C# 6 for Programmers – Deitel & Deitel – 6th Edition

Chapter 1: Introduction 1
1.1 Introduction 2
1.2 Object Technology: A Brief Review 2
1.3 C# 5
1.4 Microsoft’s .NET 7
1.5 Microsoft’s Windows® Operating System 8
1.6 Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment 10
1.7 Painter Test-Drive in Visual Studio Community 10

Chapter 2: Introduction to Visual Studio and Visual Programming 15
2.1 Introduction 16
2.2 Overview of the Visual Studio Community 2015 IDE 16
2.3 Menu Bar and Toolbar 21
2.4 Navigating the Visual Studio IDE 24
2.5 Help Menu and Context-Sensitive Help 28
2.6 Visual Programming: Creating a Simple App that Displays Text and an Image 29
2.7 Wrap-Up 38
2.8 Web Resources 39

Chapter 3: Introduction to C# App Programming 40
3.1 Introduction 41
3.2 Simple App: Displaying a Line of Text 41
3.3 Creating a Simple App in Visual Studio 47
3.4 Modifying Your Simple C# App 52
3.5 String Interpolation 55
3.6 Another C# App: Adding Integers 56
3.7 Arithmetic 59
3.8 Decision Making: Equality and Relational Operators 61
3.9 Wrap-Up 65

Chapter 4: Introduction to Classes, Objects, Methods and strings 67
4.1 Introduction 68
4.2 Test-Driving an Account Class 69
4.3 Account Class with an Instance Variable and Set and Get Methods 71
4.4 Creating, Compiling and Running a Visual C# Project with Two Classes 77
4.5 Software Engineering with Set and Get Methods 78
4.6 Account Class with a Property Rather Than Set and Get Methods 79
4.7 Auto-Implemented Properties 83
4.8 Account Class: Initializing Objects with Constructors 84
4.9 Account Class with a Balance, Processing Monetary Amounts 87
4.10 Wrap-Up 93

Chapter 5: Control Statements: Part 1 95
5.1 Introduction 96
5.2 Control Structures 96
5.3 if Single-Selection Statement 99
5.4 if…else Double-Selection Statement 100
5.5 Student Class: Nested if…else Statements 103
5.6 while Iteration Statement 106
5.7 Counter-Controlled Iteration 107
5.8 Sentinel-Controlled Iteration 110
5.9 Nested Control Statements 114
5.10 Compound Assignment Operators 117
5.11 Increment and Decrement Operators 118
5.12 Simple Types 121
5.13 Wrap-Up 121

Chapter 6: Control Statements: Part 2 123
6.1 Introduction 124
6.2 Essentials of Counter-Controlled Iteration 124
6.3 for Iteration Statement 125
6.4 App: Summing Even Integers 128
6.5 App: Compound-Interest Calculations 129
6.6 do…while Iteration Statement 132
6.7 switch Multiple-Selection Statement 133
6.8 Class AutoPolicy Case Study: strings in switch Statements 139
6.9 break and continue Statements 141
6.10 Logical Operators 143
6.11 Wrap-Up 149

Chapter 7: Methods: A Deeper Look 150
7.1 Introduction 151
7.2 Packaging Code in C# 152
7.3 static Methods, static Variables and Class Math 152
7.4 Methods with Multiple Parameters 155
7.5 Notes on Using Methods 159
7.6 Argument Promotion and Casting 160
7.7 The .NET Framework Class Library 162
7.8 Case Study: Random-Number Generation 164
7.9 Case Study: A Game of Chance, Introducing Enumerations 169
7.10 Scope of Declarations 174
7.11 Method-Call Stack and Activation Records 177
7.12 Method Overloading 181
7.13 Optional Parameters 183
7.14 Named Parameters 184
7.15 C# 6 Expression-Bodied Methods and Properties 185
7.16 Recursion 186
7.17 Value Types vs. Reference Types 189
7.18 Passing Arguments By Value and By Reference 190
7.19 Wrap-Up 194

