Chapter 1
[1] Refer to the movie The Princess Bride if you’re confused about the Inigo Montoya references.
[2] When creating C#, the language creators sat down with the specifications for C/C++, literally crossing out the features they didn’t like and creating a list of the ones they did like. The group also included designers with strong backgrounds in other languages.
[3] Compilation using the Mono compiler, an open source compiler sponsored by Novell, is virtually identical, except that the compiler name is mcs.exe rather than csc.exe. Although I would very much like to have placed instructions for each platform here, doing so detracts from the topic of introducing C#. See Appendix A for details on Mono.
[4] For example, early in the design ...
Get Essential C# 3.0: For .NET Framework 3.5 now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
