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Programming in C#: Exam 70-483 (MCSD) Guide

By : Simaranjit Singh Bhalla, SrinivasMadhav Gorthi
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Programming in C#: Exam 70-483 (MCSD) Guide

By: Simaranjit Singh Bhalla, SrinivasMadhav Gorthi

Overview of this book

Programming in C# is a certification from Microsoft that measures the ability of developers to use the power of C# in decision making and creating business logic. This book is a certification guide that equips you with the skills that you need to crack this exam and promote your problem-solving acumen with C#. The book has been designed as preparation material for the Microsoft specialization exam in C#. It contains examples spanning the main focus areas of the certification exam, such as debugging and securing applications, and managing an application's code base, among others. This book will be full of scenarios that demand decision-making skills and require a thorough knowledge of C# concepts. You will learn how to develop business logic for your application types in C#. This book is exam-oriented, considering all the patterns for Microsoft certifications and practical solutions to challenges from Microsoft-certified authors. By the time you've finished this book, you will have had sufficient practice solving real-world application development problems with C# and will be able to carry your newly-learned skills to crack the Microsoft certification exam to level up your career.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
17
Mock Test 1
18
Mock Test 2
19
Mock Test 3

Parsing and converting

Entity integrity and domain integrity involve allowing valid values into our application for further processing. Valid values include manipulating or managing input provided by a user, rendering it as data that is acceptable to the application. This process may including parsing specific types of data to the type our application accepts, converting data types, and so on.

Parse and TryParse are two statements available across multiple data types within the .NET Framework, for example if you are writing a console application and you want to accept parameters as command-line arguments. In a console application, command-line parameters are always of the string type. So, how do you parse these arguments from the string type to another required type?

In the following example, we know that our first parameter is a Boolean value, but is passed as a string. When...