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Practical Guidelines and Best Practices for Microsoft Visual Basic and Microsoft Visual C# Developers

by Francesco Balena, Giuseppe Dimauro
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Overview

Get the real-world coding guidelines, expert tips, and rock-solid guidance you need to take your development expertise to the next level. Drawing on their extensive programming and consulting experience, respected developers Francesco Balena and Giuseppe Dimauro share more than 700 programming best practices for Visual Basic and Visual C#. For each rule the authors explain the purpose, illuminate their whys and why-nots, highlight exceptions and alternatives, and provide real-world code samples.

Use the practical, reliable techniques in this book to:

  • Take full advantage of the Microsoft .NET Framework—and write reusable, robust, and security-enhanced code
  • Build software solutions that are both efficient and scalable
  • Implement rational and easy-to-use class libraries and object hierarchies
  • Adopt coherent coding styles and techniques to increase team productivity
  • Extend your programming expertise, problem-solving skills, and creativity!

Find best practices for working with:

  • assemblies
  • resources and localization
  • types and structures
  • fields
  • properties
  • methods *constructors
  • events
  • interfaces
  • exception handling
  • custom attributes
  • numbers and dates
  • strings
  • array and collection types
  • memory usage and object finalization
  • Windows Forms applications
  • Microsoft ADO.NET
  • Microsoft ASP.NET Web Forms and Web services applications
  • threading and synchronization
  • PInvoke and COM Interop
  • serviced components
  • remoting
  • security considerations
  • and more

Get code samples for Visual Basic and C# on the Web: For information on code samples and system requirements, please see Appendix C.

Synopsis

Get the real-world coding guidelines, expert tips, and rock-solid guidance you need to take your development expertise to the next level. Drawing on their extensive programming and consulting experience, respected developers Francesco Balena and Giuseppe Dimauro share more than 700 programming best practices for Visual Basic and Visual C#. For each rule the authors explain the purpose, illuminate their whys and why-nots, highlight exceptions and alternatives, and provide real-world code samples.

Use the practical, reliable techniques in this book to:

  • Take full advantage of the Microsoft .NET Framework—and write reusable, robust, and security-enhanced code
  • Build software solutions that are both efficient and scalable
  • Implement rational and easy-to-use class libraries and object hierarchies
  • Adopt coherent coding styles and techniques to increase team productivity
  • Extend your programming expertise, problem-solving skills, and creativity!

Find best practices for working with:

  • assemblies
  • resources and localization
  • types and structures
  • fields
  • properties
  • methods *constructors
  • events
  • interfaces
  • exception handling
  • custom attributes
  • numbers and dates
  • strings
  • array and collection types
  • memory usage and object finalization
  • Windows Forms applications
  • Microsoft ADO.NET
  • Microsoft ASP.NET Web Forms and Web services applications
  • threading and synchronization
  • PInvoke and COM Interop
  • serviced components
  • remoting
  • security considerations
  • and more

Get code samples for Visual Basic and C# on the Web: For information on code samples and system requirements, please see Appendix C.

About the Author, Francesco Balena

Francesco Balena is a well-known and highly regarded developer and author. He has written numerous Microsoft Press® books, including the widely acclaimed Programming Microsoft Visual Basic® titles, and edits a popular Web site on .NET programming. Francesco is a cofounder of Code Architects srl, an Italian software company that specializes in using Microsoft technologies to create enterprise-level solutions and programming tools. In addition, he is a regional director for MSDN® Italy, and a frequent speaker at developer conferences.

Giuseppe Dimauro is an MSDN Regional Director for Italy and a regular speaker at Italian conferences such as Windows Professional Conferences, DevDays, and MSDN events. He teaches and consults for Microsoft Italy on technologies such as COM+, Microsoft SQL Server™, and Microsoft Exchange Server.

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.NET’s been around long enough for hundreds of reliable “best practices” to develop. Now two of the world’s leading VB and C# programmers have created an encyclopedia of those best practices. It’s a rare program that won’t benefit from one of their more than 700 techniques for improving reliability, efficiency, scalability, reusability, even security.

Francesco Balena (Wintellect’s resident VB.NET expert and founder of vb2themax.com) and Giuseppe Dimauro address everything from memory usage to threads, exception handling to assemblies. You’ll find solutions no matter what you’re building: Windows applications with Windows Forms, web applications, web services, or ADO.NET-enabled database applications -- even integrating older code with PInvoke and COM Interop. Of course, everything’s illuminated with practical examples. Get the book, download the code, and you’re in business. Bill Camarda, from the April 2005 Read Only

Book Details

Published
February 1, 2005
Publisher
Microsoft Press
Pages
608
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780735621725

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