C# Primer

Author: Stanley B. Lippman
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: Best-selling author Stan Lippman provides essential guidance to readers in his renowned advanced teaching style. This book offers a comprehensive, example-driven explanation of the new object-oriented programming language C#. C# is the foundation of Microsoft's new .NET platform. It inherits many features from Java and C++, and is dedicated to becoming a high-level programming language for building high-performance Windows and Web applications and components (ranging from XML-based Web services to middle-tier business objects and system-level applications). The book mainly includes:
1. Basic introductions, such as namespaces, exception handling, and the unified type system.
2. A detailed discussion and ample examples of classes and interface inheritance, as well as when to use each appropriately.
3. Extensive coverage of the .NET class library, introducing ADO.NET, establishing database connections, regular expressions, threading, socket programming, and XML programming using firehose and DOM parsing models, XSLT, and XPath.
4. A detailed discussion of ASP.NET WebForm Designer, covering page lifecycle and caching, with numerous examples provided.
5. An introduction to the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR).