a Sequential-Access File	593	(12)
Reading Data from a Sequential-Access File	605	(11)
Random-Access Files	616	(4)
Creating a Random-Access File	620	(4)
Writing Data Randomly to a Random-Access File	624	(5)
Reading Data Sequentially from a Random-Access File	629	(5)
Case Study: A Transaction-Processing Program	634	(20)
Summary	654	(2)
Extensible Markup Language (XML)	656	(53)
Introduction	657	(1)
XML Documents	657	(5)
XML Namespaces	662	(3)
Document Object Model (DOM)	665	(18)
Document Type Definitions (DTDs), Schemas and Validation	683	(12)
Document Type Definitions	684	(3)
Microsoft XML Schemas	687	(3)
W3C XML Schema	690	(1)
Schema Validation in C#	691	(4)
Extensible Stylesheet Language and XslTransform	695	(7)
Microsoft BizTalk™	702	(3)
Summary	705	(2)
Internet and World Wide Web Resources	707	(2)
Database, SQL and ADO .NET	709	(48)
Introduction	710	(1)
Relational Database Model	711	(1)
Relational Database Overview: Books Database	712	(7)
Structured Query Language (SQL)	719	(15)
Basic Select Query	719	(1)
Where Clause	720	(3)
Order by Clause	723	(3)
Merging Data from Multiple Tables: Inner Join	726	(2)
Joining Data from Tables Authors, AuthorISBN, Titles and Publishers	728	(3)
Insert Statement	731	(1)
Update Statement	732	(1)
Delete Statement	733	(1)
ADO .NET Object Model	734	(1)
Programming with ADO .NET: Extracting Information from a Database	735	(9)
Connecting to and Querying an Access Data Source	735	(7)
Querying the Books Database	742	(2)
Programming with ADO.NET: Modifying a Database	744	(8)
Reading and Writing XML Files	752	(3)
Summary	755	(2)
ASP .NET, Web Forms and Web Controls	757	(85)
Introduction	758	(1)
Simple HTTP Transaction	759	(2)
System Architecture	761	(1)
Creating and Running a Simple Web Form Example	762	(13)
Web Controls	775	(21)
Text and Graphics Controls	776	(4)
AdRotator Control	780	(5)
Validation Controls	785	(11)
Session Tracking	796	(19)
Cookies	797	(9)
Session Tracking with HttpSessionState	806	(9)
Case Study: Online Guest Book	815	(7)
Case Study: Connecting to a Database in ASP .NET	822	(14)
Tracing	836	(2)
Summary	838	(2)
Internet and Web Resources	840	(2)
ASP .NET and Web Services	842	(63)
Introduction	843	(1)
Web Services	844	(3)
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Web Services	847	(2)
Publishing and Consuming Web Services	849	(15)
Session Tracking in Web Services	864	(13)
Using Web Forms and Web Services	877	(6)
Case Study: Temperature Information Application	883	(10)
User-Defined Types in Web Services	893	(10)
Summary	903	(2)
Networking: Streams-Based Sockets and Datagrams	905	(36)
Introduction	906	(1)
Establishing a Simple Server (Using Stream Sockets)	907	(2)
Establishing a Simple Client (Using Stream Sockets)	909	(1)
Client/Server Interaction with Stream-Socket Connections	910	(9)
Connectionless Client/Server Interaction with Datagrams	919	(5)
Client/Server Tic-Tac-Toe Using a Multithreaded Server	924	(15)
Summary	939	(2)
Data Structures and Collections	941	(61)
Introduction	942	(1)
Self-Referential Classes	942	(2)
Linked Lists	944	(12)
Stacks	956	(5)
Queues	961	(3)
Trees	964	(17)
Binary Search Tree of Integer Values	966	(7)
Binary Search Tree of IComparable Objects	973	(8)
Collection Classes	981	(19)
Class Array	981	(3)
Class ArrayList	984	(6)
Class Stack	990	(4)
Class Hashtable	994	(6)
Summary	1000	(2)
Accessibility	1002	(55)
Introduction	1003	(1)
Regulations and Resources	1004	(2)
Web Accessibility Initiative	1006	(1)
Providing Alternatives for Images	1006	(2)
Maximizing Readability by Focusing on Structure	1008	(1)
Accessibility in Visual Studio .NET	1008	(6)
Enlarging Toolbar Icons	1009	(1)
Enlarging the Text	1010	(1)
Modifying the Toolbox	1011	(1)
Modifying the Keyboard	1011	(1)
Rearranging Windows	1012	(2)
Accessibility in C#	1014	(6)
Accessibility in XHTML Tables	1020	(4)
Accessibility in XHTML Frames	1024	(1)
Accessibility in XML	1025	(1)
Using Voice Synthesis and Recognition with VoiceXML™	1025	(8)
CallXML™	1033	(5)
JAWS® for Windows	1038	(1)
Other Accessibility Tools	1039	(2)
Accessibility in Microsoft® Windows® 2000	1041	(12)
Tools for People with Visual Impairments	1042	(2)
Tools for People with Hearing Impairments	1044	(1)
Tools for Users Who Have Difficulty Using the Keyboard	1045	(3)
