C# 2010 All-in-One For Dummies

Bill Sempf is a seasoned programmer and .NET evangelist specializing in .NET applications. Chuck Sphar is a programmer and former senior technical writer for the Visual C++ product group at Microsoft. Stephen Randy Davis is the bestselling author of several books, including C++ For Dummies.

• Introduction 1Book I: Basics of C# Programming 9Chapter 1: Creating Your First C# Console Application 11Chapter 2: Living with Variability — Declaring Value-Type Variables 25Chapter 3: Pulling Strings 45Chapter 4: Smooth Operators 73Chapter 5: Getting Into the Program Flow 85Chapter 6: Lining Up Your Ducks with Collections 109Chapter 7: Stepping through Collections 135Chapter 8: Buying Generic 169Chapter 9: Some Exceptional Exceptions 187Book II: Object-Oriented C# Programming 205Chapter 1: Object-Oriented Programming: What’s It All About? 207Chapter 2: Showing Some Class 215Chapter 3: We Have Our Methods 227Chapter 4: Let Me Say This about this 247Chapter 5: Holding a Class Responsible 261Chapter 6: Inheritance: Is That All I Get? 285Chapter 7: Poly-what-ism? 307Chapter 8: Interfacing with the Interface 333Chapter 9: Delegating Those Important Events 357Chapter 10: Can I Use Your Namespace in the Library? 377Book III: Designing for C# 399Chapter 1: Writing Secure Code 401Chapter 2: Accessing Data 415Chapter 3: Fishing the FileStream 435Chapter 4: Accessing the Internet 455Chapter 5: Creating Images 469Book IV: A Tour of Visual Studio 479Chapter 1: Getting Started with Visual Studio 481Chapter 2: Using the Interface 495Chapter 3: Customizing Visual Studio 517Chapter 4: Transforming Text Templates 533Book V: Windows Development with WPF 543Chapter 1: Introducing WPF 545Chapter 2: Understanding the Basics of WPF 555Chapter 3: Data Binding in WPF 579Chapter 4: Practical WPF 601Book VI: Web Development with ASP.NET 627Chapter 1: Looking at How ASP.NET Works with C# 629Chapter 2: Building Web Applications 641Chapter 3: Controlling Your Development Experience 659Chapter 4: Leveraging the .NET Framework 685Chapter 5: Digging into Web Construction 703Book VII: Service-Oriented Development 717Chapter 1: Getting Acquainted with Web Services 719Chapter 2: Building Web Services with ASMX 731Chapter 3: Building Web Services with WCF 745Chapter 4: Building Web Services with ReST 759Book VIII: New Features in C# 4.0 767Chapter 1: Programming Dynamically! 769Chapter 2: Improving Productivity with Named and Optional Parameters 781Chapter 3: Helping Out with Interop 789Chapter 4: Revising Generics 795Index 799