C# for Beginners: Learn in 24 Hours

Book excerpt: This book is all about getting you started fast without the need to spend days or even weeks on trying to understand Csharp. This e-book eliminates the common fear of long and complex code that beginners usually face. It has picked some best illustration that is difficult to find anywhere at this price. After reading this book, you will find yourself playing with code on very same day. Exploring yourself to .NET technology is an additional benefit of this book. Readers would prefer using this small e-book as a reference guide to all basic fundamentals of C#; they are all nicely explained. Your prejudice towards coding will no longer be same after going through this e-book. C# is an object-oriented programming language based on C++. It is considered similar to Java, but some of its features are novel and not even found in Java. These includes nullable value types, enumerations, delegates, lambda expression, etc. These powerful features are very useful in building robust applications. If you are not in a position to attend a full-time course to learn these features. This e-book is a complete guide that covered key learning of Csharp Table of Contents Chapter 1: What is .NET Framework 1. What is the .NET Framework 2. Different versions of the .Net framework Chapter 2: Download and Install Visual Studio Chapter 3: Data Types 1. Building the first console application 2. Basic Data Types 3. Enumeration 4. Variables and Operators 5. Flow Control and conditional statements 6. Arrays Chapter 4: Class and Object 1. What are classes and objects 2. Fields and methods 3. Access Modifiers 4. Constructors 5. Inheritance 6. Polymorphism 7. Abstract classes 8. Interfaces Chapter 5: Collections 1. ArrayList 2. Stack 3. Queues 4. Hashtable Chapter 6: Windows Forms Application 1. Windows Forms Basics 2. Hello World in Windows Forms 3. Adding Controls to a form 4. Event Handling for Controls 5. Other Controls Chapter 7: Database Access 1. Fundamentals of Database connectivity 2. Connections in .Net 3. Accessing data 4. Inserting Records 5. Updating Records 6. Deleting Records 7. Connecting Controls to Data 8. Using DataGrids Chapter 8: File Operations 1. Basic File I/O Commands 2. Streams – Reading and Writing to files 3. Serialization