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Created by world-renowned programming instructors Paul and Harvey Deitel, “Visual C# 2008 How to Program, Third Edition” introduces all facets of the C# 2008 language hands-on, through hundreds of working programs. This book has been thoroughly updated to reflect the major innovations Microsoft has incorporated in Visual C# 2008 and .NET 3.5; all discussions and sample code have been carefully audited against the newest Visual C# language specification.

The many new platform features covered in depth in this edition include: LINQ (Language Integrated Query), Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), ASP.NET Ajax and the Microsoft Ajax Library, Silverlight-based rich Internet application development, and creating Web services with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). New language features introduced in this edition: automatic properties, object initializers, partial classes and methods, anonymous methods, Lambda expressions, extension methods, anonymous types, and collection initializers.

The Deitels also provide extensively updated coverage of delegates. Students begin by getting comfortable with the free C# Express 2008 IDE and basic Visual C# syntax. Next, they build their skills one step at a time, mastering control structures, classes, objects, methods, variables, arrays, and the core techniques of object-oriented programming.

With this strong foundation in place, the Deitels introduce more sophisticated techniques, including searching, sorting, data structures, generics, and collections. Throughout, the authors show students how to make the most of Microsoft’s Visual Studio tools. A series of appendices provide essential programming reference material on topics ranging from number systems to the Visual Studio Debugger, UML 2 to Unicode and ASCII.

1. Introduction to Computers, the Internet and Visual C#
2. Introduction to the Visual C# 2008 Express IDE
3. Introduction to C# Applications
4. Introduction to Classes and Objects
5. Control Statements: Part 1
6. Control Statements: Part 2
7. Methods: A Deeper Look
8. Arrays
9. Introduction to LINQ
10. Classes and Objects: A Deeper Look
11. Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance
12. Polymorphism, Interfaces & Operator Overloading
13. Exception Handling
14. Graphical User Interfaces with Windows Forms
15. Graphical User Interfaces with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and XAML
16. Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Graphics and Multimedia
17. Strings, Characters and Regular Expressions
18. Files and Streams
19. Extensible Markup Language (XML) and LINQ to XML
20. Databases, LINQ to SQL and LINQ to DataSets
21. ASP.NET and ASP.NET Ajax
22. Web Services and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
23. Microsoft?Silverlight?and Rich Internet Applications
24. Searching and Sorting
25. Data Structures
26. Generics
27. Collections

Appendix A. Operator Precedence Chart
Appendix B. Simple Types
Appendix C. Number Systems
Appendix D. Using the Visual Studio?Debugger
Appendix E. ATM Case Study Code
Appendix F. UML 2: Additional Diagram Types
Appendix G. ASCII Character Set
Appendix H. Unicode