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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

PART I Understanding Visual Studio 2010 Essentials

1 Introducing Visual Studio 2010

What Is Visual Studio 2010 About?

Automatically Generated Code

Rapid Coding Experience

Everything at Your Fingertips

Customizability and Extensibility

Installing Visual Studio 2010

Navigating the Visual Studio 2010 Environment

The Menu

Toolbar

Work Area

Toolbox

Solution Explorer

Status Bar

Managing VS Windows

Expanding and Collapsing Windows

Docking Windows

Floating Windows

Tabbed Windows

Closing and Opening Windows

Modifying Environment Settings after Setup

Exporting Selected Environment Settings

Importing Selected Environment Settings

Resetting All Settings

Familiarization with Visual Studio Project Types

Windows Projects

Web Projects

Office Projects

SharePoint Projects

Database Projects

Summary

2 Learning Just Enough C# or VB.NET: Basic Syntax

Starting a Bare-Bones Project

Examining the Code Skeleton

The Main Method

The Program Class

The FirstProgram Namespace

An Overview of the VS Code Editor

Class and Member Locators

Bookmarks

Setting Editor Options

Saving Time with Snippets

Coding Expressions and Statements

Making Intellisense Work for You

Running Programs

Primitive Types and Expressions

Enums

Branching Statements

Loops

Summary

3 Learning Just Enough C# and VB.NET: Types and Members

Creating Classes

Class Syntax

Class Inheritance

The class Snippet

Writing Methods

Declaring and Using a Method

Declaring Parameters and Passing Arguments

Returning Data and Using Method Results

Method Snippets

Coding Fields and Properties

Declaring and Using Fields

Declaring and Using Properties

The Property Snippet

Summary

4 Learning Just Enough C# and VB.NET: Intermediate Syntax

Understanding Delegates and Events

Events

Delegates

Event, Delegate, and Handler Code Completion

Implementing Interfaces

Creating an Interface

Making Classes Implement the Interface

Writing Code That Uses an Interface

The interface Snippet

Applying Arrays and Generics

Coding Arrays

Coding Generics

Summary

PART II Learning the VS 2010 Environment

5 Creating and Building Projects

Constructing Solutions and Projects

Creating a New Project

Navigating the Solution Explorer

Examining Property Settings

Assembly Name

Default Namespace

Target Framework

Output Type

Startup Object

Icon and Manifest

Assembly Information

Referencing Assemblies

Adding a .NET Assembly Reference

Managing Assembly References

Referencing Your Own Class Libraries

Using Code in Class Libraries

Compiling Applications

Building Solutions/Projects

Rebuilding Solutions/Projects

Cleaning Solutions/Projects

Managing Dependencies and Build Order

Managing Compilation Settings

Navigating a Project with Class View

Using the Class Designer

Class Designer Visualization

Class Designer Code Generation

Summary

6 Debugging with Visual Studio

Example Code for This Chapter

Development-Time Code Tools

Configuring Debug Mode

Setting Breakpoints

Creating a Breakpoint

Customizing a Breakpoint

Managing Breakpoints

Stepping Through Code

Inspecting Application State

Locals and Autos Windows

Watch Windows

The Immediate Window

The Call Stack Window

The Quick Watch Window

Watching Variables with Pin To Source

Working with IntelliTrace

Solving Problems with VS Debugger

A Program with Bugs

Finding the Bug

Fixing the First Bug

Debugging and Resolving NullReferenceException Problems

Summary

7 Working with Data

Working with Databases

Introduction to Server Explorer

Creating a Database

Adding Tables

Relating Tables with Foreign Keys

Adding Stored Procedures

Configuring Database Options

Learning Language Integrated Query (LINQ)

Querying Object Collections with LINQ

Creating a LINQ Projection with Anonymous Types

Using LINQ to Sort Collection Results

Handling Data with LINQ to SQL

Setting Up LINQ to SQL

Working with the LINQ to SQL Designer

Introduction to Querying LINQ to SQL

Performing Queries on Multiple Tables

Inserting Data with LINQ to SQL

Updating Data with LINQ to SQL

Deleting Data with LINQ to SQL

Summary

PART III Building Programs with VS 2010

8 Building Desktop Applications with WPF

Starting a WPF Project

Understanding Layout

Grid Layout

StackPanel Layout

DockPanel Layout

WrapPanel Layout

Canvas Layout

Using WPF Controls

Managing Windows for Controls

Setting Properties

Handling Events

Coding Event Handlers

Working with Data in WPF

Setting Up a Data Source

Configuring a ComboBox

Reading and Saving Data

Using the DataGrid

Summary

9 Creating Web Applications with ASP.NET MVC

Understanding ASP.NET MVC

Starting an ASP.NET MVC Project

Creating the Models

Building Controllers

Displaying Views

Looking Inside a View

Organizing View Files

Assigning MasterPage Files

Partial Views (a.k.a. User Controls)

Managing Routing

Building a Customer Management Application

Creating a Repository

Creating a Customer Controller

Displaying a Customer List

Adding a New Customer

Updating Existing Customers

Deleting a Customer

Summary

10 Designing Silverlight Applications

Starting a Silverlight Project

Navigating the Silverlight Designer

Using Silverlight Controls

Running Silverlight Out-of-Browser (OOB)

Deploying Silverlight Applications

Summary

11 Deploying Web Services with WCF

Starting a WCF Project

Specifying a Contract with WCF Interfaces

Implementing Logic with WCF Classes

Hosting a WCF Service

Following General Hosting Procedures

Installing IIS 7 on Windows 7

Creating a Web Site on IIS 7 on Windows 7

Deploying the WCF Service to IIS

Communicating with a WCF Service

Creating a Service Reference

Coding Web Service Calls

Deploying a Client That Consumes a Web Service

Creating a Web Service in a Web Site

Summary

PART IV Enhancing the VS 2010 Experience

12 Customizing the Development Environment

Implementing Custom Templates

Creating New Project Templates

Creating New Item Templates

Creating Custom Snippets

Creating a New Snippet

Managing the Snippet Library

Writing Macros

Recording a Macro

Saving a Macro

Editing Macros

Summary

13 Extending Visual Studio 2010

Creating a Visual Studio Add-In

Running the Add-In Project Wizard

Examining an Add-In Wizard Solution

Drilling into the Connect Class

Adding Functionality to an Add-In

Reviewing the OnConnection Method

Implementing the Exec Method

Setting Status with QueryStatus

Deploying an Add-In

Where to Go Next

Summary

PART V Appendixes

A Introduction to XML

VS 2010 XML Editor

XML Prefixes

XML Elements

Attributes

Namespaces

The XML Menu

Configuring XML Options

Summary

B Introduction to XAML

Starting a WPF Project

Elements as Classes

Attributes as Properties

Executing the XAML Document

Property Elements

Markup Extensions

Summary

Index