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Table of Contents

Part I

Introduction

Setting Up Your Windows 7 Environment

Lesson introduction

Setting up your development environment

Lesson 1: Test-Driving a C# App Using Visual Studio for Windows Desktop on Windows 7

Lesson introduction

Test-Driving a C# App Using Visual Studio for Windows Desktop on Windows 7

Lesson 2: Dive Into® Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop

Lesson introduction

Overview of the IDE and creating a new project

IDE Menus and Toolbars

Navigating the IDE

Using Help

Using Visual App Development to Create a Simple App that Displays Text and an Image

Lesson 3: Introduction to C#

Lesson introduction

A Simple C# App: Displaying a Line of Text

Creating a Simple App in Visual Studio

Displaying a Single Line of Text with Multiple Statements

Displaying Multiple Lines of Text with a Single Statement

Formatting Text with Console.Write and Console.WriteLine

Adding Integers

Decision Making: Equality and Relational Operators

Lesson 4: Introduction to Classes, Objexts Methods and Strings

Lesson introduction

Declaring a Class with a Method and Instantiating an Object of That Class

Declaring a Method with a Parameter

Instance Variables and Properties

Value Types vs. Reference Types

Initializing Objects with Constructors

Floating-Point Numbers, Type decimal and Validating Data

Lesson 5: Control Statements: Part 1

Lesson introduction

Class Average Using Counter-Controlled Repetition

Class Average Using Sentinel-Controlled Repetition

Nested Control Statements

Compound Assignment Operators

Increment and Decrement Operators

Lesson 6: Control Statements: Part 2

Lesson introduction

Essentials of Counter-Controlled Repetition

for Repetition Statement

Summing integers with the for statement

Compound Interest Calculations with for

do…while Repetition Statement

switch Multiple-Selection Statement

break Statement Exiting a for Statement

continue Statement Terminating an Iteration of a for Statement

Logical Operators

Lesson 7: Methods: A Deeper Look

Lesson introduction

static Methods: User-Defined Method maximum

Three Ways to Call a Method

Promotion Rules

The .NET Framework Class Library

Shifted and Scaled Random Numbers for Rolling a Six-Sided Die

Roll a Six-Sided Die 6,000,000 Times

Case Study: A Game of Chance; Introducing Enumerations

Scope of Declarations

Method Overloading

Optional Parameters

Named Parameters

A Simple Example of Recursion: Factorial

Passing Arguments By Value and By Reference

Lesson 8: Arrays; Introduction to Exception Handling

Lesson introduction

Creating an Array

Using an Array Initializer

Calculating a Value to Store in Each Element of an Array; Introducing const

Summing the Elements of an Array

Using Bar Charts to Display Data Graphically

Using the Elements of an Array as Counters

Using Arrays to Analyze Survey Results; Introduction to Exception Handling

Card Shuffling and Dealing Simulation; Introducing Arrays of References to Objects and the ToString method

foreach Repetition Statement

Passing Arrays and Array Elements to Methods

Passing Arrays by Value and by Reference

Case Study: GradeBook Using an Array to Store Grades

Multidimensional Arrays

Case Study: GradeBook Using a Rectangular Array

Variable-Length Argument Lists

Using Command-Line Arguments

Part II

Introduction

Lesson 9: Introduction to LINQ and the List Collection

Lesson introduction

Querying an Array of int Values using LINQ

Querying an Array of Employee Objects Using LINQ

Introduction to Collection and the Generic List Class

Querying a Generic Collection Using LINQ

Lesson 10: Classes and Objects: A Deeper Look

Lesson introduction

Time Class Case Study

Controlling Access to Members

Referring to the Current Object’s Members with the this Reference

Time Class Case Study: Overloaded Constructors

Composition

static Class Members

A Note About Constant Fields of a Class

Class View and Object Browser

Object Initializers

Lesson 11: Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance

Lesson introduction

Base Classes and Derived Classes

Creating a CommissionEmployee Class

Creating a BasePlusCommissionEmployee Class without Using Inheritance

Creating a CommissionEmployee-BasePlusCommissionEmployee Inheritance Hierarchy

CommissionEmployee-BasePlusCommissionEmployee Inheritance Hierarchy Using protected Instance Variables

CommissionEmployee-BasePlusCommissionEmployee Inheritance Hierarchy Using private Instance Variables

Class object

Lesson 12: Object-Oriented Programming: Polymorpishm

Lesson introduction

Demonstrating Polymorphic Behavior with the CommissionEmployee-BasePlusCommissionEmployee Hierarchy

