CLR via C#, 2/e

Description

Get expert guidance to exploit CLR capabilities and the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0.

Dig deep and master the intricacies of the common language runtime (CLR) and the .NET Framework. Written by a highly regarded programming expert and consultant to the Microsoft .NET team, this guide is ideal for developers building any kind of application—including Microsoft ASP.NET, Windows Forms, Microsoft SQL Server, Web services, and console applications. You’ll get hands-on instruction and extensive code C# code samples to help you tackle the tough topics and develop high-performance applications.

Discover how to:
• Build, deploy, administer, and version applications, components, and shared assemblies
• Design types using constants, fields, constructors, methods, properties, and events
• Work effectively with the CLR’s special types including enumerators, arrays, and strings
• Declare, create, and use delegates to expose callback functions
• Define and employ re-usable algorithms with interfaces and generics
• Define, use, and detect custom attributes
• Use exception handling to build robust, reliable, and security-enhanced components
• Manage memory automatically with the garbage collector and work with native resources
• Apply CLR Hosting, AppDomains, assembly loading, and reflection to build dynamically extensible applications

PLUS—Get code samples on the Web