Microsoft Visual C# 2013 Step by Step

Chapter 7. Creating and managing classes and objects

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Defining and using a class

• Controlling accessibility

• Creating a static field by using the const keyword

• Write and call your own constructors.

• Understanding static methods and data

• Anonymous classes

The Microsoft Windows Runtime for Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, together with the Microsoft .NET Framework available on Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 contain thousands of classes, and you have used a number of them already, including Console and Exception. Classes provide a convenient mechanism for modeling the entities manipulated by applications. An entity can represent a specific item, such as a customer, or something more abstract, such as a transaction. ...