Your hands-on guide to Visual C# fundamentals

Expand your expertise—and teach yourself the fundamentals of Microsoft Visual C# 2013. If you have previous programming experience but are new to Visual C# 2013, this tutorial delivers the step-by-step guidance and coding exercises you need to master core topics and techniques.

Discover how to:
•    Create and debug C# applications in Visual Studio 2013
•    Work with variables, identifiers, statements, operators, and methods
•    Create interfaces and define abstract classes
•    Write robust code that can catch and handle exceptions
•    Display and edit data using data binding with the Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework
•    Respond to user input and touch screen gestures
•    Handle events arising from multiple sources
•    Develop your first Windows 8.1 apps

Part I: Introducing Microsoft Visual C# and Microsoft Visual Studio 2013

Chapter1: 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 and 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: 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: Operators overloading

Part IV Building Professional Windows 8.1 Applications with C#

Chapter 23: Improving throughput by using taks
Chapter 24: Improving response time by performing asynchronous operations
Chapter 25: Implementing the user interface for a Windows Store app
Chapter 26: Displaying and searching for data in a Windows Store app
Chapter 27: Accessing a remote database from a Windows Store app

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