The popular, learn-by-doing tutorial—rewritten for the latest version of Visual C#. Teach yourself the fundamental techniques for creating working components and applications for Microsoft Windows®—one step at a time.

Teach yourself Visual C# 2005 fundamentals—one step at a time. With this practical, learn-by-doing tutorial, you get the guidance you need to start creating programs and components in C#!

Discover how to:

• Work in the Visual Studio 2005 development environment
• Declare variables, call methods, and create operators
• Construct statements to selectively or repeatedly run your code
• Catch and handle exception errors
• Use object-oriented concepts to declare classes and objects
• Write destructors to clean up unneeded code and help manage resources
• Create reusable components, such as properties, indexers, and events
• Define types and parameters for generics and generalized classes
• Use Windows Forms to create user interfaces complete with user controls
• Access data sources using Microsoft ADO.NET
• Construct Web Forms that display large volumes of data
• Validate user input with Microsoft ASP.NET controls
• Write, test, and deploy Web services

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