Microsoft Visual C# 2012 Step By Step (Paperback)

Teach yourself how to build applications with Microsoft Visual C# 2012 and Visual Studio® 2012—one step at a time. Ideal for those with fundamental programming skills, this tutorial provides practical, learn-by-doing exercises for mastering core C# language features and creating working applications and components for Windows®.

Discover how to:

• Work with variables, non-reserved identifiers, statements, operators, and methods
• Use the new application models provided by Windows 8 and the Windows Runtime
• Create interfaces and define abstract classes
• Manage errors and exception handling
• Use collection classes
• Work with databases by using DataBinding with the Entity Framework
• Respond to user input and gestures; gather input from devices and other sources
• Handle events arising from multiple sources
• Develop your first Windows 8 apps