C# Bible

Jeff Ferguson is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD) with over 10 years of professional software development experience. Jeff is a Senior Consultant for Magenic Technologies, a Microsoft Certified Solutions Provider Partner whose clients include Microsoft themselves. Jeff has extensive experience in n--tier application development with Visual C++, ASP, SQL Server and other related technologies, and has been working with the new C# language since the early pre--beta stages. Jeff is active in the .NET developer community, and is a contributor to The Visual C++ Developer's Journal, a popular programmer's magazine. Brian Patterson currently work for Affina, Inc., as a Technical Team Leader, where he is generally working with C++ on HP--UX or Windows development with any number of the Visual Studio languages. Jason Beres has been a software developer for 10 years. He is currently a consultant in South Florida and works exclusively with Microsoft technologies. Pierre Boutquin is a senior software architect in the treasury of a major Canadian bank, where he helps develop leading--edge market risk management software. Meeta Gupta has a master's degree in computer engineering. She is presently working at NIIT Ltd., where she designs, develops, and authors books on a varied range of subjects.

Preface. Acknowledgments. PART I: C# Language Fundamentals. Chapter 1: An Introduction to C#. Chapter 2: Writing Your First C# Program. Chapter 3: Working with Variables. Chapter 4: Expressions. Chapter 5: Controlling the Flow of Your Code. Chapter 6: Working with Methods. Chapter 7: Grouping Data Using Structures. PART II: Object-Oriented Programming with C#. Chapter 8: Writing Object-Oriented Code. Chapter 9: C# Classes. Chapter 10: Overloading Operators. Chapter 11: Class Inheritance. PART III: Advanced C#. Chapter 12: Working with Namespaces. Chapter 13: Understanding Interfaces. Chapter 14: Enumerations. Chapter 15: Events and Delegates. Chapter 16: Handling Exceptions. Chapter 17: Working with Attributes. Chapter 18: Versioning Your Classes. Chapter 19: Working with Unsafe Code. Chapter 20: Understanding Advanced C# Constructs. PART IV: Developing .NET Solutions Using C#. Chapter 21: Building WindowsForms Applications. Chapter 22: Creating Web Applications with WebForms. Chapter 23: Database Programming with ADO.NET. Chapter 24: Working with Files and the Windows Registry. Chapter 25: Accessing Data Streams. Chapter 26: Drawing with GDI+. Chapter 27: Building Web Services. Chapter 28: Using C# in ASP.NET. Chapter 29: Building Custom Controls. Chapter 30: Building Mobile Applications. PART V: C# and the .NET Framework. Chapter 31: Working with Assemblies. Chapter 32: Reflection. Chapter 33: C# Threading. Chapter 34: Working with COM. Chapter 35: Working with COM+ Services. Chapter 36: Working with .NET Remoting. Chapter 37: C# and .NET Security. Appendix: XML Primer. Index.