Microsoft Visual C# Step by Step (Developer Reference) - Softcover

Your hands-on guide to Microsoft Visual C# fundamentals with Visual Studio 2017 Expand your expertise--and teach yourself the fundamentals of programming with the latest version of Visual C# with Visual Studio 2017. 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 2017 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

John Sharp is a principal technologist for CM Group Ltd, a software development and consultancy company in the United Kingdom. He is well versed as a software consultant, developer, author, and trainer, with more than 35 years of experience, ranging from Pascal programming on CP/M and C/Oracle application development on various flavors of UNIX to the design of C# and JavaScript distributed applications and development on Windows 10 and Microsoft Azure. He also spends much of his time writing courseware for Microsoft, focusing on areas such as Data Science using R and Python, Big Data processing with Spark and CosmosDB, and scalable application architecture with Azure.