C# 5.0 All-in-One For Dummies

Introduction 1Book I: The 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 71Chapter 5: Getting into the Program Flow 83Chapter 6: Lining Up Your Ducks with Collections 107Chapter 7: Stepping through Collections133Chapter 8: Buying Generic 159Chapter 9: Some Exceptional Exceptions 181Book II: Object-Oriented C# Programming 201Chapter 1: Object-Oriented Programming -- What's It All About? 203Chapter 2: Showing Some Class 211Chapter 3: We Have Our Methods 223Chapter 4: Let Me Say This about this 243Chapter 5: Holding a Class Responsible 257Chapter 6: Inheritance: Is That All I Get? 281Chapter 7: Poly-what-ism? 303Chapter 8: Interfacing with the Interface 329Chapter 9: Delegating Those Important Events 353Chapter 10: Can I Use Your Namespace in the Library? 373Chapter 11: Improving Productivity with Named and Optional Parameters 395Book III: Designing for C# 403Chapter 1: Writing Secure Code 405Chapter 2: Accessing Data 417Chapter 3: Fishing the FileStream 437Chapter 4: Accessing the Internet 457Chapter 5: Creating Images471Chapter 6: Programming Dynamically! 481Chapter 7: Helping Out with Interop 493Book IV: A Tour of Visual Studio 499Chapter 1: Getting Started with Visual Studio 501Chapter 2: Using the Interface 517Chapter 3: Customizing Visual Studio 541Chapter 4: Transforming Text Templates557Book V: Windows Development with WPF 565Chapter 1: Introducing WPF 567Chapter 2: Understanding the Basics of WPF577Chapter 3: Data Binding in WPF 601Chapter 4: Practical WPF 623Book VI: Web Development with ASPNET 649Chapter 1: Looking at How ASPNET Works with C# 651Chapter 2: Building Web Applications 663Chapter 3: Controlling Your Development Experience 677Chapter 4: Leveraging the NET Framework 705Chapter 5: Digging into Web Construction 723Book VII: Service-Oriented Development 737Chapter 1: Getting Acquainted with

Bill Sempf is a veteran programmer specializing in object-oriented programming. He is the author of Visual Basic 2005 For Dummies. Chuck Sphar was senior technical writer for the Visual C++ product group at Microsoft. Stephen Randy Davis is the author of C++ For Dummies and works for L-3 Communications.