Learning C#

Jesse Liberty is the best selling author of Programming ASP.NET, Programming C SHARP, and a dozen other books on web and object oriented programming. He is president of Liberty Associates, Inc., where he provides contract programming, consulting and on-site training in ASP.NET, C SHARP, C++ and related topics. Jesse has been a Distinguished Software Engineer at AT&T and Vice President for technology development at CitiBank.

Preface 1. C SHARP and .NET Programming C SHARP and .NET The .NET Platform The .NET Framework The C SHARP Language The Structure of C SHARP Applications The Development Environment 2. Getting Started with C SHARP What's in a Program? Your First Program: Hello World Examining Your First Program 3. Object-Oriented Programming Creating Models Classes and Objects Defining a Class Class Relationships The Three Pillars of Object-Oriented Programming Encapsulation Specialization Polymorphism Object-Oriented Analysis and Design 4. Visual Studio .NET Start Page Inside the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) IntelliSense Building and Running For More Information 5. C SHARP Language Fundamentals Types Variables Definite Assignment Constants Strings Statements Expressions Whitespace 6. Branching Unconditional Branching Statements Conditional Branching Statements Iteration (Looping) Statements 7. Operators The Assignment Operator (=) Mathematical Operators Increment and Decrement Operators Relational Operators 8. Classes and Objects Defining Classes Method Arguments Constructors Initializers Copy Constructors The this Keyword Static and Instance Members Destroying Objects 9. Inside Methods Overloading Methods Encapsulating Data with Properties Returning Multiple Values 10. Basic Debugging Setting a Breakpoint The Call Stack 11. Inheritance and Polymorphism Specialization and Generalization Inheritance Polymorphism Abstract Classes Sealed Classes The Root of All Classes: Object Boxing and Unboxing Types 12. Operator Overloading Using the operator Keyword Creating Useful Operators Logical Pairs Conversion Operators 13. Structs Defining a Struct 14. Interfaces Implementing an Interface Implementing More Than One Interface Casting to an Interface Extending Interfaces Combining Interfaces Overriding Interface Implementations Explicit Interface Implementation 15. Arrays Arrays Multidimensional Arrays System.Array Indexers 16. Collection Interfaces and Types The Collection Interfaces Array Lists Queues Stacks Copying from a Collection Type to an Array 17. Strings Creating Strings Manipulating Strings Regular Expressions The Regex Class 18. Throwing and Catching Exceptions Throwing Exceptions Searching for an Exception Handler The throw Statement The try and catch Statements How the Call Stack Works Creating Dedicated catch Statements The finally Statement Exception Class Methods and Properties Custom Exceptions 19. Delegates and Events Delegates Multicasting Events 20. Afterword Where to Go from Here Advanced Topics in C SHARP Web (ASP.NET) Programming Windows Forms Programming Other Resources C SHARP Keywords Index