Your hands-on guide to Visual C# fundamentals

Expand your expertise--and teach yourself the fundamentals of Microsoft Visual C# 2013. If you have previous programming experience but are new to Visual C# 2013, this tutorial delivers the step-by-step guidance and coding exercises you need to master core topics and techniques.

Discover how to:
• Create and debug C# applications in Visual Studio 2013
• Work with variables, identifiers, statements, operators, and methods
• Create interfaces and define abstract classes
• Write robust code that can catch and handle exceptions
• Display and edit data using data binding with the Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework
• Respond to user input and touch screen gestures
• Handle events arising from multiple sources
• Develop your first Windows 8.1 apps

John Sharp, a principal technologist at an industry research company, has extensive experience with a range of programming technologies. He is an expert on developing applications with the Microsoft .NET Framework, and the author of Windows Communication Foundation 4 Step by Step.