Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft® Visual C#™ .NET in 24 Hours

Appendix A. The 10,000-Foot View

You know a lot about Visual C# .NET by now. You can create projects, use forms and controls to build an interface, and you know how to add menus and toolbars to a form. You've also learned how to create modules and procedures and how to write code to make things happen. You can use variables, make decisions, perform looping, and even debug your code. The question you may be asking now is, “Where to next?”

Throughout this book, I've focused my discussions on Visual C# .NET. When it comes to Microsoft's .NET platform, however, Visual C# .NET is just part of the picture. In this appendix, I provide an overview of Microsoft's .NET platform so that you can see how Visual C# .NET relates to .NET as a whole. After you ...