C# in Depth

Chapter 2. Core foundations: building on C# 1

This chapter covers

• Delegates

• Type system characteristics

• Value/reference types

This is not 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 all my readers are at least reasonably competent in C# 1. What counts as “reasonably competent” is, of course, a somewhat subjective matter, but I’ll assume you would at least be happy to walk into an interview for a junior C# developer role and answer technical questions appropriate to that job. My expectation is that many readers will have more experience, but that’s the level of knowledge ...