Sams Teach Yourself Visual C# 2008 in 24 Hours

Paperback: 528 pages
Publisher: Sams; 1 edition (June 28, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0672329905
ISBN-13: 978-0672329906
Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.9 x 1.3 inches







Sams Teach Yourself Visual C#® 2008 in 24 Hours

James Foxall

In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you will be up and running with Visual C# 2008. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds upon the previous one, allowing you to learn the essentials of Visual C# from the ground up.

By the Way notes present interesting pieces of information.

Did You Know? tips offer advice or teach an easier way to do something.

Watch Out! cautions advise you about potential problems and help you steer clear of disaster.


Learn how to...
Use the powerful design environment of Visual Studio 2008
Design a feature-rich interface using components such as tree views and tabs
Create robust applications using modern error handling
Draw fast graphics using GDI+
Build a database application using ADO.NET
Distribute a Visual C# 2008 application



James Foxall is vice president of Tigerpaw Software, Inc. (www.tigerpawsoftware.com), a Bellevue, Nebraska, Microsoft Certified Partner specializing in commercial database applications. He manages the development, support, training, and education of Tigerpaw CRM+, an award-winning application that automates contact management, marketing, service and repair, proposal generation, inventory control, and purchasing. Tigerpaw has more than 20,000 licensed users in 27 countries. Foxall’s experience in creating certified Office-compatible software has made him an authority on application interface and behavior standards. In addition to being a well-known author, James is an international speaker on Microsoft technologies, has taught at the college level, and contributes to several journals.

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Category: Microsoft Programming

Covers: Visual C# 2008

User Level: Beginning

User Review:
Foxall gives us a quick coverage of C#, well suited to a neophyte. The book seems equally divided between the explanations of graphics and non-graphics. The latter means traditional aspects of any programming language, as in the use of if-else, while and for loops. Here, you might as well be studying C in 1980. These are fundamental constructs that any language needs.

What is perhaps more distinctive of C# are the graphic components, widgets. Foxall shows how to quickly write short programs that can make a few widgets and lay them out in a window for the user to interact with. En route, he teaches about event driven programming, where if you use graphics, the user can interact with the program in many ways. Hence the structuring of code to handle this is quite different from programs lacking a GUI. The use of widgets also lends itself well to you understanding object oriented coding.

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