C# Developer's Headstart

by Michaelis, Mark; Spokas, Philip

• ISBN13: 9780072191165
• ISBN10: 0072191163
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media

Summary

Learn to quickly build powerful Internet applications with C#--Microsoft’s newest innovative programming language--using this up-to-date e-book. You’ll discover valuable tips for integrating C# into legacy code, learn migration strategies, and get details on the transition from COM to .NET--and much more. Written by expert authors and packed with real-world development solutions, this ground-breaking guide to C# is the only book you need.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Introduction to C#	p. 1
The Component-based Model of Software Design	p. 2
The .NET Approach to Component-based Software Development	p. 5
What Is the .NET Framework	p. 6
.NET's Common Language Runtime	p. 6
.NET's Framework Class Libraries	p. 9
.NET Framework Tools and Utilities	p. 10
Why C#	p. 11
What Is C#	p. 13
C# Language Review	p. 15
A Simple C# Program	p. 16
A Few More Comments on Main()	p. 17
Adding a Class to the Simple C# Program	p. 17
C# Types and Type Management	p. 18
Value Types	p. 19
Struct Type	p. 20
Enumerations	p. 22
Reference Types	p. 23
Type Comparisons	p. 25
Boxing and Unboxing	p. 25
Type Conversions	p. 26
Arrays	p. 27
Object-oriented Component Development in C#	p. 28
Object-oriented Features of C#	p. 29
Class Constructors and Destructors	p. 40
Methods	p. 42
Fields	p. 46
Properties	p. 46
Operator Overloading	p. 48
Delegates	p. 50
Events	p. 53
Namespaces in C#	p. 57
Declaring Namespaces	p. 58
Exceptions	p. 59
Attributes	p. 61
Indexers	p. 62
Writing Unsafe Code	p. 65
Documenting Code Using XML	p. 66
C# Coding Style	p. 68
.NET, the Operating Environment for C#	p. 69
Microsoft IL	p. 70
How the CLR Gets Loaded	p. 72
.NET Building Blocks	p. 76
Modules	p. 76
Assemblies	p. 76
Application Domains	p. 77
Building Modules and Assemblies	p. 78
Robust Version Control	p. 79
Built-in Metadata	p. 84
Attribute-based Programming	p. 86
Reflection	p. 88
Cross-language Interoperability	p. 93
Common Language Specification	p. 94
Common Type System	p. 95
Object-oriented	p. 96
Delegation and Events	p. 98
Memory Management Through Garbage Collection	p. 98
Garbage Collection Step-by-Step	p. 100
Finalization	p. 102
Strong and Weak References	p. 105
Thread Synchronization	p. 107
C# Language Comparisons	p. 109
Comparing C# to C++	p. 110
Comparing C# to Visual Basic.NET	p. 127
Comparing C# to Java	p. 132
Working Within the Bounds of C#	p. 143
Deterministic Finalization	p. 144
Releasing Resources Explicitly	p. 146
Variable Declaration with the using Keyword	p. 147
Reference Counting	p. 150
.NET Finalization	p. 153
Multiple Inheritance	p. 154
ATLs Multiple Inheritance In-depth	p. 155
Containment	p. 156
Interface Implementation	p. 160
Macros	p. 162
Combining Macros with Interface Inheritance	p. 162
Templates	p. 164
Source Code Security	p. 166
Integrating Legacy Code with C#	p. 167
Integration Approaches	p. 168
Calling COM Objects from C#	p. 169
Using the TLBIMP Utility	p. 171
The Runtime Callable Wrapper	p. 172
Method Return Values and HRESULTs	p. 173
COM Object Lifetime and Deterministic Finalization	p. 174
Inheritance and RCW Objects	p. 174
COM Connection Points	p. 174
Threading of the RCW Components	p. 176
The COM Callable Wrapper, Calling .NET Objects from COM	p. 177
TLBEXP Utility	p. 178
REGASM	p. 184
COM Callable Wrapper	p. 185
Providing .NET Events to COM Clients	p. 187
Threading of .NET Components	p. 193
Additional COM Interoperability Attributes	p. 193
Additional .NET to Type Library Conversions	p. 194
Data Marshalling	p. 196
Strings and the MarshalAsAttribute	p. 196
Marshalling Objects	p. 197
Platform Invocation Services, Calling Unmanaged APIs from C#	p. 199
Interoperability Through Managed C++	p. 201
Migrating Code	p. 210
Summary	p. 211
Index	p. 213
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