A Programmer’s Guide to C# 5.0 is a book for software developers who want to truly understand C#. Whether you’ve worked with C# before or with another general-purpose programming language, each fast-paced, focused chapter will take you straight to the heart of a feature of C# and show you why it works the way it does.

Written by one-time C# Test Lead, Program Manager, and member of the original C# language design team, this book is an ideal companion to the C# Language Specification, and works both as a tutorial and as a reference guide. Now in its fourth edition, you will find up-to-date coverage of all the latest C# features, including Linq, covariance and contravariance, and async support.

You’ll learn how to:

Use C# features effectively, in the way they were intended
Apply the newest C# features to your coding problems
Streamline your database code using LINQ
Use async support and the task parallel library to improve performance.
Program more efficiently, effectively, and with real insight into this mature and exciting language, with A Programmer’s Guide to C# 5.0.

What you’ll learn

Learn the "why" behind C# features.
Learn how to use C# features effectively, in the way they were designed.
Apply the newest C# features to your coding problems.
Streamline your database code using Linq.
Use Async support to simplify your code.

Who this book is for

A Programmer’s Guide to C# is aimed at software developers who want to improve their proficiency at using the C# language. No prior knowledge of .NET is required, but the book does assume experience with a general-purpose programming language.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1:The .NET Runtime Environment

Chapter 2: C# Quick Start and C# Development

Chapter 3: Classes 101

Chapter 4: Base Classes and Inheritance

Chapter 5: Exceptions

Chapter 6: Member Accessibility and Overloading

Chapter 7: Other Class Details

Chapter 8: Structs (Value Types)

Chapter 9: Interfaces

Chapter 10: Versioning and Aliases

Chapter 11: Statements and Flow of Execution

Chapter 12: Variable Scoping and Definite Assignment

Chapter 13: Operators and Expressions

Chapter 14: Conversions

Chapter 15: Arrays

Chapter 16: Properties

Chapter 17: Generics

Chapter 18: Indexers, Enumerators, and Iterators

Chapter 19: Strings

Chapter 20: Enumerations

Chapter 21: Attributes

Chapter 22: Delegates and Anonymous Methods

Chapter 23: Events

Chapter 24: Dynamic types

Chapter 25: User-Defined Conversions

Chapter 26: Operator Overloading

Chapter 27: Nullable Types

Chapter 28: Linq

Chapter 29: Linq to XML

Chapter 30: Linq to SQL

Chapter 31: Other Language Details

Chapter 32: Making Friends with the .NET Framework

Chapter 33: System.Array and the Collection Classes

Chapter 34: Threading

Chapter 35: Asynchronous and Parallel Programming

Chapter 36: Execution-Time Code Generation

Chapter 37: Interop

Chapter 38: .NET Framework Overview

Chapter 39: Deeper into C#

Chapter 40: Logging and Debugging Techniques

Chapter 41: IDEs and Utilities

About the Author

Eric Gunnerson is a software developer working at Microsoft. He is a past C# Test Lead, C# Program Manager, and member of the C# Language Design Team. He’s been a developer for longer than he cares to admit, and has worked on everything from microcontrollers to minicomputers. In his spare time, he enjoys writing about himself in the third person.

Nick Wienholt is an independent Windows and .NET consultant based in Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Maximizing .NET Performance and co-author of A Programmers Guide to C# (formerly A Programmers Introduction to C#) from Apress. He has written articles numbering in the hundreds for Australian Developer Journal, ZDNet, CodeGuru, Pinnacle Publishing, Developer.com and MSDN Magazine (the Australia and New Zealand Edition). When not cranking out the semi-colons, he can be found pounding the trails in preparation for the next ultra running event, and is keen to stretch his 100km finishes out to the 100 mile distance. He was awarded MVP distinction from Microsoft from 2002 through 2011 in the .NET, C# and C++ categories.

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