C-Sharp in Depth

C♯ In Depth Is A Completely New Book Designed To Propel Existing C♯ Developers To A Higher Level Of Programming Skill. One Simple Principle Drives This Book: Explore A Few Things Deeply Rather Than Offer A Shallow View Of The Whole C♯ Landscape. If You Often Find Yourself Wanting Just A Little More At The End Of A Typical Chapter, This Is The Book For You. Expert Author Jon Skeet Dives Into The C♯ Language, Plumbing New C♯ 2 And 3 Features And Probing The Core C♯ Language Concepts That Drive Them. This Unique Book Puts The New Features Into Context Of How C♯ Has Evolved Without A Lengthy Rehearsal Of The Full C♯ Language. This Is A Book About C#2 And C#3 With Only Passing References To C#1. Preparing The Journey -- The Changing Face Of C♯ Development -- Core Foundations : Building On C♯ 1 -- Solving The Issues Of C♯ 1 -- Parameterized Typing With Generics -- Saying Nothing With Nullable Types -- Fast-tracked Delegates -- Implementing Iterators The Easy Way -- Concluding C♯ 2 : The Final Features -- Revolutionizing How We Code -- Cutting Fluff With A Smart Compiler -- Lambda Expressions And Expression Trees -- Extension Methods -- Query Expressions And Linq To Objects -- Linq Beyond Collections -- Elegant Code In The New Era. Jon Skeet ; [foreward By Eric Lippert]. Includes Index. Covers C# 2 And C# 3--cover. This is a book about C# from version 2 onwards -- it's as simple as that. I barely cover C# 1, and only cover the .NET Framework libraries and Common Language Runtime (CLR) when they're related to the language. This is a deliberate decision, and the result is quite a different book from most of the C# and .NET books I've seen. By assuming a reasonable amount of knowledge of C# 1, I avoid spending hundreds of pages covering material that I think most people already understand. This gives me much more room to expand on the details of C# 2, 3, and 4, which is what I hope you're reading the book for. I believe that many developers would be less frustrated with their work if they had a deeper connection with the language they're writing in. I know it sounds geeky in the extreme to talk about having a "relationship" with a programming language, but that's the best way I can describe it. This book is my attempt to help you achieve that sort of understanding, or deepen it further. It won't be enough on its own -- it should be a companion to your coding, guiding you and suggesting some interesting avenues to explore, as well as explaining why your code behaves the way it does. - Publisher. A guide to the key topics of C# covers such topics as lambda expressions, LINQ, generics, nullable types, iterators, and extension methods.