C# 5.0 All-in-One For Dummies®

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Table of Contents

Introduction

What’s New in C# 5.0

About This Book

What You Need in Order to Use This Book

Conventions Used in This Book

How to Use This Book

How This Book Is Organized

Book I: The Basics of C# Programming

Book II: Object-Oriented C# Programming

Book III: Designing for C#

Book IV: A Tour of Visual Studio

Book V: Windows Development with WPF

Book VI: Web Development with ASP.NET

Book VII: Service-Oriented Development

Icons Used in This Book

About This Book’s Website

Where to Go from Here

Book I: The Basics of C# Programming

Book I: Chapter 1: Creating Your First C# Console Application

Getting a Handle on Computer Languages, C#, and .NET

What’s a program?

What’s C#?

What’s .NET?

What is Visual Studio 2012? What about Visual C#?

Creating Your First Console Application

Creating the source program

Taking it out for a test drive

Making Your Console App Do Something

Reviewing Your Console Application

The program framework

Comments

The meat of the program

Introducing the Toolbox Trick

Saving code in the Toolbox

Reusing code from the Toolbox

Book I: Chapter 2: Living with Variability — Declaring Value-Type Variables

Declaring a Variable

What’s an int?

Rules for declaring variables

Variations on a theme: Different types of int

Representing Fractions

Handling Floating-Point Variables

Declaring a floating-point variable

Converting some more temperatures

Examining some ...