- Designed to be simple and efficient, C# (now version 5) is the all-purpose programming language you can use for desktop application development (Windows with .NET, and Linux plus Mac OS X with the Mono Project and other ports), in embedded systems, and even on the web with ASP.NET.
Note: C# will immediately look familiar to anyone who's ever programmed in C, C++ or Java.
C# 2.0 is the latest standardized version (as ECMA-334). The biggest changes to the language came with C# 3.0 and the integration of functional programming techniques and constructs (most notably LINQ and lambda expressions).
Because C# is the closest language to the world's largest programming library that the .NET framework is, nearly anything you can imagine can be devised with C#-based applications, including having modules outsourced to programmers using any of the over 20 CLI-supported languages!- Rather than a structured tutorial on learning C# and .NET, this is an unassorted collection of quirks, tips, and tricks as we come across them during desktop and web development work.
- Here's the full listing of tutorials: read through it for a great overview, or refresh your
memory. For in-depth info, just click on the corresponding link! - Use a Timer to get the functionality from JavaScript setTimeout() and setInterval() functions.
- Simulate user typing / pressing keyboard shortcuts with SendKeys and for any key combination!
- Deselect ComboBox text after changing index and programmatically focusing on another control.
- Change (or hide) menu shortcuts, especially with uncommon keys named "OEM"-something.
- Read text strings aloud from your application with Windows' built-in text-to-speech functionality.
- Count the number of a times a string appears in another with literal string or regular expressions.
- Split a string with another string by using an overload of Split() (which takes a character argument).
- Pad extra zeros before single digits, or after the decimal, using ToString() and a format provider.
- Get current date/time broken down into simple members with the System.DateTime construct.
- Get names of the days of the week spelled out, in your users' OS regional and language settings.
- Get the names of the months spelled out (or three-letter abbreviation) in the OS / user's locale.
- Get a listing of files in a folder by passing a full or relative path, and an extension filter (like ".txt").
- Check if a folder exists with a single line of code; likewise, check if a file exists with one statement!
- Determine which item was clicked in a menu: especially useful for dynamically generated menus!
- Create a JavaScript-like alert() method in C# to quickly (and lazily!) debug projects in Visual Studio.
- Launch a .Net application full screen, re-position it, and go back to a normal window.
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