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C# Programming for Windows and Android

By John Allwork

Published by Elektor International Media B.V. (2015)

Website: www.elektor.com

Table of Contents

Introduction

Covers the introduction to the book and its scope.

Chapter 1: The Visual Studio 2015 Environment

1.1 Introduction
1.1.1 What's new in VS2015?
1.2 Obtaining the Visual Studio software
1.3 The Visual Studio development environment

1.3.1 The Form
1.3.2 The Code Editor
1.3.3 The Toolbox
1.3.4 The properties and events box

1.4 Your First C# Program

1.4.1 Hello World
1.4.2 Copying the project
1.4.3 Common errors
1.4.4 Properties exercises

1.5 The Solution Explorer
1.6 Program execution
1.7 Number conversion
1.8 Exercise: Simple calculator
1.9 A Console Application
1.10 Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications
1.11 Self Assessment Exercises
1.12 Summary

Chapter 2: Common controls, properties and events

2.1 Introduction
2.2 The Button
2.3 The TextBox

2.3.1 Dealing with text in a TextBox

2.4 The ListBox control
2.5 The CheckedListBox
2.6 The CheckBox
2.7 The RadioButton
2.8 The NumericUpDown control
2.9 Displaying Images – the PictureBox control
2.10 Focus and TabIndex
2.11 Even more controls
2.12 The Web browser control
2.13 The Containers controls
2.14 Listing controls
2.15 Exercise: Dating registration form
2.16 Self Assessment Exercises
2.17 Summary

Chapter 3: Dialogs and forms

3.1 Introduction
3.2 User messages – The Message Box Dialog

3.2.1 Message Reply

3.3 Creating your own dialogs - Prompting for input

3.3.1 User input - Adding forms exercise

3.4 Splash forms and the Timer control
3.5 Accessing controls on other forms
3.6 Self Assessment Exercises
3.7 Summary

Chapter 4: The C# Language – the basics

4.1 Introduction
4.2 Declarations - Variables and data type identifiers

4.2.1 Naming convention
4.2.2 Some declaration examples:

4.3 Assignments and operators

4.3.1 Shortcuts

4.4 Comments
4.5 Converting (casting) data types
4.6 Characters and strings
4.7 Escape sequences
4.8 Logical operations – Boolean data type
4.9 Mathematical Functions
4.10 Date and Time

4.10.1 DateTime properties and methods

4.11 Nullable data type declaration – '?'
4.12 Scope

4.12.1 Block scope
4.12.2 Procedure scope
4.12.3 Class scope

4.13 Self Assessment Exercises
4.14 Summary

Chapter 5: The C# Language – arrays, structures and strings

5.1 Introduction
5.2 Arrays
5.3 Multidimensional arrays
5.4 Structures

5.4.1 The public declaration

5.5 Character arrays and strings
5.6 String manipulation
5.7 String conversion
5.8 String methods

5.8.1 The Contains( ) method
5.8.2 The Substring( ) method
5.8.3 The IndexOf and IndexOfAny() methods
5.8.4 Dealing with spaces– the Trim and Remove methods
5.8.5 The Replace method
5.8.6 The Split method - parsing strings
5.8.7 Upper and lower case methods
5.8.8 Padding strings

5.9 Dynamic Arrays: The ArrayList Class
5.10 Collections – the System.Collection.Generic namespace
5.11 Self Assessment Exercises
5.12 Summary

Chapter 6: Program Flow, Loops and Decisions

6.1 Introduction
6.2 The if statement

6.2.1 The if .. else statement
6.2.2 The if .. else shortcut
6.2.3 The ?? null-coalescing operator
6.2.4 The ?. and ?[] operators

6.3 The switch statement

6.3.1 The goto statement
6.3.2 Switching on a string variable

6.4 Looping - The for (and forr) statements

6.4.1 Code snippets
6.4.2 The foreach statement

6.5 The while and do-while statements
6.6 Exceptions. The try-catch code
6.7 Application.DoEvents method
6.8 Self Assessment Exercises
6.9 Summary

Chapter 7: Object oriented programming: Classes and methods

7.1 Introduction
7.2 Method declaration
7.3 Parameter passing
7.4 Pass by reference – ref and out keywords
7.5 Scope of a method – private and public
7.6 Recursive methods
7.7 Calling an event
7.8 Classes and Namespaces
7.9 Self Assessment Exercises
7.10 Summary

Chapter 8: Object oriented programming – creating objects

8.1 Introduction
8.2 Creating Objects
8.3 Constructors
8.4 The object's ToString method
8.5 Overriding
8.6 Adding Methods to a class
8.7 Method overloading
8.8 Static classes
8.9 Inheritance
8.10 Overriding methods
8.11 GetType methods
8.12 Interfaces
8.13 Self Assessment Exercises
8.14 Summary

Chapter 9: File handling and menu dialogs

9.1 Introduction
9.2 File Types – Text or Binary

9.2.1 Text Files
9.2.2 Binary Files - Typed and Untyped files

9.3 File Dialog Boxes and MenuStrip control

9.3.1 The MenuStrip control a simple RichTextBox editor
9.3.2 The OpenFileDialog
9.3.3 The SaveFileDialog
9.3.4 Open and Save Dialog Box properties
9.3.5 File error handling

9.4 Adding Menu items – About box
9.5 PrintDialog boxes
9.6 RichTextBox editor: cut, paste copy and find
9.7 File and Directory classes
9.8 File handling example

