August 2022
Intermediate to advanced
833 pages
25h 30m
English
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Chapter 1. Introducing C#
The C# programming language (pronounced “see sharp”) is used for many kinds of applications, including websites, cloud-based systems, IoT devices, machine learning, desktop applications, embedded controllers, mobile apps, games, and command-line utilities. C#, along with the supporting runtime, libraries, and tools known collectively as .NET, has been center stage for Windows developers for over 20 years. Today, .NET is cross-platform and open source, enabling applications and services written in C# to run on operating systems including Android, iOS, macOS, and Linux, as well as on Windows.
The release of C# 10.0 and its corresponding runtime, .NET 6.0, marks an important milestone: C#’s journey to becoming a fully cross-platform, open source language is now complete. Although open source implementations have existed for most of C#’s history, a sea change began in 2016 when Microsoft released .NET Core 1.0, the first platform fully supported by Microsoft for running C# on Linux and macOS as well as Windows. Library and tool support for .NET Core was initially patchy, so Microsoft continued to ship new versions of its older runtime, the closed-source, Windows-only .NET Framework, but six years on, that old runtime is effectively being retired,1 now that the cross-platform version has comprehensively overtaken it. .NET 5.0 dropped the “Core” from its name to signify that it is now the main event, but it is with .NET 6.0 that the cross-platform version has ...
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