Microsoft Visual C# Step by Step

John Sharp is a principal technologist for CM Group Ltd, part of the Civica Group, a software development and consultancy company in the United Kingdom. He is well versed as a software consultant, developer, author, and trainer, with more than 35 years of experience, ranging from Pascal programming on CP/M and C/Oracle application development on various flavors of UNIX to the design of C# and JavaScript distributed applications and development on Windows 11 and Microsoft Azure. He also spends much of his time writing courseware for Microsoft, focusing on areas such as data science using R and Python, big data processing with Spark and CosmosDB, SQL Server, NoSQL, web services, Blazor, cross-platform development with frameworks such as Xamarin and MAUI, and scalable application architectures with Azure.

• IntroductionPART I INTRODUCING MICROSOFT VISUAL C# AND MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIOCHAPTER 1 Welcome to C#CHAPTER 2 Working with variables, operators, and expressionsCHAPTER 3 Writing methods and applying scopeCHAPTER 4 Using decision statementsCHAPTER 5 Using compound assignment and iteration statementsCHAPTER 6 Managing errors and exceptionsPART II UNDERSTANDING THE C# OBJECT MODELCHAPTER 7 Creating and managing classes and objectsCHAPTER 8 Understanding values and referencesCHAPTER 9 Creating value types with enumerations and structuresCHAPTER 10 Using arraysCHAPTER 11 Understanding parameter arraysCHAPTER 12 Working with inheritanceCHAPTER 13 Creating interfaces and defining abstract classesCHAPTER 14 Using garbage collection and resource managementPART III DEFINING EXTENSIBLE TYPES WITH C#CHAPTER 15 Implementing properties to access fieldsCHAPTER 16 Handling binary data and using indexersCHAPTER 17 Introducing genericsCHAPTER 18 Using collectionsCHAPTER 19 Enumerating collectionsCHAPTER 20 Decoupling application logic and handling eventsCHAPTER 21 Querying in-memory data by using query expressionsCHAPTER 22 Operator overloadingPART IV BUILDING UNIVERSAL WINDOWS PLATFORM APPLICATIONS WITH C#CHAPTER 23 Improving throughput by using tasksCHAPTER 24 Improving response time by performing asynchronous operationsCHAPTER 25 Implementing the user interface for a Universal Windows Platform appCHAPTER 26 Displaying and searching for data in a Universal Windows Platform appCHAPTER 27 Accessing a remote database from a Universal Windows Platform app