Bill Sempf - C# 5.0 All-in-One For Dummies

C# 5.0 All-in-One For Dummies

Published by
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
111 River Street
Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774
www.wiley.com

Copyright 2013 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey

Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey

Published simultaneously in Canada

No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, (978) 750-8400, fax (978) 646-8600. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030, (201) 748-6011, fax (201) 748-6008, or online at http://www.wiley.com/go/permissions .

Trademarks: Wiley, the Wiley logo, For Dummies, the Dummies Man logo, A Reference for the Rest of Us!, The Dummies Way, Dummies Daily, The Fun and Easy Way, Dummies.com, Making Everything Easier, and related trade dress are trademarks or registered trademarks of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the United States and other countries, and may not be used without written permission. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. is not associated with any product or vendor mentioned in this book.

Limit of Liability/Disclaimer of Warranty: The publisher and the author make no representations or warranties with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the contents of this work and specifically disclaim all warranties, including without limitation warranties of fitness for a particular purpose. No warranty may be created or extended by sales or promotional materials. The advice and strategies contained herein may not be suitable for every situation. This work is sold with the understanding that the publisher is not engaged in rendering legal, accounting, or other professional services. If professional assistance is required, the services of a competent professional person should be sought. Neither the publisher nor the author shall be liable for damages arising herefrom. The fact that an organization or Website is referred to in this work as a citation and/or a potential source of further information does not mean that the author or the publisher endorses the information the organization or Website may provide or recommendations it may make. Further, readers should be aware that Internet Websites listed in this work may have changed or disappeared between when this work was written and when it is read.

For general information on our other products and services, please contact our Customer Care Department within the U.S. at 877-762-2974, outside the U.S. at 317-572-3993, or fax 317-572-4002.

For technical support, please visit www.wiley.com/techsupport .

Wiley publishes in a variety of print and electronic formats and by print-on-demand. Some material included with standard print versions of this book may not be included in e-books or in print-on-demand. If this book refers to media such as a CD or DVD that is not included in the version you purchased, you may download this material at http://booksupport.wiley.com . For more information about Wiley products, visit www.wiley.com .

Library of Congress Control Number: 2012955833

ISBN 978-1-118-38536-4 (pbk); ISBN 978-1-118-46205-8 (ePub); ISBN 978-1-118-60323-9 (eMobi); ISBN 978-1-118-60344-4 (ePDF)

Manufactured in the United States of America

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

About the Authors

Hi, my name is Bill Sempf, and I am a software architect. Although I used to hate the term architect, its clearly the only thing out there that defines what I do. My breadth of experience includes business and technical analysis, software design, development, testing, server management and maintenance, and security. In my 17 years of professional experience, I have participated in the creation of well over 200 applications for large and small companies, managed the software infrastructure of two Internet service providers, coded complex software happily in every environment imaginable, and made mainframes talk to cellphones. In short, I make the technology products that people are using every day play nicely together.

I started playing with computers in 1979 and havent looked back since. In 1985, I was helping my father (also named Bill) manage Apple IIe systems at the local library. Since then, I have built applications for the likes of Bank One, Lucent Technologies, Nationwide Insurance, and Sears, Roebuck and Co. I am the author of Windows 8 Programming with HTML5 For Dummies and Visual Basic 2008 For Dummies; a coauthor of Effective Visual Studio.NET, Professional ASP.NET Web Services, and Professional VB.NET; a frequent contributor to MSDN, Builder.com, Hardcore Web Services, Cloud Computing Journal, Inside Web Development Journal, and Intranet Journal; and have recently been an invited speaker for the ACM and IEEE, DevEssentials, the International XML Web Services Expo, and the Association of Information Technology Professionals. I am a graduate of The Ohio State University with a bachelors of science degree in business administration, a Microsoft Certified Professional, a Certified Internet Business Strategist, and a Certified Internet Webmaster. My company is Products Of Innovative New Technology (usually called POINT), and you can reach me at bill@pointWeb.net .

Chuck Sphar escaped the Microsoft C++ documentation camps after six years of hard labor as a senior technical writer. You can reach Chuck for praise and minor nits at csharp@chucksphar.com . His C# material web page (references throughout the book) is http://csharp102.info .

Stephen R. Davis, who goes by the name Randy, lives with his wife and son near Dallas, Texas.

Dedication

This edition is dedicated to the great folks at the For Dummies team at John Wiley & Sons. They genuinely care about creating awesome books for the developer community that are both technically sound and mildly humorous. Cant beat that combination.

Also, for Gabrielle, Adam, and Kaelan, who had to put up with another six months of Daddy hiding in the basement.

Authors Acknowledgments

A lot of people work to make a book of this size. Dont think, just because the authors are listed on the front page, that they conceived every idea in the book. It takes a community.

First, thanks to Chuck Sphar and Randy Davis for the fantastic source material that is the backbone of this book. I learned much just editing the first two minibooks for use in this All-in-One. Also, thanks to Kelly Ewing and Katie Feltman for their editorial expertise.

A number of community members had a huge part in the creation of this book. Carey Payette and Phil Japikse built Book V (about WPF) basically from the goodness of their hearts, and I couldnt have completed it without them my WPF skills arent worth writing about. These two get the award for Biggest Contribution, and I thank them both.

Chuck Sphar, aside from being one of the original authors of the book, also tech edited this edition. He did a truly awesome job and discovered many a hidden gotcha. Thanks to him for his effort. As always, thanks to my wife, Gabrielle, for her support. Sometimes I just cant believe how lucky I am.