Sams Teach Yourself Visual C#® 2010 in 24 Hours

Hour 2. Understanding C# Types

What You’ll Learn in This Hour

• An Overview of Types

• The C# Predefined Types

• Operators

• Value and Reference Types

• Nullable Types

• Type Conversion

In Hour 1, “The .NET Framework and C#,” you were introduced to the fundamentals of the .NET Framework and C#, including the framework class library, the common language runtime, and the idea of automatic memory management. You briefly learned about namespaces and types and then moved on to statements, expressions, variables, constants, identifiers, and keywords. From those humble beginnings, you then built a simple C# application.

Building on what you have already learned, this hour introduces you to the predefined types offered by C# and the different operations ...