C# 2005 for Dummies
Chapter One
Creating Your First C#
Windows Program
In This Chapter
* What's a program? What is C#? Where am I?
* Creating a Windows program
* Making sure your Visual Studio 2005 C# is in tune
In this chapter, I explain a little bit about computers, computer languages,
C#, and Visual Studio 2005. Then, I take you through the steps for creating
a very simple Windows program written in C#.
Getting a Handle on Computer
Languages, C#, and .NET
A computer is an amazingly fast, but incredibly stupid servant. Computers
will do anything you ask them to (within reason), and they do it extremely
fast - and they're getting faster all the time. As of this writing, the common
PC processing chip can handle well over a billion instructions per second.
That's billion, with a "b."
Unfortunately, computers don't understand anything that resembles a human
language. Oh, you may come back at me and say something like, "Hey, my
telephone lets me dial my friend by just speaking his name. I kn ... read full excerpt from: C# 2005 For Dummies ebook
