Table of Contents

Preface; 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; Chapter 1: C# and .NET Programming; 1.1 Installing C# Express; 1.2 C# 3.0 and .NET 3.5; 1.3 The .NET Platform; 1.4 The .NET Framework; 1.5 The C# Language; 1.6 Your First Program: Hello World; 1.7 The Compiler; 1.8 Examining Your First Program; 1.9 The Integrated Development Environment; 1.10 Summary; 1.11 Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; 1.12 Test Your Knowledge: Exercise; Chapter 2: Visual Studio 2008 and C# Express 2008; 2.1 Before You Read Further; 2.2 The Start Page; 2.3 Projects and Solutions; 2.4 Inside the Integrated Development Environment; 2.5 Building and Running Applications; 2.6 Menus; 2.7 Summary; 2.8 Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; 2.9 Test Your Knowledge: Exercises; Chapter 3: C# Language Fundamentals; 3.1 Statements; 3.2 Types; 3.3 WriteLine() and Output; 3.4 Variables and Assignment; 3.5 Casting; 3.6 Constants; 3.7 Strings; 3.8 Whitespace; 3.9 Summary; 3.10 Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; 3.11 Test Your Knowledge: Exercises; Chapter 4: Operators; 4.1 Expressions; 4.2 The Assignment Operator (=); 4.3 Mathematical Operators; 4.4 Increment and Decrement Operators; 4.5 Relational Operators; 4.6 Logical Operators and Conditionals; 4.7 The Conditional Operator; 4.8 Operator Precedence; 4.9 Summary; 4.10 Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; 4.11 Test Your Knowledge: Exercises; Chapter 5: Branching; 5.1 Unconditional Branching Statements; 5.2 Conditional Branching Statements; 5.3 ReadLine() and Input; 5.4 Iteration (Looping) Statements; 5.5 Summary; 5.6 Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; 5.7 Test Your Knowledge: Exercises; Chapter 6: Object-Oriented Programming; 6.1 Creating Models; 6.2 Classes and Objects; 6.3 Defining a Class; 6.4 Class Relationships; 6.5 The Three Pillars of Object-Oriented Programming; 6.6 Object-Oriented Analysis and Design; 6.7 Summary; 6.8 Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; 6.9 Test Your Knowledge: Exercises; Chapter 7: Classes and Objects; 7.1 Defining Classes; 7.2 Method Arguments; 7.3 Return Types; 7.4 Constructors; 7.5 Initializers; 7.6 Object Initializers; 7.7 Anonymous Types; 7.8 The this Keyword; 7.9 Static and Instance Members; 7.10 Finalizing Objects; 7.11 Memory Allocation: The Stack Versus the Heap; 7.12 Summary; 7.13 Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; 7.14 Test Your Knowledge: Exercises; Chapter 8: Inside Methods; 8.1 Overloading Methods; 8.2 Encapsulating Data with Properties; 8.3 Returning Multiple Values; 8.4 Summary; 8.5 Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; 8.6 Test Your Knowledge: Exercises; Chapter 9: Basic Debugging; 9.1 Setting a Breakpoint; 9.2 Examining Values: The Autos and Locals Windows; 9.3 Setting Your Watch; 9.4 The Call Stack; 9.5 Stopping Debugging; 9.6 Summary; 9.7 Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; 9.8 Test Your Knowledge: Exercises; Chapter 10: Arrays; 10.1 Using Arrays; 10.2 The foreach Statement; 10.3 Initializing Array Elements; 10.4 The params Keyword; 10.5 Multidimensional Arrays; 10.6 Array Methods; 10.7 Sorting Arrays; 10.8 Summary; 10.9 Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; 10.10 Test Your Knowledge: Exercises; Chapter 11: Inheritance and Polymorphism; 11.1 Specialization and Generalization; 11.2 Inheritance; 11.3 Polymorphism; 11.4 Abstract Classes; 11.5 Sealed Classes; 11.6 The Root of All Classes: Object; 11.7 Summary; 11.8 Test Your Knowlege: Quiz; 11.9 Test Your Knowledge: Exercises; Chapter 12: Operator Overloading; 12.1 Designing the Fraction Class; 12.2 Using the