Sams Teach Yourself C# 5.0 in 24 Hours

Hour 4. Understanding Classes and Objects the C# Way

What You’ll Learn in This Hour

• Object-oriented programming

• Component-oriented programming

• Classes in C#

• Scope and declaration space

• Nested classes

• Partial classes

• Static classes

• Object initializers

A class is the fundamental programming concept in C#, defining both representation and behavior in a single unit. Classes provide the language support required for object-oriented and component-oriented programming and are the primary mechanism you use to create user-defined types. Traditionally, object-oriented programming languages have used the term type to refer to behavior, whereas value-oriented programming languages have used it to refer to data representation. In C#, it ...