C# programming references and helpful links

This section provides reference material about C# keywords, operators, compiler errors, and warnings.

Most of this section assumes that you already know something about C# and general programming concepts. If you are a complete beginner with programming or with C#, you might want to visit the C# Developer Center, where you can find many tutorials, samples and videos to help you get started.

The .NET Framework class library is a library of classes, interfaces, and value types that provide access to system functionality. It is the foundation on which .NET Framework applications, components, and controls are built. The namespaces and namespace categories in the class library are listed in the following table and documented in detail in this reference.

C# Learning Resources and Tutorials . These are for both the beginner and the experienced developer.

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C# / C Sharp by API examples (example source code) Organized by topic

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Array Collections File Keyword String .NET Cast Class Compression Data Directive Enum Exception If Interface Lambda LINQ Loop Method Number Process Property Regex Sort StringBuilder Struct Switch Time Windows WPF Classes. Imagine this. A program is an abstract machine.As it executes, its parts are in movement, in constant motion, moving towards a result.

Keyboard shortcuts are assigned according to different keyboard mapping schemes. Your scheme is set the first time you start Visual Studio. After that you can add schemes and assign new keyboard shortcuts on the Tools / Options / Environment / Keyboard options page.

119 time-saving Keyboard Shortcuts for Visual Studio 2010. Extensive up-to-date reference lists of Keyboard Shortcuts/Hotkeys for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Large Shortcut Database with common applications.

This is the twenty-sixth in a series of blog posts I'm doing on the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Today's blog post covers some useful debugging tips that you can use with Visual Studio.

In the software development life cycle, testing and defect fixing take more time than actually code writing. In general, debugging is a process of finding out defects in the program and fixing them. Defect fixing comes after the debugging, or you can say they are co-related.

Discusses the fundamentals of using the Visual Studio debugger. Topics include debugging basics, execution control, attaching to a running program, Just-In-Time debugging, launching the debugger automatically, dumps, breakpoints, inspecting your program, handling exceptions, Edit and Continue, and using expressions in the debugger.