C# 4.0 Unleashed

Description

• Copyright 2011
• Edition: 1st

• Book
• ISBN-10: 0-672-33079-2
• ISBN-13: 978-0-672-33079-7

C# 4.0 Unleashed is a practical reference focusing on the C# language and the .NET platform as a whole. While covering the language in lots of detail, it also provides enough coverage of various popular .NET technologies and techniques (such as debugging) for the reader to be successful on the .NET platform. The in-depth coverage of the language features is crucial to the success of a developer. Knowing exactly where and why to use certain language features can boost efficiency significantly. This book differs from other works by going into enough depth on how things work, while not being a clone of the formal language specification. Concise anecdotes with concrete samples illustrate how certain language features behave, and also point out possible caveats in using them. On the side of platform coverage, the author provides a gentle introduction to the wide landscape of the .NET platform, following a logical structure that reflects the high-level architecture of an application: presentation, logic, data, connectivity, etc. In the .NET part of the book there's coverage of relevant new technologies such as cloud computing, modeling, and parallel programming - things that will gain much more attention moving forward.

Provides valuable insight into the C# language and the .NET Framework - not just "what" but also the "how" and "why" of the language and framework features

Covers using C# with new major technologies, such as cloud computing, SharePoint, and ASP.NET MVC

Author is Microsoft insider

Will be day and date with the release of C# 4.0

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Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Part I Introduction

Chapter 1 Introducing the .NET Platform 5

A Historical Perspective5

    Win32 Programming in C 6

    Raising the Abstraction Level with MFC and C++ 6

    Component-Driven Development with COM 7

    Windows Development for the Masses in Visual Basic 7

    Reaching Out to the Web with Windows DNA8

    Reaching Out to Java with J++8

    Time for Lightning8

A 10,000-Feet View of the .NET Platform 9

    The .NET Platform 9

The Common Language Infrastructure

The Multilanguage Aspect of .NET

Introducing .NET Assemblies

The Common Type System Explained

    What’s Type Safety?

    Primitive Types

    Classes, Structures, and Enumerations

    Interfaces

    Delegates

    Members

    A Note on Generics

    The Role of the Common Language Specification

Executing Managed Code

    The Assembly Manifest

    IL Code

    Metadata

    Mixing Languages

Diving into the Common Language Runtime

    Bootstrapping the Runtime

    Assembly Loading

    Application Domains

    JIT Compilation

    Native Image Generation

    Automatic Memory Management

    Exception Handling

    Code Access Security

    Interoperability Facilities

    The Base Class Library

Summary

Chapter 2 Introducing the C# Programming Language

The Evolution of C#

    C# 1.0: Managed Code Development, Take One

    C# 2.0: Enriching the Core Language Features

    C# 3.0: Bridging the Gap Between Objects and Data

    C# 4.0: Reaching Out to Dynamic Languages

A Sneak Peek at the Future

    Multiparadigm

    Language-Shaping Forces

    Compiler as a Service

    Taming the Concurrency Beast

Summary

Chapter 3 Getting Started with .NET Development Using C#

Installing the .NET Framework

    The .NET Framework Version Landscape

  

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