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Programming C#
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Programming C#

by Jesse Liberty
July 2001
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
688 pages
16h 14m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Preface

Every 10 years or so a new approach to programming hits like a tsunami. In the early 1980s, the new technologies were Unix, which could be run on a desktop, and a powerful new language called C, developed by AT&T. The early 90’s brought Windows and C++. Each of these developments represented a sea change in the way you approached programming. .NET and C# are the next wave, and this book is intended to help you ride it.

Microsoft has `bet the company’ on .NET. When a company of their size and influence spends billions of dollars and reorganizes its entire corporate structure to support a new platform, it is reasonable for programmers to take notice. It turns out that .NET represents a major change in the way you’ll think about programming. It is, in short, a new development platform designed to facilitate object-oriented Internet development. The programming language of choice for this object-oriented Internet-centric platform is C# which builds on the lessons learned from C (high performance), C++ (object-oriented structure), Java (security), and Visual Basic (rapid development) to create a new language ideally suited for developing component-based n-tier distributed web applications.

About This Book

This book is a tutorial, both on C# and on writing .NET applications with C#. Part I focuses on the details of the language. If you are already proficient in a programming language, you may be able to skim this section, but be sure to read through Chapter 1, which provides an ...

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