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A Beginner's Guide to C-Sharp-CH13: Parsing Tab and CSV Files (ABGC)
.NET By:Tim R. Wolf 2017-06-17 00:00:00
Chapter 13 (81 pages) Parsing TAB, CSV and Delimited lines. This chapter describes how to take-a-part a delimited file, typically a CSV, and retrieving each found value into a separate variable or cell. C-Sharp has a dedicated "Split" method for this task, but it does not properly process most files .NET
A Beginner's Guide to C-Sharp-CH16: Windows Registry (ABGC)
.NET By:Tim R. Wolf 2017-06-17 00:00:00
Chapter 16 (39 pages) describes how to read and write in the Windows Registry. All aspects from top-level keys to the various different types of records are described. The chapter shows how to sequentially read all keys and how to target specific keys. Special interest is spent on the most common er .NET
A Beginner's Guide to C-Sharp-CH10: Form Controls and Events. Make your programs pretty (ABGC)
.NET By:Tim R. Wolf 2017-06-16 00:00:00
Chapter 10 is a long chapter (121 Pages) that describes how to make a Windows-Form program, and all the controls needed to give users a great experience. Topics: Properly ending a program (Close), Auto-close, Buttons, Text fields, setting field properties (bold, etc.) at run-time, Showing a panel, .NET
A Beginner's Guide to C-Sharp-CH17: Reading Excel and MS Access Files (ABGC)
.NET By:Tim R. Wolf 2017-06-17 00:00:00
Chapter 17 (43 pages) shows how to read data from an Excel Sheet or from an Access database. See Chapter 25 for MSSQL. Topics: Adding the COM library. Loading an Excel object. Opening a sheet looping through a sheet skipping title rows. Using Microsoft Access to populate a combo-box. Building an .NET
A Beginner's Guide to C-Sharp-CH21: Formatting numbers Phone Numbers A real @Proper routine (ABGC)
.NET By:Tim R. Wolf 2017-06-17 00:00:00
Chapter 21 (83 pages) starts out by showing how to format numbers and dates. Then it moves into more sophisticated routines, such as formatting phone numbers, street addresses and proper names. These routines are vastly more powerful than you would find in native C#. For example, phone-numbers, suc .NET
A Beginner's Guide to C-Sharp-CH08: Building and using Class Libraries. Never write a Mid-string again! (ABGC)
.NET By:Tim R. Wolf 2017-06-16 00:00:00
Chapter 8 (49 pages) shows how to take previously written functions and roll them into a re-usable class library. These functions then become "Methods" in the truest sense of the word and the methods/class can be linked into any program that needs them. In otherwords, you will never have to write a .NET
A Beginner's Guide to C-Sharp-Ch09: Variable Scope, Local vs Global Variables How to pass between Forms (ABGC)
.NET By:Tim R. Wolf 2017-06-16 00:00:00
Chapter 9 (45 pages) is a short, but important chapter that discusses how variables have a "scope" a time-to-live. Understanding this helps write tight and efficient code, and helps keep the program's size from exploding in Task Manager. Important concepts on how to pass variables to other forms w .NET
A Beginner's Guide to C-Sharp-CH12: ASCII Files! Reading and writing (ABGC)
.NET By:Tim R. Wolf 2017-06-17 00:00:00
Volume 2: Chapter 12 (58 pages + Appendixes) shows how to read and write ASCII Files. All details, traps, and Error-processing are described. Although ASCII files are somewhat old-fashioned, they are still commonly used, especially when transferring data from one computer system to another. Skills i .NET
A Beginner's Guide to C-Sharp-CH11: Calling secondary Forms - Make your program a multi-form program the right way (ABGC)
.NET By:Tim R. Wolf 2017-06-16 00:00:00
Chapter 11 (86 pages) shows how to open or call secondary forms in your program. The chapter shows both the wrong ways (as commonly-seen on the Internet), as well as the right ways, with all the details and reasons explained in clear, concise language. Topics: Opening a secondary form, re-opening w .NET
A Beginner's Guide to C-Sharp-CH15: XML and App.Config (ABGC)
.NET By:Tim R. Wolf 2017-06-17 00:00:00
Chapter 15 (25 pages) describes how to read XML files, with a particular emphasis on a special type called "config.xml". Config files can often replace the more complicated INI files from the previous chapter. Topics: App.Config preference files. Automatic parsing of App.Config. Sequential XML proc .NET
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