Your Definitive Professional Resource

Build solutions for the Microsoft .NET platform quickly and easily with C#—an efficient, object-oriented language. Advanced C# Programming thoroughly explains real-world solutions you can apply to a wide range of business applications or to programming problems. This book also reviews working code available on Microsoft’s portal. Maximize the vast capabilities of C# in three key areas—Windows applications, tools and component building, and Web programming—using the advanced development strategies presented in this professional resource.

Get an overview of core language foundations you will need to create applications

Explore Windows Forms programming, multithreading, GDI+, and more in .NET

Incorporate roles-based and code access security

Use attributes, exception handlers, event logging, and other proven programming methods with ease

Extend the Visual Studio .NET IDE using the new extensibility model

Implement Web methods, Web services, and asynchronous Web services

Learn to use C# in ASP.NET code behind pages, and use cookies, page, and session caching

Learn about ADO.NET, Reflection, and emitting IL by exploring the assembly viewer applications

Significantly minimize the number of bugs that make it off your work station

NOTE: due to the large amount of text and graphics, this eBook file is 10.0 MG. We recommend that you download this eBook using the fastest Internet connection at your disposal, otherwise you may notice a longer downloading time than usual.

Part I: Windows Applications

1: Language Foundations

2: Assembly Viewer

3: Video Kiosk

4: Terrarium

5: Building Database Applications with ADO.NET

Part II: Tools and Components

6: Customizing Visual Studio .NET

7: Event Logger

8: Creating UserControls

9: Special Effects Text

10: Creating Custom Attributes

11: Practical Reflection

Part III: Web Applications-IBUYSPY Portal

12: Implementing Web Services

13: IBuySpy and Dynamic User Interfaces in ASP.NET

14: Creating Custom Web Controls

15: Output Caching and Persisting State Information

16: Security and Authentication

Paul Kimmel is the founder of Software Conceptions, Inc., which helps organizations implement object-oriented solutions to problems in point of sales, telecommunications, finance, and insurance. Paul has implemented telephony applications used by Lucent Technologies at Bell Lab, and for back office systems for e-commerce for the Citibank Development Center in Los Angeles. Paul has also been working with .NET for two years and has been an invited speaker to Dev Days 2001 by Microsoft.