Microsoft Visual C# 2013 Step by Step

Your hands-on guide to Visual C# fundamentals

Expand your expertise—and teach yourself the fundamentals of Microsoft Visual C# 2013. If you have previous programming experience but are new to Visual C# 2013, this tutorial delivers the step-by-step guidance and coding exercises you need to master core topics and techniques.

Discover how to:

• Create and debug C# applications in Visual Studio 2013
• Work with variables, identifiers, statements, operators, and methods
• Create interfaces and define abstract classes
• Write robust code that can catch and handle exceptions
• Display and edit data using data binding with Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework
• Respond to user input and touchscreen gestures
• Handle events arising from multiple sources
• Develop your first Windows 8.1 apps

C# Fundamentals Important Update

Since the launch of this series Microsoft has released Windows 8 along with new editions of Visual Studio. In this short update video, Bob Tabor explains which versions of Visual Studio 2012 Express you should download and explains the difference between Visual Studio for Windows 8 and Visual Studio for Desktop.

Beginning ASP.NET 4.5 in C#

This book is the most comprehensive and up to date introduction to ASP.NET ever written. Focussing solely on C#, with no code samples duplicated in other languages, award winning author Matthew MacDonald introduces you to the very latest thinking and best practices for the ASP.NET 4.5 technology.

Assuming no prior coding experience, you'll be taught everything you need to know from the ground up.  Starting from first principals, you'll learn the skills you need to be an effective ASP.NET developer who is ready to progress to more sophisticated projects and professional work.

You'll be taught how to use object orientation and code-behind techniques to lay out your code clearly in a way other developers can easily understand. You'll learn how to query databases from within you web pages, spice up your layouts using ASP.NET AJAX and deploy your finished websites to production servers.  You'll also learn how to debug your code when things go wrong and the performance and scalability issues that can affect your web projects as they grow.

With you book you can take your first step towards becoming a successful ASP.NET developer with confidence.

What you’ll learn

• Learn everything you need to know to build ASP.NET 4.5 applications with confidence.
• Dive into the deepest, broadest, introductory ASP.NET coverage available.
• Be guided by an award winning author who will steadily progress your knowledge from first principles to advanced techniques over the course of the book.

Who this book is for

This book is ideal for anyone new to .NET development who wants to learn how ASP.NET 4.5 works. No prior programming knowledge is assumed and all concepts are explained from first principals.

Table of Contents

1. The .NET Framework 
2. The C# Language 
3. Types, Objects, and Namespaces 
4. Visual Studio
5. Web Form Fundamentals 
6. Web Controls 
7. Error Handling, Logging, and Tracing 
8. State Management 
9. Validation 
10.Rich Controls 
11.User Controls and Graphics 
12.Styles, Themes, and Master Pages 
13.Website Navigation 
14.ADO.NET Fundamentals 
15.Data Binding 
16.The Data Controls
17.Files and Streams 
18.XML 
19.Security Fundamentals 
20.Membership 
21.Profiles 
22.Advanced ASP.NET Components 
23.Caching 
24.LINQ and the Entity Framework 
25.ASP.NET AJAX 
26.Deploying ASP.NET Applications

C# Fundamentals: Development for Absolute Beginners

Over the course of 24 episodes of C# Fundamentals: Development for Absolute Beginners, Bob Tabor from www.LearnVisualStudio.net will teach you the fundamentals of C# programming. Tune in to learn concepts applicable to video games, mobile environments, and client applications.

We'll walk you through getting the tools, writing code, debugging features, customizations and much more! Each concept is broken into its own video so you can search for and focus on the information you need.





Link: C# Fundamentals: Development for Absolute Beginners