Your hands-on guide to Visual C# fundamentals with Visual Studio 2022 Expand your expertise—and teach yourself the fundamentals of programming the latest version of Visual C# with Visual Studio 2022. This book provides software developers all the guidance, exercises, and code needed to start building responsive, scalable, cloud-connected applications that can run almost anywhere. Discover how to: Quickly start creating Visual C# code and projects with Visual Studio Work with variables, operators, expressions, methods, and program flow Build more robust apps with error, exception, and resource management Spot problems fast with the integrated Visual Studio 2022 debugger Master new default interface methods, static local functions, async disposable types, and other enhancements Make the most of the C# object model, and create functional data structures Leverage advanced properties, indexers, generics, and collection classes Create Windows 11 apps that share data, collaborate, and use cloud services Use lightweight records to build immutable reference types more easily Perform complex queries over object collections with LINQ Improve application throughput and response time with asynchronous methods Use delegates and decoupling to construct highly extensible systems Customize C# operator behavior over your own classes and structures Implement the powerful Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern Build UWP applications that retrieve complex data and present it intuitively Cover Title Contents at a glance Contents Acknowledgments About the author Introduction I Introducing Microsoft Visual C# and Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 1 Welcome to C# 2 Working with variables, operators, and expressions 3 Writing methods and applying scope 4 Using decision statements 5 Using compound assignment and iteration statements 6 Managing errors and exceptions II Understanding the C# object model 7 Creating and managing classes and objects 8 Understanding values and references 9 Creating value types with enumerations and structures 10 Using arrays 11 Understanding parameter arrays 12 Working with inheritance 13 Creating interfaces and defining abstract classes 14 Using garbage collection and resource management III Understanding the C# object model 15 Implementing properties to access fields 16 Handling binary data and using indexers 17 Introducing generics 18 Using collections 19 Enumerating collections 20 Decoupling application logic and handling events 21 Querying in-memory data by using query expressions 22 Operator overloading IV Building Universal Windows Platform applications with C# 23 Improving throughput by using tasks 24 Improving response time by performing asynchronous operations 25 Implementing the user interface for a Universal Windows Platform app 26 Displaying and searching for data in a Universal Windows Platform app 27 Accessing a remote database from a Universal Windows Platform app Index
