C# in Depth, Third Edition

Chapter 2. Core foundations: building on C# 1

This chapter covers

• Delegates
• Type system characteristics
• Value/reference types

This isn’t a refresher on the whole of C# 1. Let’s get that out of the way immediately. I couldn’t do justice to any topic in C# if I had to cover the whole of the first version in a single chapter. I’ve written this book assuming that you’re at least reasonably competent in C# 1. What counts as “reasonably competent” is, of course, somewhat subjective, but I’ll assume you’d at least be happy to walk into an interview for a junior C# developer role and answer technical questions appropriate to that job. You may well have more experience, but that’s the level of knowledge I’m assuming.

In this chapter, we’ll focus ...