Programming C# 3. 0

by Liberty, Jesse

• ISBN13: 9780596527433
• ISBN10: 0596527438
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-12-20
• Publisher: Oreilly & Associates Inc

Summary

This thoroughly updated tutorial for beginning to intermediate programmers covers the latest release of Microsoft's popular C# language (C# 3.0) and the new .NET 3.5 platform for developing Windows and web applications. This best-selling book - now in its fifth edition - not only covers the essentials of the C# and the .NET Framework Class Libraries, but also explains how to use these tools to create applications for Windows, as well as for the Web.

Author Biography

Jesse Liberty, "Silverlight Geek", is a Senior Program Manager for Microsoft.

Even before joining Microsoft, Jesse was well known in the industry in part because of his many bestselling books, including O'Reilly Media's Programming .NET 3.5, Programming C# , Learning ASP.NET with AJAX and the soon to be published Programming Silverlight 4. Jesse has over two decades experience writing software, consulting and training, with stints as at AT&T as a Distinguished Software Engineer and at Citibank as a Vice President in the Information Division.

Donald Xie is a business analyst with Chevron. He loves programming and has worked as an independent solution consultant for many organizations. He is co-author of several books on general and .NET programming including Pro Visual Studio.NET and Fast Track ADO.NET.

Table of Contents

Preface C# and .NET

About This Book

What You Need to Use This Book

How This Book Is Organized

Who This Book Is For

Conventions Used in This Book

Support

We'd Like to Hear from You

Using Code Examples

Safari#

AE; Books Online

Acknowledgments

Dedications

The C# Language

C# 3.0 and .NET 3.5

The Evolution of C#

The C# Language

The .NET Platform

Getting Started: "Hello World"

Classes, Objects, and Types

Developing "Hello World"

Using the Visual Studio 2008 Debugger

C# Language Fundamentals

Types

Variables and Constants

Whitespace

Statements

Operators

Preprocessor Directives

Classes and Objects

Defining Classes

Creating Objects

Using Static Members

Destroying Objects

Passing Parameters

Overloading Methods and Constructors

Encapsulating Data with Properties

readonly Fields

Inheritance and Polymorphism

Specialization and Generalization

Inheritance

Polymorphism

Abstract Classes

The Root of All Types: Object

Nesting Classes

Operator Overloading

Using the operator Keyword

Supporting Other .NET Languages

Creating Useful Operators

Logical Pairs

The Equality Operator

Conversion Operators

Putting Operators to Work

Structs

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