Learning C# 3.0 by MacDonald, Brian -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Learning C# 3.0

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About This Book Who This Book Is For How This Book Is Organized Conventions Used in This Book Support: A Note from Jesse Liberty Using Code Examples We'd Like to Hear from You Safari® Books Online Acknowledgments

Jesse Liberty Brian MacDonald

1. C# and .NET Programming

Installing C# Express C# 3.0 and .NET 3.5 The .NET Platform The .NET Framework The C# Language Your First Program: Hello World The Compiler Examining Your First Program The Integrated Development Environment Summary Test Your Knowledge: Quiz Test Your Knowledge: Exercise

2. Visual Studio 2008 and C# Express 2008

Before You Read Further The Start Page Projects and Solutions

Project Types Templates

Inside the Integrated Development Environment Building and Running Applications Menus

The File Menu The Edit Menu

The Clipboard Ring Find and Replace Go To Insert File As Text Advanced Incremental search Bookmarks Outlining IntelliSense

The View Menu

Class View Code Definition Error List Output Properties Task List Toolbox Other Windows

The Refactor Menu The Project Menu The Build Menu The Debug Menu The Data Menu The Format Menu The Tools Menu

Connect to Device Device Emulator Manager Connect to Database Connect to Server Code Snippets Manager Choose Toolbox Items External Tools Import and Export Settings Options

The Window Menu The Help Menu

Summary Test Your Knowledge: Quiz Test Your Knowledge: Exercises

3. C# Language Fundamentals

Statements Types

Numeric Types Nonnumeric Types: char and bool Types and Compiler Errors

WriteLine( ) and Output Variables and Assignment

Definite Assignment Implicitly Typed Variables

Casting Constants

Literal Constants Symbolic Constants Enumerations

Strings Whitespace Summary Test Your Knowledge: Quiz Test Your Knowledge: Exercises

4. Operators

Expressions The Assignment Operator (=) Mathematical Operators

Simple Arithmetic Operators (+, –, *, /) The Modulus Operator (%)

Increment and Decrement Operators

The Calculate and Reassign Operators Increment or Decrement by 1 The Prefix and Postfix Operators

Relational Operators Logical Operators and Conditionals The Conditional Operator Operator Precedence Summary Test Your Knowledge: Quiz Test Your Knowledge: Exercises

5. Branching

Unconditional Branching Statements Conditional Branching Statements

if Statements Single-Statement if Blocks Short-Circuit Evaluation if . . . else Statements Nested if Statements switch Statements Fall-Through and Jump-to Cases Switch on string Statements

ReadLine( ) and Input Iteration (Looping) Statements

Creating Loops with goto The while Loop The do…while Loop The for Loop

Controlling a for loop with the modulus operator Breaking out of a for loop The continue statement Optional for loop header elements

Summary Test Your Knowledge: Quiz Test Your Knowledge: Exercises

6. Object-Oriented Programming

Creating Models Classes and Objects Defining a Class Class Relationships The Three Pillars of Object-Oriented Programming

Encapsulation Specialization Polymorphism

Object-Oriented Analysis and Design Summary Test Your Knowledge: Quiz Test Your Knowledge: Exercises

7. Classes and Objects

Defining Classes

Instantiating Objects Creating a Box Class Access Modifiers

Method Arguments Return Types Constructors Initializers Object Initializers Anonymous Types The this Keyword Static and Instance Members

Invoking Static Methods Using Static Fields

Finalizing Objects Memory Allocation: The Stack Versus the Heap Summary Test Your Knowledge: Quiz Test Your Knowledge: Exercises

8. Inside Methods

Overloading Methods Encapsulating Data with Properties

The get Accessor The set Accessor Automatic Properties

Returning Multiple Values

Passing Value Types by Reference out Parameters and Definite Assignment

Summary Test Your Knowledge: Quiz Test Your Knowledge: Exercises

9. Basic Debugging

Setting a Breakpoint

Using the Debug Menu to Set Your Breakpoint Setting Conditions and Hit Counts

Examining Values: The Autos and Locals Windows Setting Your Watch The Call Stack Stopping Debugging Summary Test Your Knowledge: Quiz Test Your Knowledge: Exercises

10. Arrays

Using Arrays

Declaring Arrays Understanding Default Values Accessing Array Elements Arrays and Loops

The foreach Statement Initializing Array Elements The params Keyword Multidimensional Arrays

