Microsoft Visual C# Step by Step, 9th Edition

Your hands-on guide to Microsoft Visual C# fundamentals with Visual Studio 2017
Expand your expertise--and teach yourself the fundamentals of programming with the latest version of Visual C# with Visual Studio 2017. If you are an experienced software developer, you’ll get all the guidance, exercises, and code you need to start building responsive, scalable, cloud-connected applications that can run almost anywhere. .
Discover how to:

• Quickly start creating Visual C# code and projects with Visual Studio 2017 
• Work with variables, operators, expressions, methods, and program flow 
• Build more robust apps with error, exception, and resource management 
• Spot problems fast with the Visual Studio debugger 
• Make the most of improvements to C# methods, parameters, and switch statements 
• Master the C# object model, and create your own functional data structures 
• Leverage advanced properties, indexers, generics, and collection classes 
• Create Windows 10 apps that share data, collaborate, and use cloud services 
• Integrate Cortana to voice-enable your applications 
• Perform complex queries over object collections with LINQ 
• Improve application throughput and response time with asynchronous methods 
• Use delegates and decoupling to construct highly extensible systems 
• Customize C# operator behavior over your own classes and structures 
• Streamline development with app templates 
• Implement the powerful Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern 
• Develop cloud-connected applications that seamlessly follow users across devices 
• Build UWP applications that retrieve complex data via REST and present it intuitively 

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• PART I INTRODUCING MICROSOFT VISUAL C# AND MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO 2017
• 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
• PART II 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
• PART III DEFINING EXTENSIBLE TYPES WITH C#
• CHAPTER 15 Implementing properties to access fields
• CHAPTER 16 Handling binary data and 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
• PART IV BUILDING UNIVERSAL WINDOWS PLATFORM 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 Universal Windows Platform app
• CHAPTER 26 Displaying and searching for data in a Universal Windows Platform app
• CHAPTER 27 Accessing a remote database from a Universal Windows Platform app

Features

• The proven step-by-step, "learn by doing" introduction to Visual C#: popular with programmers worldwide, and now fully up-to-date
• Walk through building modern Windows applications that are both highly responsive and scalable
• Includes exercises and sample projects throughout, with "before" and "after" downloadable code
• For both new Visual C# programmers and millions of developers upgrading from older versions

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