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Product Details

• Paperback: 856 pages
• Publisher: O'Reilly; 1 edition (March 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0596001819
• ISBN-13: 978-0596001810

C# in a Nutshell provides everything programmers need to know about the C# language in one concise and accessible volume. Designed as a primary reference for daily use, it also includes all the essential background information to become productive quickly. Not a "how-to" book or a rehash of Microsoft's documentation, this book goes to the source of the C# language and the APIs of the .NET Framework to present the content in a way that professional programmers will value above all other books.

Brief introductions to the language and .NET runtime provide the needed preparation for programming with the C# language, whose keywords and syntax are then detailed in subsequent chapters. Next, C# in a Nutshell presents key namespaces and types of the .NET Framework base class library which provides much of the functionality and power of the language. Using C# examples, the .NET Framework covers each core area, including:

• Strings
• Collections
• XML
• Networking
• Input/Output
• Serialization
• Assemblies
• Reflection
• Custom Attributes
• Memory Management
• Threading
• Integrating with Native DLLs
• Integrating with COM Components
• Diagnostics

Determined to provide even more value, C# in a Nutshell moves into a comprehensive language reference, plus syntax, XML documentation tags, naming and coding conventions, and the various C# development tools--the kind of reference material programmers will use every day.