C# 24-Hour Trainer

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Stephens Rod. C# 24-Hour Trainer

Introduction

What's New in the Second Edition

Who This Book Is For

What This Book Covers (And What It Doesn't)

The Wrox 24-Hour Trainer Approach

How This Book Is Structured

What You Need to Use This Book

Conventions

Source Code

Errata

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Section I. The Visual Studio IDE and Controls

Lesson 1. Getting Started with the Visual Studio IDE

Installing C#

Configuring the IDE

Building Your First Program

Copying Projects

Exploring the IDE

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Exercises

Lesson 2. Creating Controls

Understanding Controls

Creating Controls

Setting Control Properties

Arranging Controls

WPF Controls

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Exercises

Lesson 3. Making Controls Arrange Themselves

Restricting Form Size

Using Anchor Properties

Using Dock Properties

Layout Containers

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Exercises

Lesson 4. Handling Events

Making Event Handlers

Using Event Parameters

Removing Event Handlers

Adding and Removing Event Handlers in Code

Useful Events

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Exercises

Lesson 5. Making Menus

Creating Menus

Setting Menu Properties

Handling Menu Events

Creating Context Menus

WPF Menus

WPF Context Menus

WPF Commanding

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Exercises

Lesson 6. Making Tool Strips and Status Strips

Using Tool Strips

Using Tool Strip Containers

Using Status Strips

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Exercises

Lesson 7. Using RichTextBoxes

Using RichTextBox Properties

Giving the User Control

Using RichTextBox Methods

Using WPF Commands

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Exercises

Lesson 8. Using Standard Dialogs

Using Dialogs in General

Using Dialog Properties

Using File Filters

Using Dialogs in WPF

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Exercises

Lesson 9. Creating and Displaying New Forms

Adding New Forms

Understanding Classes and Instances

Displaying Forms

Controlling Remote Forms

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Exercises

Lesson 10. Building Custom Dialogs

Making Custom Dialogs

Setting the Dialog Result

Using Custom Dialogs

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Exercises

Section II. Variables and Calculations

Lesson 11. Using Variables and Performing Calculations

What Are Variables?

Data Types

Declaring Variables

Literal Values

Type Conversions

Performing Calculations

Constants

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Exercises

Lesson 12. Debugging Code

Deferred Techniques

Debugging Then and Now

Setting Breakpoints

Reading Variables

Stepping Through Code

Using Watches

Using the Immediate Window

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Exercises

Lesson 13. Understanding Scope

Scope within a Class

Accessibility

Restricting Scope and Accessibility

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Exercises

Lesson 14. Working with Strings

String Methods

Format and ToString

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Lesson 15. Working with Dates and Times

Creating DateTime Variables

Local and UTC Time

DateTime Properties and Methods

TimeSpans

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Exercises

Lesson 16. Using Arrays and Collections

Arrays

Collection Classes

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Exercises

Lesson 17. Using Enumerations and Structures

Enumerations

Structures

Structures Versus Classes

Where to Put Structures

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Exercises

Section III. Program Statements

Lesson 18. Making Choices

Decision Statements

if Statements

if-else Statements

Cascading if Statements

Nested if Statements

Switch Statements

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Exercises

Lesson 19. Repeating Program Steps

for Loops

Foreach Loops

while Loops

do Loops

break and continue

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Exercises

Lesson 20. Reusing Code with Methods

Method Advantages

Method Syntax

Using ref Parameters

Using out Parameters

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Exercises

Lesson 21. Handling Errors

Errors and Exceptions

try-catch Blocks

TryParse

Throwing Exceptions

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Exercises

Lesson 22. Preventing Bugs

Input Assertions

Other Assertions

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Exercises

Section IV. Classes

Lesson 23. Defining Classes

What Is a Class?

Class Benefits

Making a Class

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Methods

Events

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Inheritance

Polymorphism

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Exercises

Lesson 24. Initializing Objects

Initializing Objects

Constructors

Destructors

Invoking Other Constructors

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Exercises

Lesson 25. Fine-Tuning Classes

Overloading Methods

Overriding Methods

Overriding ToString

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Exercises

Lesson 26. Overloading Operators

Overloadable Operators

Unary Operators

Binary Operators

Comparison Operators

Conversion Operators

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Lesson 27. Using Interfaces

Interface Advantages

Implementing Interfaces

Defining Interfaces

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Lesson 28. Making Generic Classes

Defining Generic Classes

Using Generic Constraints

Making Generic Methods

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Section V. System Interactions

Lesson 29. Using Files

Filesystem Classes

Path

Streams

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Exercises

Lesson 30. Printing

Windows Forms Printing

WPF Printing

Printing Visuals

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Section VI. Windows Apps

Lesson 31. Windows Store Apps

Navigation Style

App Styles

App Images

Deployment

WPF Techniques

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Lesson 32. Windows Phone Apps

Building Apps

Navigation Style

App Styles

App Images

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Exercises

Section VII. Specialized Topics

Lesson 33. Localizing Programs

Understanding Localization

Building Localized Interfaces

Testing Localizations

Processing Locale-Specific Values

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Exercises

Lesson 34. Programming Databases, Part 1

Connecting to a Database

Displaying Data in a Grid

Displaying Data One Record at a Time

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Exercises

Lesson 35. Programming Databases, Part 2

Searching

Filtering

Sorting

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Exercises

Lesson 36. LINQ to Objects

LINQ Basics

where Clauses

Order By Clauses

Select Clauses

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Exercises

Lesson 37. LINQ to SQL

Connecting to the Database

Making LINQ to SQL Classes

Writing Code

Using LINQ Queries

Understanding Nullable Fields

Understanding Query Execution

Using LINQ to SQL with Access

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Exercises

Afterword. What's Next?

About the Author

About the Technical Editor

Credits

Acknowledgments

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