Visual C# Samples

This section contains abstracts that describe the samples that are included with Visual Studio. You can access the samples on the Visual Studio main menu by clicking Help and then clicking Samples. The samples themselves are located locally at drive:\Program FIles\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Samples. In addition, the Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) includes technology samples, application samples, and QuickStart tutorials that demonstrate .NET Framework features and Visual C# code.

The QuickStart Tutorials are the fastest way to understand what the .NET Framework technology offers leading-edge developers. The QuickStart tutorials include a series of samples and supporting documentation designed to quickly acquaint you with the syntax, architecture, and power of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework. The QuickStart tutorials include samples on ASP.NET, Windows Forms applications, and many how-to applications that explain the most compelling features of the .NET Framework technology.  For more information, see Samples and QuickStarts.

Introductory Samples

Anonymous Delegates Sample	Demonstrates the use of unnamed delegates to reduce application complexity.
Arrays Sample	Shows how to use arrays.
Collection Classes Sample	Shows how to make non-generic collection classes that can be used with the foreach statement.
Generics Sample (C#)	Shows how to make generic collection classes that can be used with the foreach statement.
Command Line Parameters Sample	Demonstrates simple command-line processing and array indexing.
Conditional Methods Sample	Demonstrates conditional methods, which provide a powerful mechanism by which calls to methods can be included or omitted depending on whether a symbol is defined.
Delegates Sample	Shows how delegates are declared, mapped, and combined.
Events Sample	Shows how to use events in C#.
Explicit Interface Implementation Sample	Demonstrates how to explicitly implement interface members.
Hello World Sample	A Hello World application.
Indexers Sample	Shows how to use array notation to access an object.
Indexed Properties Sample	Shows how to implement a class that uses indexed properties. Indexed properties enable you to use a class that represents an array-like collection of several different kinds of things.
Properties Sample	Shows how properties are declared and used; also demonstrates abstract properties.
Structs Sample	Shows how to use structs in C#.
Operator Overloading Sample	Shows how user-defined classes can overload operators.
User-Defined Conversions Sample	Shows how to define conversions to and from user-defined types.
Versioning Sample	Demonstrates versioning in C# by using the override and new keywords.
Yield Sample	Demonstrates the yield keyword to filter items in a collection.

Intermediate and Advanced Samples

Attributes Sample	Shows how to create custom attribute classes, use them in code, and query them through reflection.
COM Interop Part 1 Sample	Shows how to use C# to interoperate with COM objects.
COM Interop Part 2 Sample	Shows how to a use a C# server together with a C++ COM client.
Libraries Sample	Shows how to use compiler options to create a DLL from multiple source files; also, how to use the library in other programs.
Nullable Sample	Demonstrates value types that can be set to null.
OLE DB Sample	Demonstrates how to use a Microsoft Access database from C#. It shows how you can create a dataset and add tables to it from a database.
Partial Types Sample	Demonstrates how classes and structures can be defined in multiple C# source-code files.
Platform Invoke Sample	Shows how to call exported DLL functions from C#.
Security Sample	Discusses .NET Framework security and shows two ways to modify security permissions in C#: using permission classes and permission attributes.
Threading Sample	Demonstrates various thread activities such as creating and executing a thread, synchronizing threads, interacting between threads, and using a thread pool.
Unsafe Code Sample	Shows how to use pointers.
XML Documentation Sample	Shows how to document code by using XML.

See Also

Other Resources

Samples and QuickStarts

Visual C# Walkthroughs

LINQ C# Samples