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Ready to learn programming? Start Here!™

Learn the fundamentals of modern programming with Visual C# 2010—and begin building your first apps for the desktop and web. If you have absolutely no previous experience, no problem—simply start here! This book introduces must-know concepts and techniques through easy-to-follow explanations, examples, and exercises.

Here’s where you start learning Visual C#

• Learn how an application performs tasks by tracing its code
• Query and manipulate application data with LINQ
• Access web services with REST and SOAP
• Build simple apps with Windows® Presentation Foundation
• Explore rich Internet apps with Microsoft Silverlight®
• Find and fix errors by debugging your applications
• Put it all together by creating your first programs

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Getting to Know C#
Chapter 2 Developing a Web Project
Chapter 3 Basic Data Manipulation Techniques
Chapter 4 Using Collections to Store Data
Chapter 5 Working with XML
Chapter 6 Accessing a Web Service Download Now »

Book Description

Using engaging examples and a clear, straightforward approach, MICROSOFT VISUAL C# 2010: AN INTRODUCTION TO OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING, FOURTH EDITION guides beginning programmers through developing programs in the C# language. The book provides readers with a strong background knowledge of structured programming, method calling, and parameter passing, all of which are important concepts easily transferable to other programming languages. The Fourth Edition has been written and tested using the latest version of C#, Visual C# 2010, and now offers supplementary video lessons, expanded coverage of methods, and the option to study GUI applications earlier in the text.

Table of Contents
Preface
CHAPTER 1 A First Program Using C#
CHAPTER 2 Using Data
CHAPTER 3 Using GUI Objects and the Visual Studio IDE
CHAPTER 4 Making Decisions
CHAPTER 5 Looping
CHAPTER 6 Using Arrays
CHAPTER 7 Using Methods
CHAPTER 8 Advanced Method Concepts
CHAPTER 9 Using Classes and Objects Download Now »

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VISUAL C# GAME PROGRAMMING FOR TEENS teaches teens and other beginners how to create games using C# and Windows Forms (GDI+). A true beginner’s guide, this book covers each essential step for creating your own complete role-playing game, including a character creation screen and a combat system. This book serves as a comprehensive introductory guide for readers who are new to programming or new to programming for games. The reader is shown how to load and draw bitmaps, create sprites, render a game world, keep track of inventory and character stats, and build tools: a level editor, character editor, item editor, monster editor. Every chapter contributes toward a growing game library that is used to improve and add new and more advanced features to the game, and when the student is finished they will have created a complete game.

Table of Contents:
1. So You Want To Be A Hero?
2. Building The Dungeon.
3. Editing The Dungeon.
4. Exploring The Dungeon.
5. Populating The Dungeon.
6. Creating The Player Character.
7. Fighting Monsters, Gaining Experience, and Leveling Up.
8. Creating The Bad Guys. Download Now »

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Learn how to extend Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with this comprehensive reference. Complete with code samples in Microsoft Visual Basic® and Visual C#®, this guide delivers the information that developers need to create customized solutions.

Get the definitive guide to learning how to exploit the built-in functionality in Outlook 2007. Written by two experts on Outlook extensibility, this book delivers practical guidance and extensive code samples to help you extend, adapt, and customize information flow to the desktop.

Discover how to:

• Programmatically create built-in item types to expose Outlook functionality in your solution
• Use the Items collection and Table object to access containers for Outlook items
• Connect to shared folders, Internet calendars, and RSS subscriptions
• Write event handlers and hook up event delegates for Outlook objects
• Implement programmatic search and organizational schemas
• Add controls at design-time or runtime to help you build rich form regions Download Now »

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This book is the second volume in a planned series about Windows Azure technology platform. Volume 1, Moving Applications to the Cloud on the Windows Azure Platform, provides an introduction to Windows Azure, discusses the cost model and application life cycle management for cloud-based applications, and describes how to migrate an existing ASP.NET application to the cloud.

This book demonstrates how you can create from scratch a multi-tenant, Software as a Service (SaaS) application to run in the cloud by using the latest versions of the Windows Azure tools and the latest features of the Windows Azure platform. The book is intended for any architect, developer, or information technology (IT) professional who designs, builds, or operates applications and services that run on or interact with the cloud.

Although applications do not need to be based on the Microsoft Windows® operating system to work in Windows Azure, this book is written for people who work with Windows-based systems. You should be familiar with the Microsoft .NET Framework, Microsoft Visual Studio® development system, ASP.NET MVC, and Microsoft Visual C#® development tool.

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If you’re new to C# programming, this book is the ideal way to get started. Respected author Adam Freeman guides you through the C# language by carefully building up your knowledge from fundamental concepts to advanced features.

The book gradually builds up your knowledge, using the concepts you have already grasped to support those that come next. You will explore all the core areas of the C# language and the .NET Framework on which it runs. Particular attention is paid to the creation of Web and Windows applications and data access—danger zones where novice programmers often go awry in their early coding attempts.

Introducing Visual C# 2010 is a comprehensive primer. Even if you have no previous programming experience, you can have confidence in the fact that you’ll be able to build well constructed web and Windows applications of your own once you have finished reading this book.

What you’ll learn

• Understand the fundamentals of the C# language’s syntax and grammar and use it to create Web and Windows applications.
• What object oriented programming is and how it is used in the .NET 4 Framework to save you time and increase the language’s flexibility. Download Now »