C# 2010 All-in-One For Dummies: 8 Books in 1

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About the Authors
Hi, my name is Bill Sempf, and I am a software architect. Although I used to
hate the term architect, it’s clearly the only thing out there that defi nes what
I do. My breadth of experience includes business and technical analysis,
software design, development, testing, server management and maintenance,
and security. In my 17 years of professional experience, I have participated
in the creation of well over 200 applications for large and small companies,
managed the software infrastructure of two Internet service providers,
coded complex software happily in every environment imaginable, and made
mainframes talk to cellphones. In short, I make the technology products that
people are using every day play nicely together.
I started playing with computers in 1979 and haven’t looked back since. In
1985 I was helping my father (also named Bill) manage Apple IIe systems at
the local library. Since then I have built applications for the likes of Bank
One, Lucent Technologies, Nationwide Insurance, and Sears, Roebuck and
Co. I am the author of Visual Basic 2008 For Dummies and Visual Basic 2005
For Dummies; a coauthor of Effective Visual Studio.NET, Professional ASP.
NET Web Services, and Professional VB.NET; a frequent contributor to MSDN,
Builder.com, Hardcore Web Services, Cloud Computing Journal, Inside Web
Development Journal, and Intranet Journal; and have recently been an invited
speaker for the ACM and IEEE, DevEssentials, the International XML Web
Services Expo, and the Association of Information Technology Professionals.
I am a graduate of The Ohio State University with a bachelor’s of science
degree in business administration, a Microsoft Certifi ed Professional, a
Certifi ed Internet Business Strategist, and a Certifi ed Internet Webmaster. My
company is Products Of Innovative New Technology (usually called POINT),
and you can reach me at [email protected].
Chuck Sphar escaped the Microsoft C++ documentation camps after six
years of hard labor as a senior technical writer. You can reach Chuck for
praise and minor nits at [email protected]. His C# material Web
page (references throughout the book) is csharp102.info.
Stephen R. Davis, who goes by the name Randy, lives with his wife and son
near Dallas, Texas.
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Dedication
This book goes to the active community of Microsoft developers that I get
to work with every day. Thanks for your commitment to getting things done
right, sharing what you know, and having a good time doing it.
Also, for Gabrielle and Adam, who had to put up with another six months of
Daddy hiding in the basement.
—Sempf
Acknowledgments
A lot of people work to make a book of this size. Don’t think, just because the
authors are listed on the front page, that they conceived every idea in the
book. It takes a community.
First, thanks to Chuck Sphar and Randy Davis for the fantastic source mate-
rial that is the backbone of this book. I learned much just editing the fi rst two
minibooks for use in this All-in-One. Also, thanks to Katie Feltman and Chris
Morris for their editorial expertise.
A number of community members had a huge part in the creation of this book.
Carey Payette and Phil Japikse built Book V (about WPF) basically from the
goodness of their hearts, and I couldn’t have completed it without them — my
WPF skills aren’t worth writing about. These two get the award for Biggest
Contribution, and I thank them both.
The developers at Information Control Corporation were also essential in for-
mulating the initial scope of this book and then fact-checking the details. Steve
Webb, Stephen Giffi n, John Hannah, Larry Beall, Michael Birchmeyer, and Azher
Muhammad all had a big part, especially in the information related specifi cally to
C# 4.0. Thanks to them and all the other ICC experts who gave me ideas and tips.
Kevin Pilch-Bisson at Microsoft provided some C# clarity via Twitter through-
out the scope of this book. Steve Andrews provided the structure for the
T4 chapter in Book IV. Mads Torgerson reviewed the table of contents, and
I thank him for the “It looks delicious” phrase, which I think was my most
quoted phrase of the year.
Lars Corneliussen provided a few choice pointers for the book, and Julie
Lerman’s Entity Framework writing was the basis of my own additions to the
ADO.NET chapter.
As always, thanks to my wife, Gabrielle, for her support. Sometimes I just
can’t believe how lucky I am.
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Contents at a Glance
Introduction ................................................................ 1
Book I: Basics of C# Programming ................................ 9
Chapter 1: Creating Your First C# Console Application .............................................11
Chapter 2: Living with Variability — Declaring Value-Type Variables .....................25
Chapter 3: Pulling Strings ...............................................................................................45
Chapter 4: Smooth Operators ........................................................................................73
Chapter 5: Getting Into the Program Flow ....................................................................85
Chapter 6: Lining Up Your Ducks with Collections ...................................................109
Chapter 7: Stepping through Collections....................................................................135
Chapter 8: Buying Generic ............................................................................................169
Chapter 9: Some Exceptional Exceptions ...................................................................187
Book II: Object-Oriented C# Programming ................. 205
Chapter 1: Object-Oriented Programming: What’s It All About? .............................207
Chapter 2: Showing Some Class ...................................................................................215
Chapter 3: We Have Our Methods ...............................................................................227
Chapter 4: Let Me Say This about this......................................................................247
Chapter 5: Holding a Class Responsible .....................................................................261
Chapter 6: Inheritance: Is That All I Get? ....................................................................285
Chapter 7: Poly-what-ism? ............................................................................................307
Chapter 8: Interfacing with the Interface ....................................................................333
Chapter 9: Delegating Those Important Events .........................................................357
Chapter 10: Can I Use Your Namespace in the Library? ...........................................377
Book III: Designing for C# ........................................ 399
Chapter 1: Writing Secure Code ...................................................................................401
Chapter 2: Accessing Data ............................................................................................415
Chapter 3: Fishing the FileStream ................................................................................435
Chapter 4: Accessing the Internet ...............................................................................455
Chapter 5: Creating Images...........................................................................................469
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Book IV: A Tour of Visual Studio ............................... 479
Chapter 1: Getting Started with Visual Studio ...........................................................481
Chapter 2: Using the Interface ......................................................................................495
Chapter 3: Customizing Visual Studio .........................................................................517
Chapter 4: Transforming Text Templates...................................................................533
Book V: Windows Development with WPF .................. 543
Chapter 1: Introducing WPF .........................................................................................545
Chapter 2: Understanding the Basics of WPF.............................................................555
Chapter 3: Data Binding in WPF ...................................................................................579
Chapter 4: Practical WPF ..............................................................................................601
Book VI: Web Development with ASP.NET.................. 627
Chapter 1: Looking at How ASP.NET Works with C# .................................................629
Chapter 2: Building Web Applications ........................................................................641
Chapter 3: Controlling Your Development Experience .............................................659
Chapter 4: Leveraging the .NET Framework ...............................................................685
Chapter 5: Digging into Web Construction .................................................................703
Book VII: Service-Oriented Development .................... 717
Chapter 1: Getting Acquainted with Web Services ....................................................719
Chapter 2: Building Web Services with ASMX ............................................................731
Chapter 3: Building Web Services with WCF ..............................................................745
Chapter 4: Building Web Services with ReST .............................................................759
Book VIII: New Features in C# 4.0 ............................ 767
Chapter 1: Programming Dynamically! .......................................................................769
Chapter 2: Improving Productivity with Named and Optional Parameters ...........781
Chapter 3: Helping Out with Interop ...........................................................................789
Chapter 4: Revising Generics .......................................................................................795
Index ...................................................................... 799
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