Overview
C# was designed from the ground up for development on Microsoft's .NET framework. As such, it's a high-performance language that's simple, safe, object-oriented, and Internet-centric. Programming C#, 3rd Edition teaches this new language in a way that experienced programmers will appreciate—by grounding its applications firmly in the context of Microsoft's .NET platform and the development of desktop and Internet applications.
Bestselling author Jesse Liberty has updated this latest edition to reflect the release of Visual Studio .NET 2003 and the .NET Framework 1.1. He's also added an entirely new chapter demonstrating various web forms and web services applications, and enlarged and expanded his coverage of events and delegates in response to numerous reader requests. He's even added tips for programmers coming from VB and C++ backgrounds.
The first part of this book introduces C# fundamentals, then goes on to explain:
- Classes and objects
- Inheritance and polymorphism
- Operator overloading
- Structs and interfaces
- Arrays, indexers, and collections
- String objects and regular expressions
- Exceptions and bug handling
- Delegates and events
Part three gets to the heart of the .NET Framework, focusing on attributes and reflection, remoting, threads and synchronization, and streams. Part three also illustrates how to interoperate with COM objects.
In much the way that you can see the features and personality of the parents and grandparents in young children, you can easily see the influence of Java, C++, Visual Basic, and other languages in C#. The level of information in Programming C#, 3rd Edition allows you to become productive quickly with C# and to rely on it as a powerful addition to your family of mastered programming languages.
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewIf you're ready to start learning C#, your timing is perfect. Jesse Liberty -- who, we're convinced, could teach programming to chimpanzees -- has just completed his new introduction to the language. You can't beat Liberty for clarity and simplicity, and you can't beat his Programming C# for thoroughness, either.
Liberty starts with a quick overview of .NET and a quick Hello, World. Then, it's on to a tour of the fundamentals, from the language's strongly typed nature to its use of namespaces, with a focus on its object-oriented features.
Once you're comfortable building console applications, Liberty moves on to Windows applications, web applications, and (briefly) web services. There's a full chapter on accessing databases with ADO.NET, which updates ADO with a new disconnected data architecture that works much like web servers do, avoiding constant connections that waste resources.
C# introduces several powerful new techniques and appropriates many of the best techniques introduced by other contemporary languages. Liberty explains each innovation in detail, including delegates, assemblies, versioning, attributes, reflection, marshaling, and remoting. Whether C# is your first language or your tenth, Programming C# is your express route to real mastery. (Bill Camarda)
Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer with nearly 20 years' experience in helping technology companies deploy and market advanced software, computing, and networking products and services. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2000 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks For Dummies®, Second Edition.