A Programmer's Introduction to C#, 2/e

A Programmer’s Introduction to C#, Second Edition is designed as a comprehensive reference to the C# language and is designed to help experienced programmers get up-to-speed on C#. Author Eric Gunnerson is a developer on Microsoft’s C# design team and has logged many hours writing and testing C# code. As such, he is uniquely poised to teach developers the effective use of this new language. Gunnerson also explains to readers how C# fits into Microsoft’s new .NET framework.

Gunnerson provides the foundation to let experienced programmers begin to develop in C#. Among the core topics covered are everything from C# basic statements and flow of execution, to classes, structs, interfaces, expressions, arrays, enums, delegates and events, exception handling, interoperability, and more! The final section of the book provides a history of C#, and a language comparison to other widely used programming languages. New features in this edition include coverage of how to develop a GUI application using Windows Forms and in-depth information on advanced topics such as threading and execution-time code generation.

Contents

• Foreward
• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• About This Book
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Object-Oriented Basics
• Chapter 2: The .Net Runtime Environment
• Chapter 3: C# QuickStart and Developing in C#
• Chapter 4: Exception Handling
• Chapter 5: Classes 101
• Chapter 6: Base Classes and Inheritance
• Chapter 7: Member Accessibility and Overloading
• Chapter 8: Other Class Details
• Chapter 9: Structs (Value Types)
• Chapter 10: Interfaces
• Chapter 11: Versioning
• Chapter 12: Statements and Flow of Execution
• Chapter 13: Variable Scoping and Definite Assignment
• Chapter 14: Operators and Expressions
• Chapter 15: Conversions
• Chapter 16: Arrays
• Chapter 17: Strings
• Chapter 18: Properties
• Chapter 19: Indexers and Enumerators
• Chapter 20: Enumerations
• Chapter 21: Attributes
• Chapter 22: Delegates
• Chapter 23: Events
• Chapter 24: User-defined Conversions
• Chapter 25: Operator Overloading
• Chapter 26: Other Language Details
• Chapter 27: Making Friends with the .Net Frameworks
• Chapter 28: System.Array and the Collection Classes
• Chapter 29: Threading and Asynchronous Operations
• Chapter 30: Execution-Time Code Generation
• Chapter 31: Interop
• Chapter 32: .NET Frameworks Overview
• Chapter 33: Windows Forms
• Chapter 34: DiskDiff: More Sophistications
• Chapter 35: DiskDiff: Making It Useful
• Chapter 36: Deeper into C#
• Chapter 37: Defensive Programming
• Chapter 38: The Command Line Compiler
• Chapter 39: C# Compared to Other Languages
• Chapter 40: C# Resources and Futures