Visual C# 4.0 Essentials

This book provides detailed information designed to provide everything necessary to gain proficiency in the C# programming language and Visual Studio 2010 development environment. The book begins with a detailed overview of the C# development and runtime environment followed by simple step by step guides to creating both Windows and console based C# applications. Also covered are the fundamentals of the C# programming language, covering variables, constants, operators, flow control, looping, object oriented programming, formatting strings and working with arrays and collection classes. Once the basics of the C# language have been covered the book focuses on the design of GUI applications using C# in conjunction with Visual Studio. Topics include the design of key GUI elements and a detailed overview of event handling. The two final chapters of the book are dedicated to the topic of drawing graphics in C#, including the use of bitmap images to render persistent graphics.