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

Chapter 11. Using Constants, Data Types, Variables, and Arrays

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Understanding data types

• Determining data type

• Converting data to different data types

• Defining and using constants

• Declaring and referencing variables

• Working with arrays

• Determining scope

• Declaring static variables

• Using a naming convention

As you write your Visual C# methods, you’ll regularly need to store and retrieve various pieces of information. In fact, I can’t think of a single application I’ve written that didn’t need to store and retrieve data in code. For example, you might want to keep track of how many times a method has been called, or you may want to store a property value and use it at a later time. Such data can be stored as constants, variables ...