Copyright
Brief Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Praise for the Second Edition
Praise for the First Edition
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
About this Book
About the Author
About the Cover Illustration
1. Preparing for the journey
Chapter 1. The changing face of C# development
1.1. Starting with a simple data type
1.1.1. The Product type in C# 1
1.1.2. Strongly typed collections in C# 2
1.1.3. Automatically implemented properties in C# 3
1.1.4. Named arguments in C# 4
1.2. Sorting and filtering
1.2.1. Sorting products by name
1.2.2. Querying collections
1.3. Handling an absence of data
1.3.1. Representing an unknown price
1.3.2. Optional parameters and default values
1.4. Introducing LINQ
1.4.1. Query expressions and in-process queries
1.4.2. Querying XML
1.4.3. LINQ to SQL
1.5. COM and dynamic typing
1.5.1. Simplifying COM interoperability
1.5.2. Interoperating with a dynamic language
1.6. Writing asynchronous code without the heartache
1.7. Dissecting the .NET platform
1.7.1. C#, the language
1.7.2. Runtime
1.7.3. Framework libraries
1.8. Making your code super awesome
1.8.1. Presenting full programs as snippets
1.8.2. Didactic code isn���t production code
1.8.3. Your new best friend: the language specification
1.9. Summary
Chapter 2. Core foundations: building on C# 1