preface
acknowledgments
about this book
about the author
about the cover illustration
Part 1 Using C# and .NET
1 Introducing C# and .NET
1.1 Why work in C#?
Reason 1: C# is economical
Reason 2: C# is maintainable
Reason 3: C# is developer friendly and easy to use
1.2 Why not work in C#?
Operating system development
Real-time operating system embedded development in C#
Numerical computing and C#
1.3 Switching to C#
1.4 What you will learn in this book
1.5 What you will not learn in this book
2 .NET and how it compiles
2.1 What is the .NET Framework?
2.2 What is .NET 5?
