Summary

In this hour you learned how to use Visual C# .NET's decision constructs to make decisions in Visual C# .NET code. You learned how to use if statements to execute code when an expression evaluates to true and to use else to run code when the expression evaluates to false. For more complicated decisions, you learned how to use else...if to add further comparisons to the decision construct and nest if structures for more flexibility.

In addition to if, you learned how to use switch to create powerful decision constructs to evaluate a single expression for many possible values. Finally, you learned how you can check for multiple possible values using a fall-through case statement.

Decision-making constructs are often the backbone of applications. ...

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