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Book 1: The Basics of C# Programming 5
Chapter 1: Creating Your First C# Console Application 7
Chapter 2: Living with Variability -- Declaring Value-Type Variables 25
Chapter 3: Pulling Strings 49
Chapter 4: Smooth Operators 81
Chapter 5: Getting into the Program Flow 95
Chapter 6: Lining Up Your Ducks with Collections 125
Chapter 7: Stepping through Collections 155
Chapter 8: Buying Generic 187
Chapter 9: Some Exceptional Exceptions 209
Chapter 10: Creating Lists of Items with Enumerations 229
Book 2: Object-Oriented C# Programming 241
Chapter 1: Showing Some Class 243
Chapter 2: We Have Our Methods 261
Chapter 3: Let Me Say This about this 287
Chapter 4: Holding a Class Responsible 303
Chapter 5: Inheritance: Is That All I Get? 333
Chapter 6: Poly-what-ism? 353
Chapter 7: Interfacing with the Interface 379
Chapter 8: Delegating Those Important Events 407
Chapter 9: Can I Use Your Namespace in the Library? 433
Chapter 10: Improving Productivity with Named and Optional Parameters 465
Chapter 11: Interacting with Structures 475
Book 3: Designing for C# 497
Chapter 1: Writing Secure Code 499
Chapter 2: Accessing Data 509
Chapter 3: Fishing the File Stream 525
Chapter 4: Accessing the Internet 543
Chapter 5: Creating Images 559
Chapter 6: Programming Dynamically! 575
Book 4: A Tour of Visual Studio 587
Chapter 1: Getting Started with Visual Studio 589
Chapter 2: Using the Interface 603
Chapter 3: Customizing Visual Studio 627
Book 5: Windows Development with WPF 639
Chapter 1: Introducing WPF 641
Chapter 2: Understanding the Basics of WPF 653
Chapter 3: Data Binding in WPF 681
Chapter 4: Practical WPF 707
Chapter 5: Programming for Windows 10 and Above 721
Book 6: Web Development with ASP.NET 743
Chapter 1: Creating a Basic ASP.NET Core App 745
Chapter 2: Employing the Razor Markup Language 761
Chapter 3: Generating and Consuming Data 775
Index 795

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