Start Here!™ Fundamentals of Microsoft® .NET Programming by Stephens, Rod -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Start Here!™ Fundamentals of Microsoft® .NET Programming

Introduction

Who Should Read This Book

Assumptions

Who Should Not Read This Book What You Need to Use This Book Organization of This Book Conventions and Features in This Book Source Code Acknowledgments Errata & Book Support We Want to Hear from You Stay in Touch Other Resources

1. Computer Hardware

Types of Computers

Personal Computers Desktops, Towers, and Workstations Laptops, Notebooks, Netbooks, and Tablets Minis, Servers, and Mainframes Handheld Computers Comparing Computer Types

Computer Speed Data Storage

RAM Flash Drives Hard Drives Blu-ray, DVD, and CD Drives Working with Files

Networks Summary

2. Multiprocessing

Multitasking Multiprocessing Multithreading Problems with Parallelism

Contention for Resources Race Conditions Locks Deadlocks

Looking for Parallelism Distributed Computing Task Parallel Library Summary

3. Programming Environments

From Software to Hardware Programming Environments Visual Studio Summary

4. Windows Program Components

Menus

Use Ellipses Provide Accelerators Provide Shortcuts Use Standard Menu Items Don’t Hide Commands Use Shallow Menu Hierarchies Keep Menus Short A Menu Example

Context Menus Toolbars and Ribbons Dialog Boxes User Interface Design

Control Order Group Related Controls The Rule of Seven Don’t Allow Mistakes Provide Hints

Summary

5. Controls

Using Controls

Windows Forms Controls WPF Controls

Properties

Windows Forms Properties WPF Properties

Methods Events Summary

6. Variables

Fundamental Data Types Strings Program-Defined Data Types

Arrays Enumerations Structures Classes

Value and Reference Types Type Conversion

Explicit Conversion Implicit Conversion

Scope, Accessibility, and Lifetime

Scope Accessibility Lifetime

Summary

7. Control Statements

Pseudocode Looping Statements

For Loops For Each Loops Do While Loops While Loops Until Loops

Conditional Statements

If If Else Else If Case

Jumping Statements

Go To Exit Continue Return

Jumping Guidelines Error Handling Summary

8. Operators

Precedence Operators

Parentheses Operator Precedence Post- and Pre-Increment and Decrement Bitwise Operators Modulus and Division Conditional And and Or Conditional Compound Assignment Operators Concatenation Operators

Operator Overloading

Operator Overloading Overload Conversion Operators

Summary

9. Routines

Types of Routines Advantages of Routines

Reducing Duplicated Code Reusing Code Simplifying Complex Code Hiding Implementation Details Dividing Tasks Among Programmers Making Debugging Easier

Calling Routines Writing Good Routines

Perform a Single, Well-Defined Task Avoid Side Effects Use Descriptive Names Keep It Short Use Comments

Parameters

Optional Parameters Parameter Arrays Parameter-Passing Methods Reference and Value Types Arrays Routine Overloading

Routine Accessibility Recursion Summary

10. Object-Oriented Programming

Classes Class Benefits Properties, Methods, and Events

Properties Methods Events Shared Versus Instance Members

Inheritance Polymorphism Overriding Members Shadowing Members Inheritance Diagrams Abstraction and Refinement

Abstraction Refinement

“Is-A” Versus “Has-A” Multiple Inheritance and Interface Implementation Constructors and Destructors

Constructors

Constructors in the Same Class Constructors in the Parent Class

Destructors

Garbage Collection IDisposable

Summary

11. Development Techniques

Comments

Types of Comments XML Comments

IntelliSense Support Automatic Documentation Creating XML Comments Supported XML Comments

Naming Conventions Development Techniques

Data-centric Viewpoint User-centric Viewpoint Agile Development Extreme Programming Test-driven Development

Summary

12. Globalization

Terminology Culture Codes Locale-Specific Text and Symbols Localizing User Interfaces in Visual Studio Locale-Specific Formats Culture-Aware Functions in .NET Summary

13. Data Storage

Files

Text Files Random Access Files INI Files XML Files Config Files

The System Registry Relational Databases Other Databases

Spreadsheets Object Stores Object-Relational Database Hierarchical Databases Network Databases Temporal Databases

Summary

14. .NET Libraries

Microsoft Namespaces System Namespaces Summary

Glossary Index About the Author

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