Author(s) : Bill Wagner Publisher : Addison Date       : 2008 Pages     : 336 Format    : PDF ISBN-10  : 0321485890 ISBN-13  : 978-0321485892

In More Effective C#, Microsoft C# MVP and Regional Director Bill Wagner introduces fifty brand-new ways to write more efficient and more robust software. This all-new book follows the same format as Wagner’s best-selling Effective C# (Addison-Wesley, 2005), providing clear, practical explanations, expert tips, and plenty of realistic code examples.

Wagner shows how to make the most of powerful innovations built into Microsoft’s new C# 3.0 and .NET Framework 3.5, as well as advanced C# language capabilities not covered in his previous book. Drawing on his unsurpassed C# experience, the author reveals new best practices for working with LINQ, generics, metaprogramming, and many other features. He also uncovers practices that compromise performance or reliability and shows exactly how to avoid them.

More Effective C# shows how to
* Use generics to express your design intent more effectively
* Master advanced generics techniques, such as constraints, method constraints, and generic specialization
* Use the multithreaded techniques you’ll need to work with the .NET framework every day
* Express modern design idioms using the rich palette of C# language features
* Successfully mix object oriented and functional programming constructs
* Create composable interfaces and avoid confusion in public interfaces
* Use extension methods to separate contracts from implementation
* Program successfully with C# closures and anonymous types
* Write more effective LINQ queries
* Make the most of LINQ Lazy Evaluation Queries and Lambda Expressions
* Distinguish and convert between delegates and expression trees
* Efficiently utilize nullable types and partial classes
* Use implicit properties for mutable, nonserializable data

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Author(s) : Christian Gross Publisher : Apress Date       : 2008 Pages     : 550 Format    : PDF ISBN-10  : 1430210338 ISBN-13  : 978-1430210337

This book is for anyone who wants to write good C# code—even if you have never programmed before. Writing good code can be a challenge—there are so many options, especially in a .NET language like C#. If you want to really get the best from a programming language, you need to know which features work best in which situations and understand their strengths and weaknesses. It is this understanding that makes the difference between coding and coding well.

Beginning C# 2008: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition has been written to teach you how to use the C# programming language to solve problems. From the earliest chapters, and from the first introductory concepts, you’ll be looking at real–world programming challenges and learning how C# can be used to overcome them. As you progress through the book, the problems become more involved and interesting, while the solutions become correspondingly more complex and powerful as C# features interact to achieve the results that you want.

This second edition has been revised and improved to now include the latest SQL Server 2008 release and explain how you can integrate SQL Server 2008 with your C# applications.

By the time you’ve finished reading this book and worked through the sample exercises, you’ll be a confident and very competent C# programmer. You will still have many explorations of the .NET Framework API to look forward to, but you will have a firm foundation to build from, and you will know exactly where to go to find the things that you need to progress confidently in your projects.

What you’ll learn
* Everything to get you started with C# 2008 from scratch—from installing the tools to writing your first applications.
* The core concepts of .NET 3.5 programming: from decision trees to data structures, from exceptions to lambda expressions, and from objects to components.
* Learn what LINQ is, why functional programming can be important, how generics make your life easier, and much, much, more!

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