Professional C# 4.0 and .NET 4

by Christian Nagel; Bill Evjen (Reuters, St. Louis, MO); Jay Glynn; Karli Watson; Morgan Skinner

• ISBN13: 9780470632536
• ISBN10: 0470632534
• Copyright: 2010-03-01
• Publisher: Wrox

Summary

This book starts by reviewing the overall architecture of .NET in order to give you the background you need to be able to write managed code. After that, the book is divided into a number of sections that cover both the C# language and its application in a variety of areas.Part I: The C# Language: This section gives a good grounding in the C# language itself. This section doesn't presume knowledge of any particular language, although it does assume you are an experienced programmer. You start by looking at C's basic syntax and data types, and then explore the object-oriented features of C# before moving on to look at more advanced C# programming topics. Objects, types, inheritance, generics, arrays, tuples, operators, casts, delegates, lambdas, events, strings, regular expressions, collections, Language Integrated, Query (LINQ), Dynamic Language Extensions, memory management, pointers, reflection, errors, and exception are all covered in part 1.Part II: Visual Studio: This section looks at the main IDE utilized by C# developers worldwide: Visual Studio 2010. The two chapters in this section look at the best way to use the tool to build applications based on the .NET Framework 4. In addition, this section also focuses on the deployment of your projects.Part III: Foundation: In this section, you look at the principles of programming in the .NET environment. In particular, you look at assemblies, instrumentation, security, threading, tasks, synchronization, localization, System.Transactions, networking, interop, XAML, Managed Extensibility Framework, Manipulating Files and the Registry, transactions, how to build Windows services, and how to generate your own libraries as assemblies, among other topics.Part IV: Data: Here, you look at accessing databases with ADO.NET, ADO.NET Entity Framework, data services. This part also extensively covers support in .NET for XML and on the Windows operating system side, and the .NET features of SQL Server 2008.Part V: Presentation: This section shows how to build applications based upon the Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight, and covers writing components that will run on web sites, serving up web pages. It also has coverage on building classic Windows applications, which are called Windows Forms in .NET. Windows Forms are the thick-client version of applications, and using .NET to build these types of applications is a quick and easy way of accomplishing this task. Finally, it includes coverage of the tremendous number of features that ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, and ASP.Net Dynamic Data provide.Part VI: Communication: This section is all about communication. It covers services for platform-independent communication using the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). With Message Queuing, asynchronous disconnected communication is shown. This section looks at utilizing the Windows Workflow Foundation 4, as well as peer to peer networking, and creating syndication feeds.The book closes with an appendix covering Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 development.Online Chapters: Even with such a large book, we can't fit in everything we'd like to tell you about C# and using this language with other .NET technologies, so we've made ten additional chapters available online at wrox.com. These chapters include information on a variety of topics: GDI+, which is a technology that is used for building applications that include advanced graphics; .Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO); NET Remoting for communication between .NET clients and servers; Enterprise Services for the services in the background; web services with ASP.NET, LINQ to SQL, Windows Workflow Foundation 3.0, and the Managed Add-In Framework (MAF). It also includes examples showing .NET 4 in others supported languages including Visual Basic, C++/CLI, and F#.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The C# Language

.NET Architecture

Core C#

Objects and Types

Inheritance

Generics

Arrays and Tuples

Operators and Casts

Delegates, Lambdas, and Events

Strings and Regular Expressions

Collections

Language Integrated Query

Dynamic Language Extensions

Memory Management and Pointers

Refl ection

Errors and Exceptions

Visual Studio

Visual Studio 2010

Deployment

Foundation

Assemblies

Instrumentation

Threads, Tasks, and Synchronization

Security

Localization

System.Transactions

Networking

Windows Services

Interop

Core XAML

Managed Extensibility Framework

Manipulating Files and the Registry

Data

Core ADO.NET

ADO.NET Entity Framework

Data Services

Manipulating XML

.NET Programming with SQL Server

Presentation

Core WPF

Business Applications with WPF

Creating Documents with WPF

Silverlight

Windows Forms

Core ASP.NET

ASP.NET Features

ASP.NET Dynamic Data and MVC

Communication

Windows Communication Foundation

Windows Workfl ow Foundation 4

Peer-to-Peer Networking

Message Queuing

Syndication

Appendix: Guidelines for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2

Index

Online Chapters

Graphics with GDI+

Visual Studio Tools for Office

Managed Add-In Framework

Enterprise Services

Directory Services

C#, Visual Basic, C++/CLI, and F#

.NET Remoting

Web Services with ASP.NET

LINQ to SQL

Windows Workfl ow Foundation 3.0

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