The Oxygene Primer

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Thanks are due to Christian Stelzmann for producing this comprehensive introduction to the product. It is the Oxygene for .NET version of Crash Course Delphi.

Part 1 Why Oxygene? Oxygene - A .NET language Getting Oxygene Part 2 The Development Environment Creating a project First look: The Design Mode Placing Controls on the Form Changing Properties Code Editor Running the Project Part 3 Oxygene Language Preliminary Work: A Glimpse of Classes Variables and Types Example: A Small Calculator Declaring a Variable Type Inference Working with Variables Part 4 Control Structures begin and end if, case and Boolean Expressions The if Statement Boolean Expressions The case Statement Loops The For Loop The Repeat-Until Loop The While-Do Loop Controlling Loops The Loop Statement

Part 5 Methods Call by Reference Call by Value Returning Values Out Parameters Why Methods? Part 6 Arrays The for each Loop Arrays as Parameters Part 7 Number Representation Representation of Integers Representation of Rational Numbers Calculator vs. Comma Casts Overflows Part 8 Object-oriented Programming Self Using a Class / Creating an Instance Own Classes vs. Built-in Classes Properties and Fields Fields Getter and Setter Encapsulation and Visibility Summary Type Visibility and Namespaces Namespaces

Part 8 cont Object-oriented Programming (cont) Inheritance The Idea The Basic Class (aka Abstract Classes) Deriving One Class From Another First Benefits: Implement One, Get Two Squeezing Circles In Our GUI (and "Extended Constructor Calls") Intermezzo: Make The GUI Ready For More Adding objects (aka "Virtual Methods") To Override Or Not To Override In A Nutshell: Records Interfaces Implementing an Interface Who Do You Implement? matching Importance of Interfaces Part 9 Generics Generic Classes Generic Constraints Generic Methods Returning "Generic" Values Frequently Used: List<T> Look What I Can Do! (aka "BindingList<T>")

See Also

The Prism Primer: Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 – Part 6 – Part 7 – Part 8 – Part 9

For things not directly related to the language but more to the .NET Framework, you should refer to the MSDN library, which offers exhaustive information about the classes in the .NET Framework and often provides many source code examples. You can download it as part of the Windows SDK or use the Online Version.

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