Microsoft Visual C# Step by Step (Developer Reference)

Your hands-on guide to Microsoft Visual C# fundamentals with Visual Studio.

Expand your expertise--and teach yourself the fundamentals of programming with the latest version of Visual C# with Visual Studio. If you are an experienced software developer, you'll get all the guidance, exercises, and code you need 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 Visual Studio debugger
• Make the most of improvements to C# methods, parameters, and switch statements
• Master the C# object model, and create your own functional data structures
• Leverage advanced properties, indexers, generics, and collection classes
• Create Windows 10 apps that share data, collaborate, and use cloud services
• Integrate Cortana to voice-enable your applications
• 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
• Streamline development with app templates
• Implement the powerful Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern
• Develop cloud-connected applications that seamlessly follow users across devices
• Build UWP applications that retrieve complex data via REST and present it intuitively