Foreword

Welcome to one of the greatest collaborations you could dream of in the world of C# books—and probably far beyond! Mark Michaelis’ Essential C# series is already a classic, and teaming up with famous C# blogger Eric Lippert on the new edition is another masterstroke!

You may think of Eric as writing blogs and Mark as writing books, but that is not how I first got to know them.

In 2005 when LINQ (Language Integrated Query) was disclosed, I had only just joined Microsoft, and I got to tag along to the PDC conference for the big reveal. Despite my almost total lack of contribution to the technology, I thoroughly enjoyed the hype. The talks were overflowing, the printed leaflets were flying like hotcakes: It was a big day for C# and .NET, ...

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