operator Keyword; 12.3 Creating Useful Operators; 12.4 The Equals Operator; 12.5 Conversion Operators; 12.6 Summary; 12.7 Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; 12.8 Test Your Knowledge: Exercises; Chapter 13: Interfaces; 13.1 What Interfaces Are; 13.2 Implementing an Interface; 13.3 Implementing More Than One Interface; 13.4 Casting to an Interface; 13.5 The is and as Operators; 13.6 Extending Interfaces; 13.7 Combining Interfaces; 13.8 Overriding Interface Methods; 13.9 Explicit Interface Implementation; 13.10 Summary; 13.11 Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; 13.12 Test Your Knowledge: Exercises; Chapter 14: Generics and Collections; 14.1 Generics; 14.2 Collection Interfaces; 14.3 Creating Your Own Collections; 14.4 Framework Generic Collections; 14.5 Summary; 14.6 Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; 14.7 Test Your Knowledge: Exercises; Chapter 15: Strings; 15.1 Creating Strings; 15.2 Manipulating Strings; 15.3 Regular Expressions; 15.4 The Regex Class; 15.5 Summary; 15.6 Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; 15.7 Test Your Knowledge: Exercises; Chapter 16: Throwing and Catching Exceptions; 16.1 Bugs, Errors, and Exceptions; 16.2 Throwing Exceptions; 16.3 Searching for an Exception Handler; 16.4 The throw Statement; 16.5 The try and catch Statements; 16.6 How the Call Stack Works; 16.7 Creating Dedicated catch Statements; 16.8 The finally Statement; 16.9 Exception Class Methods and Properties; 16.10 Custom Exceptions; 16.11 Summary; 16.12 Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; 16.13 Test Your Knowledge: Exercises; Chapter 17: Delegates and Events; 17.1 Delegates; 17.2 Using Anonymous Methods; 17.3 Lambda Expressions; 17.4 Summary; 17.5 Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; 17.6 Test Your Knowledge: Exercises; Chapter 18: Creating Windows Applications; 18.1 Creating a Simple Windows Form; 18.2 Creating a Real-World Application; 18.3 Source Code; 18.4 Summary; 18.5 Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; 18.6 Test Your Knowledge: Exercises; Chapter 19: Windows Presentation Foundation; 19.1 Your First WPF Application; 19.2 WPF Differences from Windows Forms; 19.3 Using Resources; 19.4 Animations; 19.5 C# and WPF; 19.6 Summary; 19.7 Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; 19.8 Test Your Knowledge: Exercises; Chapter 20: ADO.NET and Relational Databases; 20.1 Relational Databases and SQL; 20.2 The ADO.NET Object Model; 20.3 Getting Started with ADO.NET; 20.4 Summary; 20.5 Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; 20.6 Test Your Knowledge: Exercises; Chapter 21: LINQ; 21.1 Querying In-Memory Data; 21.2 Anonymous Types and Implicitly Typed Variables; 21.3 Lambda Expressions; 21.4 Ordering and Joining; 21.5 Using LINQ with SQL; 21.6 Using the Object Relational Designer; 21.7 Summary; 21.8 Test Your Knowledge: Quiz; 21.9 Test Your Knowledge: Exercises; Answers to Quizzes and Exercises; Chapter 1: C# and .NET Programming; Chapter 2: Visual Studio 2008 and C# Express 2008; Chapter 3: C# Language Fundamentals; Chapter 4: Operators; Chapter 5: Branching; Chapter 6: Object-Oriented Programming; Chapter 7: Classes and Objects; Chapter 8: Inside Methods; Chapter 9: Basic Debugging; Chapter 10: Arrays; Chapter 11: Inheritance and Polymorphism; Chapter 12: Operator Overloading; Chapter 13: Interfaces; Chapter 14: Generics and Collections; Chapter 15: Strings; Chapter 16: Throwing and Catching Exceptions; Chapter 17: Delegates and Events; Chapter 18: Creating Windows Applications; Chapter 19: Windows Presentation Foundation; Chapter 20: ADO.NET and Relational Databases; Chapter 21: LINQ; Colophon;