Microsoft Narrator	1048	(3)
Microsoft On-Screen Keyboard	1051	(1)
Accessibility Features in Microsoft Internet Explorer	1052	(1)
Summary	1053	(1)
Internet and Web Resources	1054	(3)
Mobile Internet Toolkit	1057	(52)
Introduction	1058	(1)
Mobile Internet Toolkit Client Devices	1058	(2)
Introduction to the Mobile Internet Toolkit and Mobile Web Forms	1060	(15)
Advanced Mobile Web Forms Controls	1075	(8)
Example: Deitel Wireless Portal	1083	(5)
Device-Independent Web Design Using Style Sheets and Templates	1088	(13)
Consuming a Web Service from a Mobile Application	1101	(6)
Summary	1107	(1)
Internet and World Wide Web Resources	1108	(1)
A Operator Precedence Chart	1109	(2)
B Number Systems	1111	(11)
Introduction	1112	(3)
Abbreviating Binary Numbers as Octal Numbers and Hexadecimal Numbers	1115	(2)
Converting Octal Numbers and Hexadecimal Numbers to Binary Numbers	1117	(1)
Converting from Binary, Octal or Hexadecimal to Decimal	1117	(1)
Converting from Decimal to Binary, Octal or Hexadecimal	1118	(1)
Negative Binary Numbers: Two's Complement Notation	1119	(1)
Summary	1120	(2)
C Career Opportunities	1122	(20)
Introduction	1123	(1)
Resources for the Job Seeker	1124	(1)
Online Opportunities for Employers	1125	(5)
Posting Jobs Online	1127	(2)
Problems with Recruiting on the Web	1129	(1)
Diversity in the Workplace	1129	(1)
Recruiting Services	1130	(1)
Career Sites	1131	(5)
Comprehensive Career Sites	1131	(1)
Technical Positions	1132	(1)
Wireless Positions	1132	(1)
Contracting Online	1133	(1)
Executive Positions	1134	(1)
Students and Young Professionals	1135	(1)
Other Online Career Services	1135	(1)
Summary	1136	(1)
Internet and World Wide Web Resources	1137	(5)
D Visual Studio .NET Debugger	1142	(18)
Introduction	1143	(1)
Breakpoints	1144	(2)
Examining Data	1146	(3)
Program Control	1149	(4)
Additional Method Debugging Capabilities	1153	(2)
Additional Class Debugging Capabilities	1155	(3)
Summary	1158	(2)
E Generating Documentation in Visual Studio .NET	1160	(19)
Introduction	1161	(1)
Documentation Comments	1161	(1)
Documenting C# Source Code	1162	(8)
Creating Comment Web Pages	1170	(2)
Creating XML Documentation Files	1172	(5)
Summary	1177	(2)
F ASCII Character Set	1179	(1)
G Unicode®	1180	(11)
Introduction	1181	(1)
Unicode Transformation Formats	1182	(1)
Characters and Glyphs	1183	(1)
Advantages and Disadvantages of Unicode	1184	(1)
Unicode Consortium's Web Site	1184	(1)
Using Unicode	1185	(3)
Character Ranges	1188	(1)
Summary	1189	(2)
H COM Integration	1191	(11)
Introduction	1191	(1)
ActiveX Integration	1192	(4)
DLL Integration	1196	(4)
Summary	1200	(1)
Internet and World Wide Web Resources	1201	(1)
I Introduction to HyperText Markup Language 4: Part 1	1202	(20)
Introduction	1203	(1)
Markup Languages	1203	(1)
Editing HTML	1204	(1)
Common Elements	1204	(3)
Headers	1207	(1)
Linking	1208	(2)
Images	1210	(4)
Special Characters and More Line Breaks	1214	(2)
Unordered Lists	1216	(1)
Nested and Ordered Lists	1217	(3)
Summary	1220	(1)
Internet and World Wide Web Resources	1221	(1)
J Introduction to HyperText Markup Language 4: Part 2	1222	(30)
Introduction	1223	(1)
Basic HTML Tables	1223	(2)
Intermediate HTML Tables and Formatting	1225	(3)
Basic HTML Forms	1228	(3)
More Complex HTML Forms	1231	(7)
Internal Linking	1238	(3)
Creating and Using Image Maps	1241	(2)
<meta> Tags	1243	(2)
frameset Element	1245	(2)
Nested framesets	1247	(2)
Summary	1249	(2)
Internet and World Wide Web Resources	1251	(1)
K Introduction to XHTML: Part 1	1252	(23)
Introduction	1253	(1)
Editing XHTML	1253	(1)
First XHTML Example	1254	(3)
W3C XHTML Validation Service	1257	(1)
Headers	1258	(2)
Linking	1260	(3)
Images	1263	(4)
Special Characters and More Line Breaks	1267	(2)
Unordered Lists	1269	(1)
Nested and Ordered Lists	1270	(3)
Summary	1273	(1)
Internet and World Wide Web Resources	1274	(1)
L Introduction to XHTML: Part 2	1275	(32)
Introduction	1276	(1)
Basic XHTML Tables	1276	(3)
Intermediate XHTML Tables and Formatting	1279	(2)
Basic XHTML Forms	1281	(3)
More Complex XHTML Forms	1284	(8)
Internal Linking	1292	(3)
Creating and Using Image Maps	1295	(2)
meta Elements	1297	(1)
frameset Element	1298	(4)
Nested framesets	1302	(2)
Summary	1304	(1)
Internet and World Wide Web Resources	1305	(2)
