Microsoft Visual C# 2013 Step by Step

Your hands-on guide to Visual C# fundamentals Expand your expertise-and teach yourself the fundamentals of Microsoft Visual C# 2013. If you have previous programming experience but are new to Visual C# 2013, this tutorial delivers the step-by-step guidance and coding exercises you need to master core topics and techniques. Discover how to: Create and debug C# applications in Visual Studio 2013 Work with variables, identifiers, statements, operators and methods Create interfaces and define abstract classes Write robust code that can catch and handle exceptions Display and edit data using data binding with the Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework Respond to user input and touch screen gestures Handle events arising from multiple sources Develop your first Windows 8.1 apps Table of Contents: Part I: Introducing Microsoft Visual C# and Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Chapter1: Welcome to C# Chapter 2: Working with variables, operators and expressions Chapter 3: Writing methods and applying scope Chapter 4: Using decision statements Chapter 5: Using compound assignment and iteration statements Chapter 6: Managing errors and exceptions Part II: Understanding the C# Object Model Chapter 7: Creating and managing classes and objects Chapter 8: Understanding values and references Chapter 9: Creating value types and with enumerations and structures Chapter 10: Using arrays Chapter 11: Understanding parameter arrays Chapter 12: Working with inheritance Chapter 13: Creating interfaces and defining abstract classes Chapter 14: Using garbage collection and resource management Part III: Defining Extensible Types with C# Chapter 15: Implementing properties to access fields Chapter 16: Using indexers Chapter 17: Introducing generics Chapter 18: Using collections Chapter 19: Enumerating collections Chapter 20: Decoupling application logic and handling events Chapter 21: Querying in-memory data by using query expressions Chapter 22: Operators overloading Part IV: Building Professional Windows 8.1 Applications with C# Chapter 23: Improving throughput by using taks Chapter 24: Improving response time by performing asynchronous operations Chapter 25: Implementing the user interface for a Windows Store app Chapter 26: Displaying and searching for data in a Windows Store app Chapter 27: Accessing a remote database from a Windows Store app Index