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C# in a Nutshell, Second Edition
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C# in a Nutshell, Second Edition

by Peter Drayton, Ben Albahari, Ted Neward
August 2003
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
928 pages
32h 1m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Contents of This Book

Part I, Part II, and Part III of this book document the C# language, the .NET CLR, and relevant tools that ship with the .NET Framework downloadable SDK. Part I, Programming with C#, introduces the C# language and the .NET Framework:

Chapter 1

Chapter 1 provides an overview of the C# language and the .NET Framework, with special attention to their key features and benefits.

Chapter 2

This chapter introduces the elements of the C# language, including data types and basic constructs such as expressions and statements. Special notation is used throughout the chapter to summarize C# syntax rules for later reference.

Chapter 3

Chapter 3 explains how to define and instantiate new types in C#. In C#, all classes are components that embody both executable code and metadata used by the CLR at runtime.

Chapter 4

This chapter explains features of the C# language used to handle events and exceptions, callbacks, custom attributes and more.

Part II contains:

Chapter 5

Chapter 5 is an overview of the core .NET Framework APIs covered in this book. The APIs themselves are covered in Part IV. Here you will find a summary of the support you can expect in each functional area of the FCL, along with lists of the namespaces in which the relevant types are found.

Chapter 6,

This chapter describes key FCL types available for string manipulation and shows how to program them using C#. The FCL offers a wide range of advanced string handling features. FCL types for regular expression ...

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