Visual C# 2008 How to Program

by Deitel, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780136053224
• ISBN10: 013605322X
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

Created by world-renowned programming instructors Paul and Harvey Deitel, "Visual C# 2008 How to Program, Third Edition" introduces all facets of the C# 2008 language through the Deitels'signature "Live Codetrade; Approach", that features hundreds of working programs.This book has been thoroughly updated to reflect the major innovations Microsoft has incorporated in Visual C# 2008 and .NET 3.5; The many new platform features covered include: LINQ (Language Integrated Query), Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), ASP.NET Ajax and the Microsoft Ajax Library, Silverlight-based rich Internet application development, and creating Web services with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). New language features introduced in this edition: automatic properties, object initializers, partial classes and methods, anonymous methods, Lambda expressions, extension methods, anonymous types, and collection initializers. Extensively updated coverage of delegates.and more sophisticated techniques, including searching, sorting, data structures, generics, and collections. Appendices provide essential programming reference material on topics ranging from number systems to the Visual Studio Debugger, UML 2 to Unicode and ASCII.Appropriate for all basic-to-intermediate level Visual C# 2008 programmers.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Computers, the Internet and Visual C#	p. 1
Dive Into Visual C# 2008 Express	p. 34
Introduction to C# Applications	p. 73
Introduction to Classes and Objects	p. 124
Control Statements: Part 1	p. 169
Control Statements: Part 2	p. 221
Methods: A Deeper Look	p. 270
Arrays	p. 332
Introduction to LINQ and Generic Collections	p. 405
Classes and Objects: A Deeper Look	p. 426
Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance	p. 496
Polymorphism, Interfaces and Operator Overloading	p. 539
Exception Handling	p. 591
Graphical User Interfaces with Windows Forms: Part 1	p. 624
Graphical User Interfaces with Windows Forms: Part 2	p. 677
GUI with Windows Presentation Foundation	p. 747
WPF Graphics and Multimedia	p. 818
Strings, Characters and Regular Expressions	p. 862
Files and Streams	p. 912
XML and LINQ to XML	p. 964
Databases and LINQ to SQL	p. 1011
ASP.NET 3.5 and ASP.NET AJAX	p. 1060
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Web Services	p. 1172
Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications and Multimedia	p. 1232
Searching and Sorting	p. 1281
Data Structures	p. 1313
Generics	p. 1356
Collections	p. 1381
Operator Precedence Chart	p. 1413
Simple Types	p. 1415
Number Systems	p. 1417
ATM Case Study Code	p. 1430
UML 2: Additional Diagram Types	p. 1456
ASCII Character Set	p. 1458
Unicode	p. 1459
Using the Visual C# 2008 Debugger	p. 1470
Index	p. 1491
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