Beginning C# 2008: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition




Author(s) : Christian Gross
Publisher : Apress
Date       : 2008
Pages     : 550
Format    : PDF
ISBN-10  : 1430210338
ISBN-13  : 978-1430210337





This Book has been written to teach you how to use the C# programming language to solve problems. From the earliest chapters, and from the first introductory concepts, you’ll be looking at real-world programming challenges and learning how C# can be used to overcome them. As you progress through the book, the problems become more involved and interesting, while the solutions become correspondingly more complex and powerful as C# features interact to achieve the results that you want.
This second edition has been revised and improved to now include the latest SQL Server 2008 release and explain how you can integrate SQL Server 2008 with your C# applications.

Beginning C# 2008: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition is for anyone who wants to write good C# code, even if you have never programmed before. Writing good code can be a challenge, there are so many options, especially in a .NET language like C#. If you want to really get the best from a programming language, you need to know which features work best in which situations and understand their strengths and weaknesses. It is this understanding that makes the difference between coding and coding well.

By the time you’ve finished reading and worked through the sample exercises, you’ll be a confident and very competent C# programmer. You will still have many explorations of the .NET Framework API to look forward to, but you will have a firm foundation to build from, and you will know exactly where to go to find the things that you need to progress confidently in your projects.

What you’ll learn

* The core concepts of .NET 3.5 programming: from decision trees to data structures, from exceptions to lambda expressions, and from objects to components.
* Everything to get you started with C# 2008 from scratch—from installing the tools to writing your first applications.
* Learn what LINQ is, why functional programming can be important, how generics make your life easier, and much, much, more!


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More Effective C#: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C#





Author    : Bill Wagner
Publisher : Addison
Date       : 2008
Pages     : 336
Format    : PDF
ISBN-10  : 0321485890
ISBN-13  : 978-0321485892




In this Book, Microsoft C# MVP and Regional Director Bill Wagner introduces fifty brand-new ways to write more efficient and more robust software. This all-new book follows the same format as Wagner’s best-selling Effective C# (Addison-Wesley, 2005), providing clear, practical explanations, expert tips, and plenty of realistic code examples.
The author shows how to make the most of powerful innovations built into Microsoft’s new C# 3.0 and .NET Framework 3.5, as well as advanced C# language capabilities not covered in his previous book. Drawing on his unsurpassed C# experience, he reveals new best practices for working with LINQ, generics, metaprogramming, and many other features. Wagner also uncovers practices that compromise performance or reliability and shows exactly how to avoid them.

More Effective C# shows how to

 
* Use generics to express your design intent more effectively
* Use the multithreaded techniques you’ll need to work with the .NET framework every day
* Master advanced generics techniques, such as constraints, method constraints, and generic specialization
* Express modern design idioms using the rich palette of C# language features
* Create composable interfaces and avoid confusion in public interfaces
* Successfully mix object oriented and functional programming constructs
* Program successfully with C# closures and anonymous types
* Use extension methods to separate contracts from implementation* Write more effective LINQ queries
* Make the most of LINQ Lazy Evaluation Queries and Lambda Expressions
* Efficiently utilize nullable types and partial classes
* Distinguish and convert between delegates and expression trees
* Use implicit properties for mutable, nonserializable data



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Professional ASP.NET 3.5 In C# and VB






Authors   : Bill Evjen, Scott Hanselman, Devin Rader
Publisher : Wrox
Date       : 2008
Pages     : 1704
Format    : PDF
ISBN       : 0470187573



From the Back Cover
 
This Book brings the power of Visual Studio 2008 along with the multitude of language improvements in C# and Visual Basic 2008 as well as powerful new technology called LINQ, together with the ASP.NET 2.0 Framework you already know and love. Combine all this with the release of IIS 7.0 and its new managed code request processing pipeline, and you have a truly revolutionary leap forward in web application development.
ASP.NET 3.5 also brings with it new server controls, like the ListView and theincredibly flexible GridView. It also includes new advancements in AJAX technologycombined with the new JavaScript debugging features in Visual Studio 2008. Greatly expanded from the original best-selling Professional ASP.NET 2.0, this new edition adds hundreds of pages and dozens of code samples so you'll be prepared to put these new technologies into action.

What you will learn from this book


* The concepts underlying the server control and its pivotal role in ASP.NET development
* Ways to debug, package and deploy ASP.NET applications, monitor their health and performance, and handle errors
* How to create templated ASP.NET pages using the master page feature
* How to work with data from enterprise databases including SQL Server
* How to retrieve, update, and delete data quickly and logically using LINQ with side-by-side examples comparing LINQ to existing techniques
* How to localize your web site in multiple languages for a world-wide audience
* What freeware tools you need in Scott Hanselman's ASP.NET Ultimate Developer Tools appendix.
* How to integrate Silverlight interactivity into existing ASP.NET applications
* How to add AJAX capabilities to your ASP.NET applications
* An understanding of how to use and extend the Provider Model for accessing data stores, processes, and more

Who this book is for

 
ASP.NET 3.5 is for programmers and developers who are looking to make the transition to ASP.NET 3.5 with Visual Studio 2008 and either C# 3.0 2008 or Visual Basic 9 2008.
Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.


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From Java to C#







Author    : Glenn Rowe
Publisher : Addison Wesley
Date      : 2004
Pages     : 688
Format   : PDF
ISBN-10 : 0321155726



This book is designed for programmers, experienced with object-oriented concepts, who are transitioning to C# or are interested in learning a new programming language.

This book introduces programmers, already familiar with object-oriented programming, to the C# programming language. It reviews basic object-oriented concepts when C# implementations are discussed.


The book begins by discussing the nuts and bolts of C# before delving into the area of the .Net libraries of code. It then moves on to show how GUI programs are created, and how to populate them with graphics. Advanced topics such as networking, using C# to interface with databases, and using C# with ASP to produce interactive Web pages, are covered at the end of the book.



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