Chapter 8: Arrays, Introduction to Exception Handling 195
8.1 Introduction 196
8.2 Arrays 197
8.3 Declaring and Creating Arrays 198
8.4 Examples Using Arrays 199
8.5 Using Arrays to Analyze Survey Results, Intro to Exception Handling 208
8.6 Case Study: Card Shuffling and Dealing Simulation 212
8.7 Passing Arrays and Array Elements to Methods 216
8.8 Case Study: GradeBook Using an Array to Store Grades 219
8.9 Multidimensional Arrays 225
8.10 Case Study: GradeBook Using a Rectangular Array 230
8.11 Variable-Length Argument Lists 236
8.12 Using Command-Line Arguments 237
8.13 (Optional) Passing Arrays by Value and by Reference 240
8.14 Wrap-Up 244

Chapter 9: Introduction to LINQ and the List Collection 245
9.1 Introduction 246
9.2 Querying an Array of int Values Using LINQ 247
9.3 Querying an Array of Employee Objects Using LINQ 251
9.4 Introduction to Collections 256
9.5 Querying the Generic List Collection Using LINQ 261
9.6 Wrap-Up 264
9.7 Deitel LINQ Resource Center 264

Chapter 10: Classes and Objects: A Deeper Look 265
10.1 Introduction 266
10.2 Time Class Case Study, Throwing Exceptions 266
10.3 Controlling Access to Members 270
10.4 Referring to the Current Object’s Members with the this Reference 271
10.5 Time Class Case Study: Overloaded Constructors 273
10.6 Default and Parameterless Constructors 279
10.7 Composition 280
10.8 Garbage Collection and Destructors 284
10.9 static Class Members 284
10.10 readonly Instance Variables 288
10.11 Class View and Object Browser 289
10.12 Object Initializers 291
10.13 Operator Overloading, Introducing struct 291
10.14 Time Class Case Study: Extension Methods 295
10.15 Wrap-Up 298

Chapter 11: Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance 299
11.1 Introduction 300
11.2 Base Classes and Derived Classes 301
11.3 protected Members 303
11.4 Relationship between Base Classes and Derived Classes 304
11.5 Constructors in Derived Classes 324
11.6 Software Engineering with Inheritance 324
11.7 Class object 325
11.8 Wrap-Up 326

Chapter 12: OOP: Polymorphism and Interfaces 327
12.1 Introduction 328
12.2 Polymorphism Examples 330
12.3 Demonstrating Polymorphic Behavior 331
12.4 Abstract Classes and Methods 334
12.5 Case Study: Payroll System Using Polymorphism 336
12.6 sealed Methods and Classes 351
12.7 Case Study: Creating and Using Interfaces 352
12.8 Wrap-Up 361

Chapter 13: Exception Handling: A Deeper Look 362
13.1 Introduction 363
13.2 Example: Divide by Zero without Exception Handling 364
13.3 Example: Handling DivideByZeroExceptions and FormatExceptions 367
13.4 .NET Exception Hierarchy 372
13.5 finally Block 374
13.6 The using Statement 381
13.7 Exception Properties 382
13.8 User-Defined Exception Classes 386
13.9 Checking for null References, Introducing C# 6’s ?. Operator 390
13.10 Exception Filters and the C# 6 when Clause 392
13.11 Wrap-Up 393

Chapter 14: Graphical User Interfaces with Windows Forms: Part 1 394
14.1 Introduction 395
14.2 Windows Forms 396
14.3 Event Handling 398
14.4 Control Properties and Layout 406
14.5 Labels, TextBoxes and Buttons 410
14.6 GroupBoxes and Panels 413
14.7 CheckBoxes and RadioButtons 416
14.8 PictureBoxes 424
14.9 ToolTips 426
14.10 NumericUpDown Control 428
14.11 Mouse-Event Handling 430
14.12 Keyboard-Event Handling 433
14.13 Wrap-Up 436

Chapter 15: Graphical User Interfaces with Windows Forms: Part 2 438
15.1 Introduction 439
15.2 Menus 439
15.3 MonthCalendar Control 449
15.4 DateTimePicker Control 450
15.5 LinkLabel Control 453
15.6 ListBox Control 456
15.7 CheckedListBox Control 461
15.8 ComboBox Control 464
15.9 TreeView Control 468
15.10 ListView Control 474
15.11 TabControl Control 480
15.12 Multiple Document Interface (MDI) Windows 484
15.13 Visual Inheritance 492
15.14 User-Defined Controls 497
15.15 Wrap-Up 500

