Introduction -- What's New in the Second Edition -- Who This Book Is For -- What This Book Covers (And What It Doesn't) -- The Wrox 24-Hour Trainer Approach -- How This Book Is Structured -- What You Need to Use This Book -- Conventions -- Source Code -- Errata -- p2p.wrox.com -- Section I: The Visual Studio IDE and Controls -- Lesson 1: Getting Started with the Visual Studio IDE -- Installing C# -- Configuring the IDE -- Building Your First Program -- Copying Projects -- Exploring the IDE -- Try It -- Exercises -- Lesson 2: Creating Controls -- Understanding Controls -- Creating Controls -- Setting Control Properties -- Arranging Controls -- WPF Controls -- Try It -- Exercises -- Lesson 3: Making Controls Arrange Themselves -- Restricting Form Size -- Using Anchor Properties -- Using Dock Properties -- Layout Containers -- Try It -- Exercises -- Lesson 4: Handling Events -- Making Event Handlers -- Using Event Parameters -- Removing Event Handlers -- Adding and Removing Event Handlers in Code -- Useful Events -- Try It -- Exercises -- Lesson 5: Making Menus -- Creating Menus -- Setting Menu Properties -- Handling Menu Events -- Creating Context Menus -- WPF Menus -- WPF Context Menus -- WPF Commanding -- Try It -- Exercises -- Lesson 6: Making Tool Strips and Status Strips -- Using Tool Strips -- Using Tool Strip Containers -- Using Status Strips -- Try It -- Exercises -- Lesson 7: Using RichTextBoxes -- Using RichTextBox Properties -- Giving the User Control -- Using RichTextBox Methods -- Using WPF Commands -- Try It -- Exercises -- Lesson 8: Using Standard Dialogs -- Using Dialogs in General -- Using Dialog Properties -- Using File Filters -- Using Dialogs in WPF -- Try It -- Exercises -- Lesson 9: Creating and Displaying New Forms -- Adding New Forms -- Understanding Classes and Instances -- Displaying Forms -- Controlling Remote Forms.

Try It -- Exercises -- Lesson 10: Building Custom Dialogs -- Making Custom Dialogs -- Setting the Dialog Result -- Using Custom Dialogs -- Try It -- Exercises -- Section II: Variables and Calculations -- Lesson 11: Using Variables and Performing Calculations -- What Are Variables? -- Data Types -- Declaring Variables -- Literal Values -- Type Conversions -- Performing Calculations -- Constants -- Try It -- Exercises -- Lesson 12: Debugging Code -- Deferred Techniques -- Debugging Then and Now -- Setting Breakpoints -- Reading Variables -- Stepping Through Code -- Using Watches -- Using the Immediate Window -- Try It -- Exercises -- Lesson 13: Understanding Scope -- Scope within a Class -- Accessibility -- Restricting Scope and Accessibility -- Try It -- Exercises -- Lesson 14: Working with Strings -- String Methods -- Format and ToString -- Try It -- Exercises -- Lesson 15: Working with Dates and Times -- Creating DateTime Variables -- Local and UTC Time -- DateTime Properties and Methods -- TimeSpans -- Try It -- Exercises -- Lesson 16: Using Arrays and Collections -- Arrays -- Collection Classes -- Try It -- Exercises -- Lesson 17: Using Enumerations and Structures -- Enumerations -- Structures -- Structures Versus Classes -- Where to Put Structures -- Try It -- Exercises -- Section III: Program Statements -- Lesson 18: Making Choices -- Decision Statements -- if Statements -- if-else Statements -- Cascading if Statements -- Nested if Statements -- Switch Statements -- Try It -- Exercises -- Lesson 19: Repeating Program Steps -- for Loops -- Foreach Loops -- while Loops -- do Loops -- break and continue -- Try It -- Exercises -- Lesson 20: Reusing Code with Methods -- Method Advantages -- Method Syntax -- Using ref Parameters -- Using out Parameters -- Try It -- Exercises -- Lesson 21: Handling Errors -- Errors and Exceptions -- try-catch Blocks.

TryParse -- Throwing Exceptions -- Try It -- Exercises -- Lesson 22: Preventing Bugs -- Input Assertions -- Other Assertions -- Try It -- Exercises -- Section IV: Classes -- Lesson 23: Defining Classes -- What Is a Class? -- Class Benefits -- Making a Class -- Try It -- Methods -- Events -- Try It -- Inheritance -- Polymorphism -- Try It -- Exercises -- Lesson 24: Initializing Objects -- Initializing Objects -- Constructors -- Destructors -- Invoking Other Constructors -- Try It -- Exercises -- Lesson 25: Fine-Tuning Classes -- Overloading Methods -- Overriding Methods -- Overriding ToString -- Try It -- Exercises -- Lesson 26: Overloading Operators -- Overloadable Operators -- Unary Operators -- Binary Operators -- Comparison Operators -- Conversion Operators -- Try It -- Exercises -- Lesson 27: Using Interfaces -- Interface Advantages -- Implementing Interfaces -- Defining Interfaces -- Try It -- Exercises -- Lesson 28: Making Generic Classes -- Defining Generic Classes -- Using Generic Constraints -- Making Generic Methods -- Try It -- Exercises -- Section V: System Interactions -- Lesson 29: Using Files -- Filesystem Classes -- Path -- Streams -- Try It -- Exercises -- Lesson 30: Printing -- Windows Forms Printing -- WPF Printing -- Printing Visuals -- Try It -- Exercises -- Section VI: Windows Apps -- Lesson 31: Windows Store Apps -- Navigation Style -- App Styles -- App Images -- Deployment -- WPF Techniques -- Try It -- Exercises -- Lesson 32: Windows Phone Apps -- Building Apps -- Navigation Style -- App Styles -- App Images -- Try It -- Exercises -- Section VII: Specialized Topics -- Lesson 33: Localizing Programs -- Understanding Localization -- Building Localized Interfaces -- Testing Localizations -- Processing Locale-Specific Values -- Try It -- Exercises -- Lesson 34: Programming Databases, Part 1 -- Connecting to a Database.

Displaying Data in a Grid -- Displaying Data One Record at a Time -- Try It -- Exercises -- Lesson 35: Programming Databases, Part 2 -- Searching -- Filtering -- Sorting -- Try It -- Exercises -- Lesson 36: LINQ to Objects -- LINQ Basics -- where Clauses -- Order By Clauses -- Select Clauses -- Try It -- Exercises -- Lesson 37: LINQ to SQL -- Connecting to the Database -- Making LINQ to SQL Classes -- Writing Code -- Using LINQ Queries -- Understanding Nullable Fields -- Understanding Query Execution -- Using LINQ to SQL with Access -- Try It -- Exercises -- Afterword: What's Next? -- End User License Agreement.