Microsoft® Visual C#® (2005) Step by Step by John Sharp

The popular, learn-by-doing tutorial—rewritten for the latest version of Visual C#. Teach yourself the fundamental techniques for creating working components and applications for Microsoft Windows®—one step at a time.
Teach yourself Visual C# 2005 fundamentals—one step at a time. With this practical, learn-by-doing tutorial, you get the guidance you need to start creating programs and components in C#!
Discover how to:

Work in the Visual Studio 2005 development environment

Declare variables, call methods, and create operators

Construct statements to selectively or repeatedly run your code

Catch and handle exception errors

Use object-oriented concepts to declare classes and objects

Write destructors to clean up unneeded code and help manage resources

Create reusable components, such as properties, indexers, and events

Define types and parameters for generics and generalized classes

Use Windows Forms to create user interfaces complete with user controls

Access data sources using Microsoft ADO.NET

Construct Web Forms that display large volumes of data

Validate user input with Microsoft ASP.NET controls

Write, test, and deploy Web services

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