Rectangular Arrays Jagged Arrays

Array Methods Sorting Arrays Summary Test Your Knowledge: Quiz Test Your Knowledge: Exercises

11. Inheritance and Polymorphism

Specialization and Generalization Inheritance

Implementing Inheritance Calling the Base Class Constructor Hiding the Base Class Method Controlling Access

Polymorphism

Creating Polymorphic Types Overriding Virtual Methods Using Objects Polymorphically Versioning with new and override

Abstract Classes Sealed Classes The Root of All Classes: Object Summary Test Your Knowlege: Quiz Test Your Knowledge: Exercises

12. Operator Overloading

Designing the Fraction Class Using the operator Keyword Creating Useful Operators The Equals Operator Conversion Operators Summary Test Your Knowledge: Quiz Test Your Knowledge: Exercises

13. Interfaces

What Interfaces Are Implementing an Interface

Defining the Interface Implementing the Interface on the Client

Implementing More Than One Interface Casting to an Interface The is and as Operators Extending Interfaces Combining Interfaces Overriding Interface Methods Explicit Interface Implementation Summary Test Your Knowledge: Quiz Test Your Knowledge: Exercises

14. Generics and Collections

Generics Collection Interfaces Creating Your Own Collections

Creating Indexers Indexers and Assignment Indexing on Other Values Generic Collection Interfaces The IEnumerable<T> Interface

Framework Generic Collections

Generic Lists: List<T>

Sorting objects with the generic list Controlling sorting by implementing IComparer<T>

Generic Queues Generic Stacks Dictionaries

Summary Test Your Knowledge: Quiz Test Your Knowledge: Exercises

15. Strings

Creating Strings

String Literals Escape Characters Verbatim Strings The ToString( ) Method

Manipulating Strings

Comparing Strings Concatenating Strings Copying Strings Testing for Equality Other Useful String Methods Finding Substrings Splitting Strings The StringBuilder Class

Regular Expressions The Regex Class Summary Test Your Knowledge: Quiz Test Your Knowledge: Exercises

16. Throwing and Catching Exceptions

Bugs, Errors, and Exceptions Throwing Exceptions Searching for an Exception Handler The throw Statement The try and catch Statements How the Call Stack Works Creating Dedicated catch Statements The finally Statement Exception Class Methods and Properties Custom Exceptions Summary Test Your Knowledge: Quiz Test Your Knowledge: Exercises

17. Delegates and Events

Delegates

Events Publishing and Subscribing Events and Delegates Solving Delegate Problems with Events The event Keyword

Using Anonymous Methods Lambda Expressions Summary Test Your Knowledge: Quiz Test Your Knowledge: Exercises

18. Creating Windows Applications

Creating a Simple Windows Form

Using the Visual Studio Designer

Creating a Real-World Application

Creating the Basic UI Form Populating the TreeView Controls

TreeNode objects Recursing through the subdirectories Getting the files in the directory

Handling the TreeView Events

Clicking the source TreeView Expanding a directory Clicking the target TreeView

Handling the Button Events

Handling the Clear button event Implementing the Copy button event Handling the Delete button event Handling the Cancel button event

Source Code Summary Test Your Knowledge: Quiz Test Your Knowledge: Exercises

19. Windows Presentation Foundation

Your First WPF Application WPF Differences from Windows Forms Using Resources Animations

Triggers and Storyboards Animations As Resources

C# and WPF

Grids and Stack Panels

Defining ListBox styles Triggers and animations

Adding Data

Instantiating objects declaratively

Using the Data in the XAML Defining the ListBox Event Handling The Complete XAML File

Summary Test Your Knowledge: Quiz Test Your Knowledge: Exercises

20. ADO.NET and Relational Databases

Relational Databases and SQL

Installing the Northwind Database Tables, Records, and Columns Normalization Declarative Referential Integrity SQL

The ADO.NET Object Model

DataTables and DataColumns DataRelations Rows DataAdapter DbCommand and DbConnection DataReader

Getting Started with ADO.NET Summary Test Your Knowledge: Quiz Test Your Knowledge: Exercises

21. LINQ

Querying In-Memory Data Anonymous Types and Implicitly Typed Variables Lambda Expressions Ordering and Joining Using LINQ with SQL Using the Object Relational Designer Summary Test Your Knowledge: Quiz Test Your Knowledge: Exercises

A. Answers to Quizzes and Exercises

Chapter 1: C# and .NET Programming

Quiz Solutions Exercise Solution

Chapter 2: Visual Studio 2008 and C# Express 2008