Bonus Chapters for C# 2008 For Dummies

Eighteen fascinating C# chapters in the book just aren't enough. So here are seven more!

Note: See the Notes for Downloaders below the download list for some useful information.

Downloads

Download all of the bonus chapters. Includes the code examples mentioned in the chapters.

(Note that this is a fairly big download--21.6 MB--so it takes a minute or two of broadband time.)

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Or download individual chapters:

• Bonus Chapter 1. Can I Use Your Namespace in the Library? -- C# namespaces, assemblies, and class libraries.
• Bonus Chapter 2. Some Exceptional Exceptions -- error-handling in C#.
• Bonus Chapter 3. Fishing the File Stream -- doing input/output in C#.
• Bonus Chapter 4. Oh, the Value and the Reference Can Be Friends -- how the C# "structure" (struct) unifies the C# type system.
• Bonus Chapter 5. Getting the Hang of Visual Studio 2008 -- creating files, compiling code, designing user interfaces, and more.
• Bonus Chapter 6. Buying Generic -- creating generic classes, methods, interfaces, and delegates, which define cookie-cutter "templates" that can be instantiated for various data types. Much like the C# collection classes, which can be instantiated for int, string, Student, etc.
• Bonus Chapter 7. Tip-Toeing Through the Collections -- "iterating" (stepping through) C# collections.

But that's not all. The site also provides numerous articles describing various C# features I didn't have room for in the book.

Notes for Downloaders

Note: The downloads below present the chapter files in two formats. The .DOC file is provided for downloaders who have a version of Microsoft Word prior to Word 2007. The .XML file opens in Word 2007 if you have it - this file is in the WordML format, a special language for representing Word documents as XML code. Just note that this .XML file is a Word-based chapter.

Note: Because it contains numerous graphics, Bonus Chapter 5 is a large download: 21 MB even compressed.

Note: All downloads are .ZIP files. You need to extract these to a directory on your hard drive.

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