9781509301041

Your hands-on guide to Microsoft Visual C# fundamentals with Visual Studio 2015
Expand your expertise--and teach yourself the fundamentals of programming with the latest version of Visual C# with Visual Studio 2015. If you are an experienced software developer, you’ll get all the guidance, exercises, and code you need to start building responsive, scalable Windows 10 and Universal Windows Platform applications with Visual C#.

Discover how to:

Quickly start creating Visual C# code and projects with Visual Studio 2015
Work with variables, operators, expressions, and methods
Control program flow with decision and iteration statements
Build more robust apps with error, exception, and resource management
Master the essentials of Visual C# object-oriented programming
Use enumerations, structures, generics, collections, indexers, and other advanced features
Create in-memory data queries with LINQ query expressions
Improve application throughput and response time with asynchronous methods
Decouple application logic and event handling
Streamline development with new app templates
Implement the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern
Build Universal Windows Platform apps that smoothly adapt to PCs, tablets, and Windows phones
Integrate Microsoft Azure cloud databases and RESTful web services

About You

For software developers who are new to Visual C# or who are upgrading from older versions
Readers should have experience with at least one programming language
No prior Microsoft .NET or Visual Studio development experience required

John Sharp is a principal technologist at Content Master, part of CM Group Ltd., a technical authoring and consulting company based in Gloucester, in the UK. An expert on developing Microsoft .NET applications, he has created many tutorials, white papers, and presentations on distributed systems, web services, cloud applications, and the C# language. He is the author of Windows Communication Foundation Step by Step and helped develop Microsoft Certification Course 70-480: Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3.

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

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Microsoft Visual C# Step by Step

Microsoft Visual C# Step by Step

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