M HTML/XHTML Special Characters	1307	(1)
N HTML/XHTML Colors	1308	(3)
O Bit Manipulation	1311	(17)
Introduction	1312	(1)
Bit Manipulation and the Bitwise Operators	1312	(12)
Class BitArray	1324	(3)
Summary	1327	(1)
P Crystal Reports® for Visual Studio .NET	1328	(6)
Introduction	1328	(1)
Crystal Reports Web Site Resources	1328	(1)
Crystal Reports and Visual Studio .NET	1329	(5)
Crystal Reports in Web Applications	1332	(1)
Crystal Reports and Web Services	1332	(2)
Bibliography	1334	(4)
Index	1338

Excerpts

Preface Live in fragments no longer. Only connect. --Edward Morgan Forster We wove a web in childhood, A web of sunny air. --Charlotte Bronte Welcome to C# and the world of Windows, Internet and World-Wide-Web programming with Visual Studio .NET and the .NET platform! This book is the second in the new Deitel Developer Series, which presents leading-edge computing technologies to software developers and IT professionals. C# (pronounced "C-sharp") was developed by Microsoft expressly for its .NET platform. C# provides the features that are most important to programmers, such as object-oriented programming, graphics, graphical-user-interface (GUI) components, exception handling, multithreading, multimedia (audio, images, animation and video), file processing, prepackaged data structures, database processing, Internet and World-Wide-Web-based multi-tier application development, networking, Web services and distributed computing. The language is appropriate for implementing Internet- and World-Wide-Web-based applications that integrate seamlessly with Windows-based applications. The .NET platform offers powerful capabilities for software development and deployment, including language and platform independence. For example, developers writing code in any (or several) of the .NET languages (such as C#, Visual Basic .NET and Visual C++ .NET) can contribute components to the same software product. In addition to providing language independence, .NET extends program portability by enabling .NET applications to reside on, and communicate across, multiple platforms. This facilitates the creation and use of Web services, which are applications that expose functionality to clients via the Internet. The .NET platform enables Web-based applications to be distributed to consumer-electronic devices, such as wireless phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs), as well as to desktop computers. The capabilities that Microsoft has incorporated into the .NET platform increase programmer productivity and decrease development time. Who Should Read This Book Deitel & Associates, Inc. has several C# publications, intended for various audiences. We provide information on www.deitel.com , here and inside this book's back cover to help you determine which publication is best for you. Our first C# book, C# How to Program, was published as part of our How to ProgramSeries, for college and university students. It provides a comprehensive treatment of C# and includes learning aids and extensive ancillary support. C# How to Programassumes that the reader has little or no programming experience. Early chapters focus on fundamental programming principles. The book builds on this to create increasingly complex and sophisticated programs that demonstrate how to use C# to create graphical user interfaces, networking applications, multithreaded applications, Web-based applications and more. We encourage professors and professionals to consider the C# Complete Training Course. This package includes C# How to Program as well as the C# Multimedia Cyber Classroom, an interactive multimedia CD-ROM that provides extensive e-Learning features. The C# Complete Training Courseand C# Multimedia Cyber Classroomare discussed in detail later in this Preface. Our third C# publication, C#: A Programmer's Introduction, is part of the new Deitel Developer Series, intended for professional software developers-from novices through experienced programmers. C#: A Programmer's Introductionis a part of the A Programmer's Introduction subseries, which is designed for programmers with little (or no) programming experience. The book begins with C# programming fundamentals. The core of C#: A Pr