Karli Watson & Christian Nagel 
Beginning Visual C# 2010 

Update to Wrox’s leading C# book for beginners

Get ready for the next release of Microsoft’s C# programming
language with this essential Wrox beginner’s guide. Beginning
Microsoft Visual C# 2010 starts with the basics and brings you
thoroughly up to speed. You’ll first cover the fundamentals such as
variables, flow control, and object-oriented programming and
gradually build your skills for Web and Windows programming,
Windows forms, and data access.

Step-by-step directions walk you through processes and invite
you to ‘Try it Out, ‘ at every stage. By the end, you’ll be able to
write useful programming code following the steps you’ve learned in
this thorough, practical book.

* The C# 4 programming language version will be synonymous with
writing code with in C# 2010 in Visual Studio 2010, and you can use
it to write Windows applications, Web apps with ASP.NET, and
Windows Mobile and Embedded CE apps

* Provides step-by-step instructions for mastering topics such as
variables, flow controls, and object-oriented programming before
moving to Web and Windows programming and data access

* Addresses expressions, functions, debugging, error handling,
classes, collections, comparisons, conversions, and more

If you’ve always wanted to master Visual C# programming, this
book is the perfect one-stop resource.

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are
not included as part of e Book file.

Table of Content

INTRODUCTION xxxiii

PART I: THE C# LANGUAGE

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCING C# 3

CHAPTER 2: WRITING A C# PROGRAM 13

CHAPTER 3: VARIABLES AND EXPRESSIONS 31

CHAPTER 4: FLOW CONTROL 59

CHAPTER 5: MORE ABOUT VARIABLES 93

CHAPTER 6: FUNCTIONS 125

CHAPTER 7: DEBUGGING AND ERROR HANDLING 155

CHAPTER 8: INTRODUCTION TO OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING 185

CHAPTER 9: DEFINING CLASSES 209

CHAPTER 10: DEFINING CLASS MEMBERS 241

CHAPTER 11: COLLECTIONS, COMPARISONS, AND CONVERSIONS 277

CHAPTER 12: GENERICS 331

CHAPTER 13: ADDITIONAL OOP TECHNIQUES 373

CHAPTER 14: C# LANGUAGE ENHANCEMENTS 401

PART II: WINDOWS PROGRAMMING

CHAPTER 15: BASIC WINDOWS PROGRAMMING 447

CHAPTER 16: ADVANCED WINDOWS FORMS FEATURES 497

CHAPTER 17: DEPLOYING WINDOWS APPLICATIONS 533

PART III: WEB PROGRAMMING

CHAPTER 18: ASP.NET WEB PROGRAMMING 577

CHAPTER 19: WEB SERVICES 637

CHAPTER 20: DEPLOYING WEB APPLICATIONS 665

PART IV: DATA ACCESS

CHAPTER 21: FILE SYSTEM DATA 683

CHAPTER 22: XML 725

CHAPTER 23: INTRODUCTION TO LINQ 753

CHAPTER 24: APPLYING LINQ 795

PART V: ADDITIONAL TECHNIQUES

CHAPTER 25: WINDOWS PRESENTATION FOUNDATION 829

CHAPTER 26: WINDOWS COMMUNICATION FOUNDATION 899

CHAPTER 27: WINDOWS WORKFLOW FOUNDATION 935

APPENDIX A: EXERCISE SOLUTIONS 957

INDEX 1009

About the author

Karli Watson is an author and a consultant for Infusion.

Christian Nagel is an author, Microsoft Regional Director, and software architect with more than 20 years of experience.

Jacob Hammer Pedersen is an author and senior application developer at Elbek & Vejrup, Denmark.

Jon D. Reid is Software Engineering Manager at Metrix LLC.

Morgan Skinner is a consultant for Microsoft UK.

Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.