Microsoft Visual C# 2005

Build a software programsuch as your own Web browser or weather-reporting applicationwithout any programming experience! Featuring learn-by-doing projects and plenty of visual examples, this hands-on book is your quick start to creating applications for Microsoft Windows.Have fun as you discover how to: Design a rich user interface with easy-to-use tools 'Drag and drop text boxes, buttons, and other controls into your application Add database and reporting capabilities Exploit features that reduce the amount of code you write Find and fix any bugs Roll-out and share your application CD Includes: Visual C# 2005 Express Edition Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition....

Get the essential, straightforward information you need to master the core capabilities of Visual C# 2005. Both new and experienced developers get expert guidance, hands-on programming instruction, and practical examples to help advance their proficiency in developing applications for Microsoft Windows and the Web.Discover how to: Refine class usage with inheritance, polymorphism, and other strategies Implement generics to define a type-safe data structure Work with stacks, queues, arrays, dictionaries, and other collections Use iterators to implement and standardize enumerator patterns Know when to catch exceptionsand handle them locally or propagate them Interrogate metadata and facilitate late binding by using reflection Synchronize threads with ...

If you want to build custom controls with C# but you don't know where to start, or you are intimidated by the huge amount of information that needs to be absorbed, then this book is for you. This friendly tutorial is based on numerous examples with real-world applicability, and includes a case study featuring the development of a fully functional PieChart control. Showing you how to use the free Visual C# 2005 Express Edition environment to develop your controls, GDI+ Custom Controls with Visual C# 2005 will teach you how to create professional, reusable custom controls for your desktop applications in no time. This book has been written with the intermediate C# developer in mind. Assuming a working knowledge of C#, the book teaches you how to implem...