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Essential C# 4.0
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Essential C# 4.0

by Mark Michaelis
March 2010
Intermediate to advanced
984 pages
21h 13m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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5. Classes

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YOU BRIEFLY SAW IN CHAPTER 1 how to declare a new class called HelloWorld. In Chapter 2, you learned about the built-in primitive types included with C#. Since you have now also learned about control flow and how to declare methods, it is time to discuss defining your own types. This is the core construct of any C# program, and the complete support for classes and the objects created from them is what defines C# as an object-oriented language.

This chapter introduces you to the basics of object-oriented programming using C#. A key focus is on how to define classes, which are the templates for objects themselves.

All of the constructs ...

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