Beginning Microsoft Visual C# 2008

The book is aimed at novice programmers who wish to learn programming with C# and the .NET framework. The book starts with absolute programming basics. It then moves into Web and Windows programming, data access (databases and XML), and more advanced technologies such as graphics programming with GDI+ and basic networking. The book makes complicated subjects seem easy to learn, and it inspires readers to investigate areas further on their own by providing references to additional material, and exercise questions that require significant effort and personal research to complete.

Table of contents :
Introduction
Part I: The C# Language
· Introducing C#
· Writing a C# Program
· Variables and Expressions
· Flow Control
· More about Variables
· Functions
· Debugging and Error Handling
· Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming
· Defining Classes
· Defining Class Members
· Collections, Comparisons, and Conversions
· Generics
· Additional OOP Techniques
· C# 3.0 Language Enhancements

Part II: Windows Programming
· Basic Windows Programming
· Advanced Windows Forms Features
· Using Common Dialogs
· Deploying Windows Applications

Part III: Web Programming
· Basic Web Programming
· Advanced Web Programming
· Web Services

· Ajax Programming
· Deploying Web Applications

Part IV: Data Access
· File System Data
· XML
· Introduction to LINQ
· LINQ to SQL
· ADO.NET and LINQ over DataSet
· LINQ to XML

Part V: Additional Techniques
· Attributes
· XML Documentation
· Networking
· Introduction to GDI+
· Windows Presentation Foundation
· Windows Communication Foundation
· Windows Workflow Foundation

Index


Market Description :
This book is aimed at novice programmers who are interested in C# and the .NET Framework. It is also for programmers who know .NET, but are interested in learning the drastically revised .NET 3.5, or 2008 release of Visual Studio.

About Author :
Karli Watson is a freelance author and the technical director of 3form Ltd. Karli received his degree in nanoscale physics, but soon found himself immersed in the world of computing. He joined Wrox Press as a technical editor on the C++ team, and became a fulltime in-house author. He wrote many of the Wrox flagship titles on .NET topics. He has written over 20 books on .NET and related technologies.