Book description
The book is aimed at novice programmers who wish to learn programming
with C# and the .NET framework. The book starts with absolute
programming basics. It then moves into Web and Windows programming, data
access (databases and XML), and more advanced technologies such as
graphics programming with GDI+ and basic networking. The book is divided
into sections including:
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The C# Language: Basic language skills using console
application. Content moves from the absolute basics to fairly
involved OOP skills.
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Windows Vista Programming: Using basic Windows applications,
reinforcing earlier OOP and debugging skills.
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Web Programming: Putting together basic Web applications,
highlighting differences between Web and Windows programming.
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Data Access: Accessing all kinds of data sources from Web and
Windows applications, including SQL usage, XML, file system data,
and Web Services.
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Additional Techniques: "The fun stuff", including
Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Workflow, Windows
Communication Foundation, GDI+, networking, Windows Services, and so on.
The book makes complicated subjects seem easy to learn, and it
inspires readers to investigate areas further on their own by
providing references to additional material, and exercise questions
that require significant effort and personal research to complete.
Karli Watson is a freelance IT specialist, author,
and developer. He is also a technical consultant for 3form Ltd. (www.
3form. net) and Boost. net (www. boost. net), and an associate
technologist with Content Master (www. contentmaster. com). For the
most part, he immerses himself in .NET (in particular, C#) and has
written numerous books in the field. He specializes in communicating
complex ideas in a way that is accessible to anyone with a passion to
learn, and spends much of his time playing with new technology to find
new things to teach people.
During those rare times when he isn't
doing the above, Karli is probably wishing he were hurtling down a
mountain on a snowboard or possibly trying to get his novel published.
Either way, you'll know him by his brightly colored clothes.
Christian Nagel is a software architect, trainer, and
consultant, and an associate of Thinktecture (www. thinktecture. com),
offering training and coaching based on Microsoft .NET technologies.
His achievements in the developer community have earned him a position
as Microsoft Regional Director and MVP for ASP. NET. He enjoys an
excellent reputation as an author of several .NET books, such as
Professional C#, Pro .NET Network Programming, and
Enterprise Services with the .NET Frameworks, and he speaks
regularly at international industry conferences.
Christian has
more than 15 years of experience as a developer and software
architect. He started his computing career on PDP 11 and VAX/VMS,
covering a variety of languages and platforms. Since 2000, he has been
working with .NET and C#, developing and architecting distributed
solutions. He can be reached at www. christiannagel. com.
Jacob Hammer Pedersen is a systems developer at Fujitsu
Service, Denmark. He's been programming the PC since the early 1990s
using various languages, including Pascal, Visual Basic, C/C++, and
C#. Jacob has co-authored a number of .NET books and works with a wide
variety of Microsoft technologies, ranging from SQL Server to Office
extensibility. A Danish citizen, he works and lives in Aarhus, Denmark.
Jon D. Reid is the director of systems engineering at Indigo
Biosystems, Inc. (www. indigobio. com), an independent software vendor
for the life sciences, where he develops in C# for the Microsoft
environment. He has co-authored many .NET books, including
Beginning Visual C# 2005, Beginning C# Databases: From Novice to
Professional, Pro Visual Studio .NET, ADO. NET Programmer's
Reference, and Professional SQL Server 2000 XML.
Morgan Skinner started programming at school in 1980 and has
been hooked on computing ever since. He now works for Microsoft as an
application development consultant where he helps customers with their
architecture, design, coding, and testing. He's been working with .NET
since the PDC release in 2000, and has authored several MSDN articles
and co-authored a couple of books on .NET. In his spare time he
relaxes by fighting weeds on his allotment. You can reach Morgan at
www. morganskinner. com.
Eric White is an independent software consultant with more than
20 years of experience in building management information systems and
accounting systems. When he isn't hunched over a screen programming in
C#, he is most likely to be found with an ice axe in hand, climbing
some mountain.
