Beginning C# 6 Programming with Visual Studio 2015

About the authors Benjamin Perkins is Senior Support Escalation Engineer at Microsoft, and an avid C# programmer with 15 years experience in enterprise-level IT solutions. Jacob Vibe Hammer is a software engineer at Terma and co-author of a number of .NET books. Jon D. Reid is a Product Solution Manager for IFS R&D (www.ifsworld.com) where he develops in C# for the Microsoft environment.

INTRODUCTION xix PART I: THE OOP LANGUAGE CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCING C# 3 What Is the .NET Framework? 4 What s in the .NET Framework? 4 Writing Applications Using the .NET Framework 5 What Is C#? 8 Applications You Can Write with C# 9 C# in this Book 10 Visual Studio 2015 10 Visual Studio Express 2015 Products 10 Solutions 11 CHAPTER 2: WRITING A C# PROGRAM 13 The Visual Studio 2015 Development Environment 14 Console Applications 17 The Solution Explorer 20 The Properties Window 21 The Error List Window 22 Desktop Applications 22 CHAPTER 3: VARIABLES AND EXPRESSIONS 29 Basic C# Syntax 30 Basic C# Console Application Structure 33 Variables 34 Simple Types 34 Variable Naming 39 Literal Values 39 Expressions 42 Mathematical Operators 42 Assignment Operators 47 Operator Precedence 48 Namespaces 49 CHAPTER 4: FLOW CONTROL 53 Boolean Logic 54 Boolean Bitwise and Assignment Operators 56 Operator Precedence Updated 58 Branching 59 The Ternary Operator 59 The if Statement 59 The switch Statement 63 Looping 66 do Loops 66 while Loops 69 for Loops 71 Interrupting Loops 72 Infinite Loops 73 CHAPTER 5: MORE ABOUT VARIABLES 77 Type Conversion 78 Implicit Conversions 78 Explicit Conversions 80 Explicit Conversions Using the Convert Commands 83 Complex Variable Types 85 Enumerations 85 Structs 89 Arrays 92 String Manipulation 99 CHAPTER 6: FUNCTIONS 107 Defining and Using Functions 108 Return Values 110 Parameters 112 Variable Scope 119 Variable Scope in Other Structures 122 Parameters and Return Values versus Global Data 123 The Main() Function 125 Struct Functions 127 Overloading Functions 128 Using Delegates 130 CHAPTER 7: DEBUGGING AND ERROR HANDLING 135 Debugging in Visual Studio 136 Debugging in Nonbreak (Normal) Mode 136 Debugging in Break Mode 144 Error Handling 153 try catch finally 153 Listing and Configuring Exceptions 160 CHAPTER 8: INTRODUCTION TO OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING 163 What Is Object-Oriented Programming? 164 What Is an Object? 165 Everything s an Object 168 The Life Cycle of an Object 168 Static and Instance Class Members 169 OOP Techniques 170 Interfaces 171 Inheritance 172 Polymorphism 175 Relationships between Objects 177 Operator Overloading 179 Events 180 Reference Types versus Value Types 180 OOP in Desktop Applications 180 CHAPTER 9: DEFINING CLASSES 187 Class Definitions in C# 188 Interface Definitions 190 System.Object 193 Constructors and Destructors 195 Constructor Execution Sequence 196 OOP Tools in Visual Studio 200 The Class View Window 200 The Object Browser 202 Adding Classes 203 Class Diagrams 204 Class Library Projects 206 Interfaces versus Abstract Classes 209 Struct Types 212 Shallow Copying versus Deep Copying 214 CHAPTER 10: DEFINING CLASS MEMBERS 217 Member Definitions 218 Defining Fields 218 Defining Methods 219 Defining Properties 220 Refactoring Members 225 Automatic Properties 226 Additional Class Member Topics 227 Hiding Base Class Methods 227 Calling Overridden or Hidden Base Class Methods 229 Using Nested Type Defi nitions 230 Interface Implementation 232 Implementing Interfaces in Classes 233 Partial Class Definitions 235 Partial Method Definitions 237 Example Application 238 Planning the Application 238 Writing the Class Library 239 A Client Application for the Class Library 246 The Call Hierarchy Window 248 CHAPTER 11: COLLECTIONS, COMPARISONS, AND CONVERSIONS 251 Collections 252 Using Collections 253 Defining Collections 258 Indexers 259 Adding a Cards Collection to CardLib 262