Chapter 16: Strings and Characters: A Deeper Look 502
16.1 Introduction 503
16.2 Fundamentals of Characters and Strings 504
16.3 string Constructors 505
16.4 string Indexer, Length Property and CopyTo Method 506
16.5 Comparing strings 507
16.6 Locating Characters and Substrings in strings 511
16.7 Extracting Substrings from strings 514
16.8 Concatenating strings 515
16.9 Miscellaneous string Methods 515
16.10 Class StringBuilder 517
16.11 Length and Capacity Properties, EnsureCapacity Method and Indexer of Class StringBuilder 518
16.12 Append and AppendFormat Methods of Class StringBuilder 520
16.13 Insert, Remove and Replace Methods of Class StringBuilder 522
16.14 Char Methods 525
16.15 Introduction to Regular Expressions (Online) 527
16.16 Wrap-Up 527

Chapter 17: Files and Streams 529
17.1 Introduction 530
17.2 Files and Streams 530
17.3 Creating a Sequential-Access Text File 531
17.4 Reading Data from a Sequential-Access Text File 540
17.5 Case Study: Credit-Inquiry Program 544
17.6 Serialization 549
17.7 Creating a Sequential-Access File Using Object Serialization 550
17.8 Reading and Deserializing Data from a Binary File 554
17.9 Classes File and Directory 557
17.10 Wrap-Up 565

Chapter 18: Generics 567
18.1 Introduction 568
18.2 Motivation for Generic Methods 569
18.3 Generic-Method Implementation 571
18.4 Type Constraints 574
18.5 Overloading Generic Methods 577
18.6 Generic Classes 577
18.7 Wrap-Up 587

Chapter 19: Generic Collections, Functional Programming with LINQ/PLINQ 588
19.1 Introduction 589
19.2 Collections Overview 590
19.3 Class Array and Enumerators 593
19.4 Dictionary Collections 597
19.5 Generic LinkedList Collection 603
19.6 C# 6 Null Conditional Operator ?[] 607
19.7 C# 6 Dictionary Initializers and Collection Initializers 608
19.8 Delegates 608
19.9 Lambda Expressions 611
19.10 Introduction to Functional Programming 614
19.11 Functional Programming with LINQ Method-Call Syntax and Lambdas 616
19.11.1 LINQ Extension Methods Min, Max, Sum and Average 619
19.11.2 Aggregate Extension Method for Reduction Operations 619
19.11.3 The Where Extension Method for Filtering Operations 621
19.11.4 Select Extension Method for Mapping Operations 622
19.12 PLINQ: Improving LINQ to Objects Performance with Multicore 622
19.13 (Optional) Covariance and Contravariance for Generic Types 626
19.14 Wrap-Up 628

Chapter 20: Databases and LINQ 629
20.1 Introduction 630
20.2 Relational Databases 631
20.3 A Books Database 632
20.4 LINQ to Entities and the ADO.NET Entity Framework 636
20.5 Querying a Database with LINQ 637
20.6 Dynamically Binding Query Results 651
20.7 Retrieving Data from Multiple Tables with LINQ 655
20.8 Creating a Master/Detail View App 661
20.9 Address Book Case Study 664
20.10 Tools and Web Resources 671
20.11 Wrap-Up 671

Chapter 21: Asynchronous Programming with async and await 672
21.1 Introduction 673
21.2 Basics of async and await 675
21.3 Executing an Asynchronous Task from a GUI App 676
21.4 Sequential Execution of Two Compute-Intensive Tasks 680
21.5 Asynchronous Execution of Two Compute-Intensive Tasks 682
21.6 Invoking a Flickr Web Service Asynchronously with HttpClient 687
21.7 Displaying an Asynchronous Task’s Progress 694
21.8 Wrap-Up 698

Appendix A: Operator Precedence Chart 700
Appendix B: Simple Types 702
Appendix C: ASCII Character Set 704