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 Windows 10 and Universal Windows Platform applications with Visual C#.

Discover how to:

• Quickly start creating Visual C# code and projects with Visual Studio 2017
• Work with variables, operators, expressions, and methods
• Control program flow with decision and iteration statements
• Build more robust apps with error, exception, and resource management
• Master the essentials of Visual C# object-oriented programming
• Use enumerations, structures, generics, collections, indexers, and other advanced features
• Create in-memory data queries with LINQ query expressions
• Improve application throughput and response time with asynchronous methods
• Decouple application logic and event handling
• Streamline development with new app templates
• Implement the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern
• Build Universal Windows Platform apps that smoothly adapt to PCs, tablets, and Windows phones
• Integrate Microsoft Azure cloud databases and RESTful web services

Table of Contents

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