Case Study: Payroll System Using Polymorphism

Creating Abstract Base Class Employee

Creating Concrete Derived Class SalariedEmployee

Creating Concrete Derived Class HourlyEmployee

Creating Concrete Derived Class CommissionEmployee

Creating Concrete Derived Class BasePlusCommissionEmployee

Polymorphic Processing, Operator is and Downcasting

Sealed Methods and Classes

Developing an IPayable Hierarchy

Declaring Interface IPayable

Creating Class Invoice

Modifying Class Employee to Implement Interface IPayable

Modifying Class SalariedEmployee for use with IPayable

Using Interface IPayable to Process Invoices and Employees Polymorphically

Operator Overloading

Lesson 13: Exception Handling: A Deeper Look

Lesson introduction

Example: Divide by Zero without Exception Handling

Example: Handling DivideByZeroExceptions and FormatExceptions

finally Block

The using Statement

Exception Properties

Programmer-Defined Exception Classes

Lesson 14: Graphical User Interfaces with Windows Forms: Part 1

Lesson introduction

Introduction to GUIs

A Simple Event-Driven GUI

Building the Simple Event Example and Viewing the Auto-Generated GUI Code

Delegates and the Event Handling Mechanism

Locating Event Information

Control Properties and Layout

Labels, TextBoxes and Buttons

GroupBoxes and Panels

CheckBoxes

RadioButtons

PictureBoxes

ToolTips

NumericIUpDown Control

Mouse-Event Handling

Keyboard-Event Handling

Lesson 15: Graphical User Interfaces with Windows Forms: Part 2

Lesson introduction

Menus

MonthCalendar Control

DateTimePicker Control

LinkLabel Control

ListBox Control

CheckedListBox Control

ComboBox Control

TreeView Control

ListView Control

TabControl Control

Multiple Document Interface (MDI) Windows

Visual Inheritance

User-Defined Controls

Part III

Introduction

Lesson 16: Strings and Chracters: A Deeper Look

Lesson introduction

string Constructors

string Indexer, Length property and CopyTo Method

Comparing strings

Determining Whether a String Begins or Ends with a Specified String

Locating Characters and Substrings in strings

Extracting Substrings from strings

Concatenating strings

Miscellaneous string Methods

Class StringBuilder Constructors

Length and Capacity Properties, EnsureCapacity Method and Indexer of Class StringBuilder

Append Method of Class StringBuilder

AppendFormat Method of Class StringBuilder

Insert and Remove Methods of Class StringBuilder

Replace Method of Class StringBuilder

Char Methods

Simple Regular Expressions and Class Regex

Regular-Expression Character Classes and Quantifiers

A More Complex Regular Expression

Validating User Input with Regular Expressions and LINQ

Regex Methods Replace and Split

Lesson 17: Files and Streams

Lesson introduction

Using Classes File and Directory

Using LINQ to Search Directories and Determine File Types

BankLibrary: Reusable Class BankUIForm

BankLibrary: Reusable Class Record

Creating and Writing to a Sequential-Access File

Reading Date from a Sequential-Access Text File

Case Study: Credit-Inquiry Program

BankLibrary: Class RecordSerializable

Creating a Sequential-Access File Using Object Serialization

Reading and Deserializing Data from a Binary File

Lesson 18: Generics

Lesson introduction

Motivation for Generic Methods

Generic-Method Implementation

Type Constraints

Generic Classes

Generic Methods That Receive Objects of Generic Classes as Arguments

Lesson 19: Collections

Lesson introduction

Class Array and Enumerators

Class ArrayList

Class Stack

Class ClassHashtable

Generic Class SortedDictionary

Generic Class LinkedList

Lesson 20: Databases and LINQ

Lesson introduction

Relational Databases

Books Database

Books Database: Entity-Relationship Diagram

LINQ to Entities and the ADO.NET Entity Framework

Querying a Database with LINQ: Demonstrating the Display Authors Table App

Querying a Database with LINQ: Creating the ADO.NET Entity Data Model Class Library

Querying a Database with LINQ: Creating a Windows Forms Project and Configuring It to Use the Entity Data Model

Querying a Database with LINQ: Data Bindings Between Controls and the Entity Data Model

Querying a Database with LINQ: Code for the Data Bindings Between Controls and the Entity Data Model

Dynamically Binding Query Results

Dynamically Binding Query Results: Creating the Display Query Results GUI

Dynamically Binding Query Results: Coding the App

Retrieving Data from Multiple Tables with LINQ

Creating a Master/Detail View App

Address Book Case Study

Address Book Case Study: Creating the GUI

Address Book Case Study: Coding the app

Lesson 21: Web App Development with ASP.NET

Lesson introduction

Web Basics

Multitier App Architecture

Testing Your First Web App

Building Your First Web App

Standard Web Controls

Validation Controls: Demo

Validation Controls

Session Tracking

Data Driven ASP.NET Guestbook: Demo

Data Driven ASP.NET Guestbook

Lesson 26: Asynchronous Programming with async and await

Lesson introduction

Basics of async and await

Introduction to the Fibonacci calculation used in Sections 26.3-26.5

Executing an Asynchronous Task from a GUI App

Sequential Execution of Two Compute Intensive Tasks

Asynchronous Execution of Two Compute Intensive Tasksp

Invoking a Flickr Web Service Asynchronously with WebClient