Your hands-on guide to Visual C# fundamentals

Expand your expertise—and teach yourself the fundamentals of Microsoft Visual C# 2013. If you have previous programming experience but are new to Visual C# 2013, this tutorial delivers the step-by-step guidance and coding exercises you need to master core topics and techniques.

Discover how to:

• Create and debug C# applications in Visual Studio 2013
• Work with variables, identifiers, statements, operators, and methods
• Create interfaces and define abstract classes
• Write robust code that can catch and handle exceptions
• Display and edit data using data binding with Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework
• Respond to user input and touchscreen gestures
• Handle events arising from multiple sources
• Develop your first Windows 8.1 apps

John Sharp is a principal technologist at Content Master, part of CM Group Ltd, a technical authoring and consulting company. An expert on developing applications with the Microsoft .NET Framework and interoperability issues, John has produced numerous tutorials, white papers, and presentations on distributed systems, Web services, and the C# language. He is the author of several popular books, including Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation Step By Step and Microsoft Visual C# Step By Step.

• Introduction
• Introducing Microsoft Visual C# and Microsoft Visual Studio 2013
  • Chapter 1: Welcome to C#
  • Chapter 2: Working with variables, operators, and expressions
  • Chapter 3: Writing methods and applying scope
  • Chapter 4: Using decision statements
  • Chapter 5: Using compound assignment and iteration statements
  • Chapter 6: Managing errors and exceptions
• Understanding the C# object model
  • Chapter 7: Creating and managing classes and objects
  • Chapter 8: Understanding values and references
  • Chapter 9: Creating value types with enumerations and structures
  • Chapter 10: Using arrays
  • Chapter 11: Understanding parameter arrays
  • Chapter 12: Working with inheritance
  • Chapter 13: Creating interfaces and defining abstract classes
  • Chapter 14: Using garbage collection and resource management
• Defining extensible types with C#
  • Chapter 15: Implementing properties to access fields
  • Chapter 16: Using indexers
  • Chapter 17: Introducing generics
  • Chapter 18: Using collections
  • Chapter 19: Enumerating collections
  • Chapter 20: Decoupling application logic and handling events
  • Chapter 21: Querying in-memory data by using query expressions
  • Chapter 22: Operator overloading
• Building professional Windows 8.1 applications with C#
  • Chapter 23: Improving throughput by using tasks
  • Chapter 24: Improving response time by performing asynchronous operations
  • Chapter 25: Implementing the user interface for a Windows Store app
  • Chapter 26: Displaying and searching for data in a Windows Store app
  • Chapter 27: Accessing a remote database from a Windows Store app
• About the author