Table of Contents

VISUAL C# 2012 HOW TO PROGRAM

Table of Contents

1 Introduction to Computers, the Internet and Visual C#
2 Dive Into® Visual Studio
3 Introduction to C# Apps
4 Introduction to Classes, Objects, Methods and Strings
5 Control Statements: Part 1
6 Control Statements: Part 2
7 Methods: A Deeper Look
8 Arrays; Introduction to Exception Handling 
9 Introduction to LINQ and the List Collection
10 Classes and Objects: A Deeper Look
11 Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance   
12 OOP: Polymorphism, Interfaces and Operator Overloading
13 Exception Handling: A Deeper Look
14 Graphical User Interfaces with Windows Forms: Part 1
15 Graphical User Interfaces with Windows Forms: Part 2
16 Strings and Characters
17 Files and Streams  
18 Databases and LINQ
19 Web App Development with ASP.NET
20 Searching and Sorting
21 Data Structures
22 Generics
23 Collections
24 Windows 8 UI
25 Windows 8 Graphics and Multimedia

A Operator Precedence Chart   
B Simple Types
C ASCII Character Set
Index

ONLINE CHAPTERS AND APPENDICES
26 Windows Phone 8 Case Study   
27 Windows Azure Cloud Computing Case Study    

28 Introduction to Concurrency: async and await
29 XML and LINQ to XML
30 Web App Development with ASP.NET: A Deeper Look
31 Web Services 

32  GUI with Windows Presentation Foundation     
33 WPF Graphics and Multimedia 
34 ATM Case Study, Part 1: Object-Oriented Design with the UML
35 ATM Case Study, Part 2: Implementing an Object-Oriented Design

D Number Systems
E UML 2: Additional Diagram Types
F Unicode®
G Using the Visual Studio Debugger

About the Author

Paul Deitel, CEO and Chief Technical Officer of Deitel & Associates, Inc., is a graduate of MIT, where he studied Information Technology. Through Deitel & Associates, Inc., he has delivered hundreds of programming courses to industry clients, including Cisco, IBM, Siemens, Sun Microsystems, Dell, Fidelity, NASA at the Kennedy Space Center, the

National Severe Storm Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, Rogue Wave Software, Boeing, SunGard Higher Education, Nortel Networks, Puma, iRobot, Invensys and many more. He and his co-author, Dr. Harvey M. Deitel, are the world’s best-selling programming- language textbook/professional book/video authors.

Paul was named as a Microsoft® Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for C# in 2012. According to Microsoft, “the Microsoft MVP Award is an annual award that recognizes exceptional technology community leaders worldwide who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with users and Microsoft.”

Dr. Harvey Deitel, Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of Deitel & Associates, Inc., has 50 years of experience in the computer field. Dr. Deitel earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Boston University. He has extensive college teaching experience, including earning tenure and serving as the Chairman of the Computer Science Department at Boston College before founding Deitel & Associates, Inc., in 1991 with his son, Paul Deitel. The Deitels’ publications have earned international recognition, with translations published in Chinese, Korean, Japanese, German, Russian, Spanish, French, Polish, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, Urdu and

Turkish. Dr. Deitel has delivered hundreds of programming courses to corporate, academic, government and military clients.