Introduction ................................................................ 1

Book I:
Basics of C# Programming ................................ 9
Chapter 1: Creating Your First C# Console Application .............................................11
Chapter 2: Living with Variability — Declaring Value-Type Variables .....................25
Chapter 3: Pulling Strings ...............................................................................................45
Chapter 4: Smooth Operators ........................................................................................73
Chapter 5: Getting Into the Program Flow ....................................................................85
Chapter 6: Lining Up Your Ducks with Collections ...................................................109
Chapter 7: Stepping through Collections....................................................................135
Chapter 8: Buying Generic ............................................................................................169
Chapter 9: Some Exceptional Exceptions ...................................................................187

Book II:
Object-Oriented C# Programming ................. 205
Chapter 1: Object-Oriented Programming: What’s It All About? .............................207
Chapter 2: Showing Some Class ...................................................................................215
Chapter 3: We Have Our Methods ...............................................................................227
Chapter 4: Let Me Say This about this......................................................................247
Chapter 5: Holding a Class Responsible .....................................................................261
Chapter 6: Inheritance: Is That All I Get? ....................................................................285
Chapter 7: Poly-what-ism? ............................................................................................307
Chapter 8: Interfacing with the Interface ....................................................................333
Chapter 9: Delegating Those Important Events .........................................................357
Chapter 10: Can I Use Your Namespace in the Library? ...........................................377

Book III: Designing for C# ........................................ 399
Chapter 1: Writing Secure Code ...................................................................................401
Chapter 2: Accessing Data ............................................................................................415
Chapter 3: Fishing the FileStream ................................................................................435 

Chapter 4: Accessing the Internet ...............................................................................455
Chapter 5: Creating Images...........................................................................................469

Book IV:
A Tour of Visual Studio ............................... 479
Chapter 1: Getting Started with Visual Studio ...........................................................481
Chapter 2: Using the Interface ......................................................................................495
Chapter 3: Customizing Visual Studio .........................................................................517
Chapter 4: Transforming Text Templates...................................................................533

Book V:
Windows Development with WPF .................. 543
Chapter 1: Introducing WPF .........................................................................................545
Chapter 2: Understanding the Basics of WPF.............................................................555
Chapter 3: Data Binding in WPF ...................................................................................579
Chapter 4: Practical WPF ..............................................................................................601

Book VI:
Web Development with ASP.NET.................. 627
Chapter 1: Looking at How ASP.NET Works with C# .................................................629
Chapter 2: Building Web Applications ........................................................................641
Chapter 3: Controlling Your Development Experience .............................................659
Chapter 4: Leveraging the .NET Framework ...............................................................685
Chapter 5: Digging into Web Construction .................................................................703

Book VII:
Service-Oriented Development .................... 717
Chapter 1: Getting Acquainted with Web Services ....................................................719
 Chapter 2: Building Web Services with ASMX ............................................................731
Chapter 3: Building Web Services with WCF ..............................................................745
Chapter 4: Building Web Services with ReST .............................................................759

Book VIII:
New Features in C# 4.0 ............................ 767
Chapter 1: Programming Dynamically! .......................................................................769
Chapter 2: Improving Productivity with Named and Optional Parameters ...........781
Chapter 3: Helping Out with Interop ...........................................................................789
Chapter 4: Revising Generics .......................................................................................795
 Index ...................................................................... 799