Stephens' C# Programming with Visual Studio® 2010 24-Hour Trainer

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INTRODUCTION

GETTING THE MOST OUT OF THE BOOK

This book provides a lot of tools that you can use to best match your learning style

but you have to use them. If you learn best by reading text, spend more time on the

text. If you like step-by-step instructions, focus on the Try It’s step-by-step exercise.

If you learn best by watching and listening, focus on the screencasts.

Then, after you’ve finished a lesson, use the exercises to verify that you’ve mastered

the material.

And don’t be afraid to invent programs of your own. Just because an idea isn’t in

the book doesn’t mean it wouldn’t make good practice.

HOW THIS BOOK IS STRUCTURED

This book is divided into six sections, each containing a series of short lessons. The lessons are gen-

erally arranged in order with later lessons depending on earlier ones, so you should study the lessons

more or less in order, at least until sections V and VI. The lessons in sections V and VI cover slightly

more specialized topics and their order is less critical. (However, you should still probably study

“Programming Databases, Part 1” before you study “Programming Databases, Part 2,” but you can

study them before or after reading the lesson on printing.)

PERSISTENT PROGRAMS

A number of the lessons work with the SimpleEdit example program. This pro-

gram starts as a simple form containing a few controls in Lesson 3 and grows into

a serviceable word proce ...