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Beginning Visual C# 2005 Express Edition

From Novice to Professional

Apress

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  • Written by Peter Wright, who taught 100,000 new programmers how to program in Visual Basic when Microsoft last launched a new product so suitable for new/hobbyist and aspirant programmers. The same Peter Wright style today makes this book the best Express tutorial available
  • Covers all the key features of Express C# in a friendly, accessible style, and opens up a whole range of exciting continuation products in the Apress roadmaps for when the new programmers wants to continue their journey
  • C# is the language of the future and a lot of aspirant programmers are going to choose C# as their entry-point into programming. This book serves that new community of programmers and presents a first-class author to guide them
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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
  2. The Basics of C#

    Pages 31-56
  3. Handling Exceptions

    Pages 139-148
  4. Windows and Dialogs

    Pages 203-233
  5. Lists

    Pages 235-261
  6. Menus and Toolbars

    Pages 263-281
  7. Lists and Generics

    Pages 295-318
  8. Files and Streams

    Pages 319-338
  9. Working with XML

    Pages 339-364
  10. Database Programming

    Pages 365-396
  11. Threading

    Pages 427-440
  12. Where to Now?

    Pages 441-448

About this book

In the 1990s, Microsoft did the impossible and released a programming tool that let everyone write programs to run on Windows. Author Peter Wright was so excited about that tool, Visual Basic, that he wrote a series of books on it and introduced nearly a quarter of a million people all over the world to programming.

Now Microsoft has done it again with the release of the Express tools. With nearly every home now having a computer and most people having access to the Internet, being able to take control of the computer and write your own programs is more useful and exciting than ever. So Wright has decided to do it again.

In this book, you'll find everything you need to program your computer by using Visual C# 2005 Express, one of the very latest programming tools from Microsoft. If you have never written computer programs before, Wright will show you how much fun and how easy it can be. Perhaps you are a programmer and just need to get up to speed on .NET for work—this book is for you too.

Wright took the same approach with this book that he did with the VB titles, and inside you'll find a fast–paced guide to the essentials to get you programming fast. You'll learn the C# language and the tools Visual C# 2005 Express provides. He covers everything from simple console programs to code that talks to the Internet, and even how to write your own database programs. Whatever your reasons for wanting to learn to program with C#, this book will get you where you want to be quickly, and hopefully with a smile on your face. So dive in and change the way you use computers forever.

About the author

Peter Wright has been programming with, and writing about, Microsoft development tools since 1992. He is the author of about a dozen books, including the international best selling series, Beginning Visual Basic, and has written numerous articles for the both the print and online press worldwide. Born in England, Peter now lives in Florida along with his wife, 2 kids, and 2 fluffy attack spaniels called Mac and Tosh.

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Softcover Book USD 29.99
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