Stephens' C# Programming With Visual Studio 2010 : 24-hour Trainer (With CD)

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This book is a self-paced guide to C# programming in the Visual Studio environment. Easy-to-follow lessons, reinforced by step-by-step instructions, screencasts, and supplemental exercises, allow readers of all learning styles to master Visual C# programming quickly and painlessly. The book's scope is limited to an introduction to Visual C# programming. It starts from scratch, assuming the reader has little or no programming experience, and provides an introduction to Visual C# programming and to Visual Studio. The book is divided into lessons that begin with a discussion of a particular concept or technique. After describing the main concept, the lesson includes a Try It section that invites the reader to perform a programming exercise to solidify the lesson's ideas. The Try It has several subsections. Goals describes the exercise so the reader knows what should happen. Hints gives pointers about possible confusing aspects of the problem if they are needed. Step-by-Step provides a numbered series of steps that show how to solve the problem. A screencast on the accompanying DVD shows the author working through the Try It problem. Additional commentary at the end of the screencast highlights extensions of the lesson's main concepts. After the Try It's Step-by-Step section, the text concludes with a series of exercises that the reader can solve for further practice and to expand the lesson's main ideas. Key Features Rod Stephens is a well-known authority on Microsoft programming--his Visual Basic Programmer's Reference has sold more than 23,000 copies in two editions. Unique Book/Video Package: Each lesson in the print product is supplemented by an instructional video, included on the accompanying DVD. Perfect for beginners: no previous programming experience is required. Fully covers the latest release of Visual C#. The author will create a new online C# community, called CSharpHelper, patterned after his successfull VBHelper website.

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Rod Stephens is a Microsoft MVP and the author of more than 20 books and 250 articles on C#, Visual Basic, Java and other programming topics. He is a regular contributor to DevX (www.DevX.com), and also an ITT adjunct instructor. Rod's clear compelling writing style makes it easy for less experienced readers to master new material. Rod's VB Helper Web site, which receives more than 7 million hits per month, provides more than 2,000 examples demonstrating specific programming techniques in Visual Basic. His new CSharpHelper Web site will contain similar examples for C# programmers. Table of Contents Introduction. section I The Visual Studio IDE and Controls. Chapter 1 Getting Started with the Visual Studio IDE. Chapter 2 Creating Controls. Chapter 3 Making Controls Arrange Themselves. Chapter 4 Handling Events. Chapter 5 Making Menus. Chapter 6 Making Tool Strips and Status Strips. Chapter 7 Using RichTextBoxes. Chapter 8 Using Standard Dialogs. Chapter 9 Creating and Displaying New Forms. Chapter 10 Building Custom Dialogs. Section II Variables and Calculations. Chapter 11 Using Variables and Performing Calculations. Chapter 12 Debugging Code. Chapter 13 Understanding Scope. Chapter 14 Working with Strings. Chapter 15 Working with Dates and Times. Chapter 16 Using Arrays and Collections. Chapter 17 Using Enumerations and Structures. Section III Program Statements. Chapter 18 Making Choices. Chapter 19 Repeating Program Steps. Chapter 20 Reusing Code with Methods. Chapter 21 Handling Errors. Chapter 22 Preventing Bugs. Section IV Classes. Chapter 23 Defining Classes. Chapter 24 Initializing Objects. Chapter 25 Fine-Tuning Classes. Chapter 26 Overloading Operators. Chapter 27 Using Interfaces. Chapter 28 Making Generic Classes. Section V System Interactions. Chapter 29 Reading and Writing Files. Chapter 30 Using File System Classes. Chapter 31 Printing. Chapter 32 Using the Clipboard. Chapter 33 Providing Drag and Drop. Section VI Specialized Topics. Chapter 34 Localizing Programs. Chapter 35 Programming Databases, Part 1. Chapter 36 Programming Databases, Part 2. Chapter 37 LINQ to Objects. Chapter 38 LINQ to SQL. Chapter 39 Drawing with GDI+. Chapter 40 Making WPF Applications. Chapter 41 Printing with WPF. Appendix A Glossary. Appendix B Control Summary. Appendix C What's on the DVD? Index.