Part I

Part I

Introducing Microsoft Visual C# 2005 2005 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2005

Chapter 1

Welcome to C# 2005 2005

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Use the Visual Studio 2005 programming environment.

• Create a C# 2005 2005 console application.

• Use namespaces.

• Create a C# 2005 2005 Windows Forms application.

Microsoft Visual C# 2005 2005 is Microsoft's powerful, component-oriented language. C# 2005 2005 plays an important role in the architecture of the Microsoft .NET Framework, and some people have drawn comparisons to the role that C played in the development of UNIX. If you already know a language such as C, C++, or Java, you'll find the syntax of C# 2005 2005 reassuringly familiar because it uses the same curly brackets to delimit blocks of code. However, if you are used to programming in other languages, you should soon be able to pick up the syntax and feel of C# 2005 2005; you just need to learn to put the curly brackets and semi-colons in the right place. Hopefully this is just the book to help you!

In Part I, you'll learn the fundamentals of C# 2005 2005. You'll discover how to declare variables and how to use operators such as plus (+) and minus (-) to create values. You'll see how to write methods and pass arguments to methods. You'll also learn how to use selection statements such as if and iteration statements such as while. Finally, you'll understand how C# 2005 2005 uses exceptions to handle errors in a graceful, easy-to-use manner. These topics form the core of C# 2005 2005, and from this solid foundation, you'll progress to more advanced features in Part II through Part VI.