October 2020
Intermediate to advanced
1088 pages
31h 19m
English
Overview
The Comprehensive, Expert Guide to C# 8.0 for Programmers at All Levels
Welcome to one of the most venerable and trusted franchises you could dream of in the world of C# booksand probably far beyond! . . . Mark is super smart, insists on understanding everything to the core, and has phenomenal insight into how things affect real developers. . . . He goes right to the essence and communicates with great integrityno sugarcoatingand has a keen eye for practical value and real-world problems.
From the Foreword by Mads Torgersen, C# Lead Designer, Microsoft
Essential C# 8.0 is a well-organized, no-fluff guide to C# 8.0 for programmers at all levels of experience. This edition retains all the valuable content of prior editions and adds discussions of null reference types, indices and ranges, enhanced pattern matching, asynchronous stream, and more.
World-class C# expert Mark Michaelis presents a comprehensive tutorial and reference for the entire language, providing an accelerated learning opportunity to achieve expert C# programming skills. He includes key C# 8.0 enhancements, succinct examples to illustrate central constructs, and updated coding guidelines for minimizing bugs and writing code thats easier to evolve. To help you quickly find what you need, there are version-specific indexes of C# 6.0, 7.0, and 8.0 topics and visual icons that identify when each language innovation was introduced.
Use structured programming constructs to write functioning code immediately
Learn both the complexities and solutions to nullable reference types
Thoroughly master C# object constructs, including classes, inheritance, and interfaces
Reduce code redundancy with generics, delegates, lambda expressions, and events
Take full advantage of collections, including the new standard query operator collection API
Make the most of reflection, attributes, and the declarative programming paradigm
Improve multithreading with the task-based async pattern and C# 8.0 asynchronous streams
Enhance performance through the parallel processing of data and multithreading tasks
Program complex types with enhanced pattern matching syntax
Interoperate with unmanaged code written in other languages, including C-based APIs
Explore the relationship between C# programs and the underlying CLI runtime
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