The best way to learn a new programming language is to build significant new applications with it. That's why programming books trumpet their case studies. Unfortunately, all too often those case studies consist of a chapter tucked away at the end. You invariably leave the restaurant hungry.

Check out C# Professional Projects. The heart of this is book is six start-to-finish case studies, each presented across multiple chapters. Together, they give you hands-on experience with all four W's of contemporary development: Windows, web apps, web services, and wireless.

In the most extensive project - more than 170 pages long - you'll create an entire airline reservations portal, from the earliest design stages through application forms, business logic, customer transactions, debugging, testing, deployment, administration, and security. Another e-commerce portal introduces you to web services development. A Windows application walks you through ADO.NET database integration. An education and training application leverages the external power of Microsoft Word.

Contents

Introduction

1. Introduction to C#
2. Handling Data
3. Professional Project 1 : Creating a Customer Maintenance Project
4. Professional Project 2 : Creating the Employee Records System Project
5. Professional Project 3 : Creating a Creative Learning Project
6. Professional Project 4 : Creating an Airline Reservation Portal
7. Professional Project 5 : Creating a Web Portal a Bookstore
8. Professional Project 6 : Creating a Mobile Application
9. Beyond the Labs
10. Appendixes

Index