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    Head First C#
    Dedication
    A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
    Advance Praise for Head First C#
    Praise for other Head First books
     
    How to Use this Book: Intro
    1. Get Productive with C#: Visual Applications, in 10 minutes or less
    Why you should learn C#
    C# and the Visual Studio IDE make lots of things easy
    Help the CEO go paperless
    Get to know your users’ needs before you start building your program
    Here’s what you’re going to build
    What you do in Visual Studio...
    What Visual Studio does for you...
    Develop the user interface
    Visual Studio, behind the scenes
    Add to the auto-generated code
    You can already run your application
    Where are my files?
    Here’s what we’ve done so far
    We need a database to store our information
    The IDE created a database
    SQL is its own language
    Creating the table for the Contact List
    The blanks on the contact card are columns in our People table
    Finish building the table
    Insert your card data into the database
    Connect your form to your database objects with a data source
    Add database-driven controls to your form
    Good programs are intuitive to use
    Test drive
    How to turn YOUR application into EVERYONE’S application
    Give your users the application
    You’re NOT done: test your installation
    You’ve built a complete data-driven application
    2. It’s All Just Code: Under the hood
    3. Objects: Get Oriented!: Making code make sense
    4. Types and References: It’s 10:00. Do you know where your data is?
    I. C# Lab: A Day at the Races
    II. C# Lab: The Quest
    III. C# Lab: Invaders
    Index
    About the Authors
    Copyright
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    Why you should learn C#

    C# and the Visual Studio IDE make it easy for you to get to the business of writing code, and writing it fast. When you’re working with C#, the IDE is your best friend and constant companion.

    Note

    The IDE—or Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment—is an important part of working in C#. It’s a program that helps you edit your code, manage your files, and publish your projects.

    Here’s what the IDE automates for you...

    Every time you want to get started writing a program, or just putting a button on a form, your program needs a whole bunch of repetitive code.

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    What you get with Visual Studio and C#...

    With a language like C#, tuned for Windows programming, and the Visual Studio IDE, you can focus on what your program is supposed to do immediately:


      

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