Presenting C#

• Written by Christoph Wille, a Microsoft insider with early access to the C# language
  
• This concise, code-intensive guide enables developers to learn C# quickly
  
• Complete coverage of C# from the ground up with rich coding examples
  

Contents

Introduction

Who Should Read This Book?

How This Book Is Organized

What You Will Need to Use This Book

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Chapter 1: Introduction to C#

Why Another Programming Language?

Summary

Chapter 2: The Underpinnings-- The NGWS Runtime

The NGWS Runtime

The Virtual Object System

Summary

Chapter 3: Your First C# Application

Choosing an Editor

The Hello World Code

Compiling the Application

Input and Output

Adding Comments

Summary

Chapter 4: C# Types

Value Types

Reference Types

Boxing and Unboxing

Summary

Chapter 5: Classes

Constructors and Destructors

Methods

Class Properties

Indexers

Events

Applying Modifiers

Summary

Chapter 6: Control Statements

Selection Statements

Iteration Statements

Summary

Chapter 7: Exception Handling

Checked and Unchecked Statements

Exception-Handling Statements

Throwing Exceptions

Do's and Donts of Exception Handling

Summary

Chapter 8: Writing Components in C#

Your First Component

Working with Namespaces

Summary

Chapter 9: Configuration and Deployment

Conditional Compilation

Documentation Comments in XML

Versioning Your Code

Summary

Chapter 10: Interoperating with Unmanaged Code

COM Interoperability

Platform Invocation Services

Unsafe Code

Summary

Chapter 11: Debugging C# Code

Debugging Tasks

The Intermediate Language Disassembler

Summary

Chapter 12: Security

Code-Access Security

Role-Based Security

Summary