Sams Teach Yourself C# in 24 Hours.pdf

Sams Teach Yourself C#™ in 24

Hours

By James Foxall and Wendy Haro-Chun

Publisher: Sams Publishing

Pub Date: March 13, 2002

ISBN: 0-672-32287-0, 528 pages

Table of Contents

Sams Teach Yourself C# in 24 Hours provides

readers with 24 structured lessons that provide a

light, but thorough introduction to C#. James Foxall

moves beyond the pure syntax covered in existing

books, to guide readers step-by-step through a

cohesive presentation of the basics of C#. Once the

basics are understood, Foxall shows the reader how

to apply this knowledge to real-world Windows

programming tasks using C#. Each chapter contains

exercises that reinforce the lessons learned in each

chapter. Tips, Notes, and Cautions provide additional

advice from the authors on how to get up to speed

and programming quickly with C#. Sidebars provide

the more experienced reader with tips that will ease

their migration from Visual Basic 6 and Visual C++ to

C#.

About the Authors

Sams Teach Yourself C#™ in 24 Hours

About the Authors

Acknowledgments

Tell Us What You Think!

Introduction

Audience and Organization

Conventions Used in This Book

Onward and Upward!

Part I. The Visual Studio Environment

Hour 1. A C# Programming Tour

Starting C#

Creating a New Project

Understanding the C# Environment

Changing the Characteristics of Objects

Naming Objects

Setting the Text Property of the Form

Giving the Form an Icon

Changing the Size of the Form

Adding Controls to a Form

Designing an Interface

Adding an Invisible Control to a Form

Coding an Interface

Running a Project

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Hour 2. Navigating C#

Using the Visual Studio .NET Start Page

Navigating and Customizing the C# Environment

Adding Controls to a Form Using the Toolbox

Setting Object Properties Using the Properties Window

Managing Projects

Managing Project Files with the Solution Explorer

Getting Help

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Hour 3. Understanding Objects and Collections

Understanding Objects

Understanding Properties

Understanding Methods

Building an Object Example Project

Understanding Collections

Using the Object Browser

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Hour 4. Understanding Events

Understanding Event-Driven Programming

Building an Event Example Project

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Part II. Building a User Interface

Hour 5. Building Forms—Part I

Changing the Name of a Form

Changing the Appearance of a Form

Showing and Hiding Forms

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Hour 6. Building Forms—Part II

Working with Controls

Creating TopMost Windows

Creating Transparent Forms

Creating Scrollable Forms

Creating MDI Forms

Setting the Startup Object

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Hour 7. Working with the Traditional Controls

Displaying Static Text with the Label Control

Allowing Users to Enter Text Using a Text Box

Creating Buttons

Creating Containers and Groups of Option Buttons

Displaying a List with the List Box

Creating Drop-Down Lists Using the Combo Box

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Hour 8. Advanced Controls

Creating Timers

Creating Tabbed Dialog Boxes

Storing Pictures in an Image List

Building Enhanced Lists Using the List View

Creating Hierarchical Lists with the Tree View

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Hour 9. Adding Menus and Toolbars to Forms

Building Menus

Programming Menus

Using the Toolbar Control

Creating a Status Bar

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Hour 10. Drawing and Printing

Understanding the Graphics Object

Working with Pens

Using System Colors

Working with Rectangles

Drawing Shapes

Drawing Text

Persisting Graphics on a Form

Build a Graphics Project Example

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Part III. Making Things Happen—Programming!

Hour 11. Creating and Calling Methods

Creating Class Members

Writing Methods

Creating the User Interface of Your Project

Calling Methods

Exiting Methods

Working with Tasks

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Hour 12. Using Constants, Data Types, Variables, and Arrays

Understanding Data Types

Defining and Using Constants

Declaring and Referencing Variables

Determining Scope

Naming Conventions

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Hour 13. Performing Arithmetic, String Manipulation, and Date/Time Adjustments

Performing Basic Arithmetic

Comparing Equalities

Understanding Boolean Logic

Manipulating Strings

Working with Dates and Times

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Hour 14. Making Decisions in C# Code

Making Decisions Using if Statements

Evaluating an Expression for Multiple Values Using switch

Branching Within Code Using goto

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Hour 15. Looping for Efficiency

Looping a Specific Number of Times Using for Statements

Using do…while to Loop an Indeterminate Number of Times

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