9.8.1 Using StreamWriter and StreamReader objects
9.8.2 Using BinaryReader and BinaryWriter objects

9.9 Self Assessment Exercises
9.10 Summary

Chapter 10: Graphics and Multimedia

10.1 Introduction
10.2 Drawing Graphics
10.3 The Paint event
10.4 Drawing on the form
10.5 The Pen

10.5.1 Line end caps

10.6 The Brush
10.7 Drawing Text
10.8 Basic Shapes
10.9 Other shapes – arcs, pies, polylines and polygons
10.10 Drawing Graphs and Charts
10.11 Multimedia applications

10.11.1 MediaPlayer events

10.12 Launching Windows applications
10.13 Self Assessment Exercises
10.14 Summary

Chapter 11: Debugging

11.1 Introduction
11.2 Writing to the Debug Window
11.3 Using the Debugger

11.3.1 Setting a breakpoint
11.3.2 Pausing the Program

11.4 Conditional Breakpoints
11.5 Restarting - Stepping through your code
11.6 The breakpoint windows

11.6.1 The Local and Auto windows
11.6.2 Watch window
11.6.3 The Immediate window
11.6.4 The Call Stack

11.7 Diagnostic Tool Window
11.8 Performance Tips (PerfTips)
11.9 IntelliTrace
11.10 Self Assessment Exercises
11.11 Summary

Chapter 12: Threading

12.1 Introduction
12.2 Threads
12.3 Writing Thread Code
12.4 Thread sleeping example
12.5 Multiple Threading example
12.6 Accessing form controls from threads
12.7 Asynchronous programming - await, async
12.8 Other thread considerations
12.9 Self Assessment Exercises
12.10 Summary

Chapter 13: Internet Applications

13.1 Introduction
13.2 Client-Server communication
13.3 TCP and UDP
13.4 Creating a TCP server
13.5 Threads
13.6 Creating a TCP client
13.7 TCP Client-Server application
13.8 TCP Client Code
13.9 UDPClient communications – A chat program

13.9.1 UDPClient.Send( )
13.9.2 UDPClient.Receive()
13.9.3 UDP program threads
13.9.4 UDP design
13.9.5 UDP server code
13.9.6 UDP client code

13.10 A Local Chat program

13.10.1 The Second Chat program

13.11 Remote Chat program
13.12 Web requests
13.13 E-mail communications
13.14 File transfer protocol
13.15 Self Assessment Exercises
13.16 Summary

Chapter 14: Introduction to Databases

14.1 Introduction
14.2 A typical database
14.3 Dealing with Databases

14.3.1 Viewing a database in C#

14.4 Creating a new database

14.4.1 Adding the database tables

14.5 Adding relationships – linking the tables
14.6 Adding data to the tables
14.7 Self Assessment Exercises
14.8 Summary

Chapter 15: Displaying databases

15.1 Introduction
15.2 The dataset, data binding and ActiveX Data Objects (ADO.NET)
15.3 Displaying database information

15.3.1 DataGridView
15.3.2 Details view

15.4 Viewing the data set
15.5 Structured Query Language (SQL)
15.6 Query Builder
15.7 LINQ Queries
15.8 Self Assessment Exercises
15.9 Summary

Chapter 16: Accessing a database with code

16.1 Introduction
16.2 Creating the database
16.3 Displaying the database
16.4 Accessing the database from code

16.4.1 Update the Database

16.5 A WPF database
16.6 Self Assessment Exercises
16.7 Summary

Chapter 17: Plotting and Charts

17.1 Introduction
17.2 The Chart control
17.3 Chart elements
17.4 Column Chart example
17.5 Plotting points
17.6 Drawing a graph

17.6.1 Adding a second plot

17.7 Displaying database data on a chart
17.8 Dynamic data display
17.9 Self Assessment Exercises
17.10 Summary

Chapter 18: Dynamic link libraries (DLL) and using Windows API

18.1 Introduction
18.2 Writing a DLL
18.3 Calling the DLL
18.4 Static Classes
18.5 Windows Application Program Interface (API)
18.6 Using Win API calls
18.7 MessageBox API example
18.8 Playing sounds

18.8.1 Which library?

18.9 Unsafe code
18.10 Measuring time
18.11 Self Assessment Exercises:
18.12 Summary

Chapter 19: Sound, Video and DirectX drivers

19.1 Introduction
19.2 DirectX
19.3 The DirectX components

19.3.1 The DirectSound class
19.3.2 The DirectInput class
19.3.3 Cooperative level
19.3.4 The Buffers
19.3.5 The input device

19.4 Playing sounds
19.5 Playing waveforms
19.6 Detecting input devices
19.7 Sound Capture
19.8 Sound capture program
19.9 Video Capture

19.9.1 Video Capture Devices
19.9.2 Video Capture Program
19.9.3 Video Capture Preview

19.10 Streaming Video
19.11 Self Assessment exercises
19.12 Summary

Chapter 20: Smartphone apps for Android

20.1 Introduction
20.2 Obtaining the Xamarin software
20.3 Your First Android Application
20.4 Recap
20.5 Show Message application
20.6 Deploying your application
20.7 Self Assessment Exercises
20.8 Summary

Chapter 21: Example GPS location application

21.1 Introduction
21.2 GPS example

21.2.1 Procedure
21.2.2 Permissions
21.2.3 The GPS Code
21.2.4 Emulate, deploy and run

21.3 SMS messaging
21.4 Sending an e-mail
21.5 Self Assessment Exercises
21.6 Summary

Chapter 22: Conclusion

Concluding remarks for the book.

Appendices

Appendix A: Obtaining the Visual Studio software
Appendix B: Installing the Xamarin Software
Appendix C: Summary of C# Commands

Index

An index for quick reference.

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