This page contains the code for the 2008 edition and tells you where you can get the code for the 2010 edition of C# For Dummies.

Code Examples for C# 2008 For Dummies

The book includes well over 100 small example programs, each focused on demonstrating one idea, one technique, or one piece of C#. They used to be provided on a CD, but this time around we decided to put them on a Web site. You can download them below.

NEW: More Examples - See below.

Notes for Downloading

Downloads

Download everything for both editions of the book:

• Click HERE to download all of the example code for C# 2008 for Dummies (466K download).

• And visit Bill Sempf's site for the code new to C# 2010 All-In-One For Dummies.

• For a table mapping chapters in the 2010 edition to the 2008 edition, see here.

Combine the two bundles of code with the table mapping chapters in 2010 to 2008 to have all of the code. Note that all of the 2008 code is still perfectly relevant with the 2010 edition.

Download the code for a particular 2008 edition chapter:

• Code for Chapter 1, Creating Your First C# Application

• Code for Chapter 2, Living with Variability

• Code for Chapter 3, Smooth Operators - Chapter 3 has no code.

• Code for Chapter 4, Getting into the Program Flow

• Code for Chapter 5, Lining Up Your Ducks with Collections

• Code for Chapter 6, Pulling Strings

• Code for Chapter 7, Showing Some Class

• Code for Chapter 8, We Have Our Methods

• Code for Chapter 9, Let Me Say This About this

• Code for Chapter 10, Object-Oriented Programming -- What's It All About? - Chapter 10 has no code.

• Code for Chapter 11, Holding a Class Responsible

• Code for Chapter 12, Inheritance -- Is That All I Get?

• Code for Chapter 13, Poly-what-ism?

• Code for Chapter 14, Interfacing with the Interface

• Code for Chapter 15, Delegating Those Important Events

• Code for Chapter 16, Mary Had a Little Lambda Expression

• Code for Chapter 17, LINQing Up with Query Expressions

• Code for Chapter 18, The 10 Most Common Build Errors - Chapter 18 has no code.

Code for the nine Bonus Chapters is included when you download a bonus chapter.

More Examples

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Download source code you can build yourself.

Notes for Downloaders

Note: All downloads are in the form of .ZIP files. You'll need to extract them to a directory on your hard drive.

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