Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft® Visual C#® 2005 in 24 Hours, Complete Starter Kit

Chapter 3. Understanding Objects and Collections

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Understanding objects

• Getting and setting properties

• Triggering methods

• Understanding method dynamism

• Writing object-based code

• Understanding collections

• Using the Object Browser

In Hour 1, “Jumping In with Both Feet: A Visual C# 2005 Programming Tour,” you were introduced to programming in Visual C# by building a Picture Viewer project. You then spent Hour 2, “Navigating Visual C# 2005,” digging into the integrated development environment (IDE) and learning skills critical to your success with Visual C#. In this hour, you’re going to start learning about an important programming concept, namely objects.

The term object as it relates to programming might have been new to you ...