Microsoft Visual C# Step by Step: Developer Reference

John Sharp is a principal technologist for CM Group Ltd, part of the Civica Group, a software development and consultancy company in the United Kingdom. He is well versed as a software consultant, developer, author, and trainer, with more than 35 years of experience, ranging from Pascal programming on CP/M and C/Oracle application development on various flavors of UNIX to the design of C# and JavaScript distributed applications and development on Windows 11 and Microsoft Azure. He also spends much of his time writing courseware for Microsoft, focusing on areas such as data science using R and Python, big data processing with Spark and CosmosDB, SQL Server, NoSQL, web services, Blazor, cross-platform development with frameworks such as Xamarin and MAUI, and scalable application architectures with Azure.

Introduction
PART I INTRODUCING MICROSOFT VISUAL C# AND MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO
CHAPTER 1 Welcome to C#
CHAPTER 2 Working with variables, operators, and expressions
CHAPTER 3 Writing methods and applying scope
CHAPTER 4 Using decision statements
CHAPTER 5 Using compound assignment and iteration statements
CHAPTER 6 Managing errors and exceptions
PART II UNDERSTANDING THE C# OBJECT MODEL
CHAPTER 7 Creating and managing classes and objects
CHAPTER 8 Understanding values and references
CHAPTER 9 Creating value types with enumerations and structures
CHAPTER 10 Using arrays
CHAPTER 11 Understanding parameter arrays
CHAPTER 12 Working with inheritance
CHAPTER 13 Creating interfaces and defining abstract classes
CHAPTER 14 Using garbage collection and resource management
PART III DEFINING EXTENSIBLE TYPES WITH C#
CHAPTER 15 Implementing properties to access fields
CHAPTER 16 Handling binary data and using indexers
CHAPTER 17 Introducing generics
CHAPTER 18 Using collections
CHAPTER 19 Enumerating collections
CHAPTER 20 Decoupling application logic and handling events
CHAPTER 21 Querying in-memory data by using query expressions
CHAPTER 22 Operator overloading
PART IV BUILDING UNIVERSAL WINDOWS PLATFORM APPLICATIONS WITH C#
CHAPTER 23 Improving throughput by using tasks
CHAPTER 24 Improving response time by performing asynchronous operations
CHAPTER 25 Implementing the user interface for a Universal Windows Platform app
CHAPTER 26 Displaying and searching for data in a Universal Windows Platform app
CHAPTER 27 Accessing a remote database from a Universal Windows Platform app