C# Essentials

The book itself is quite thin but covers enough of C# to make it useful for an introduction and to see the potential for the .NET framework. The topics covered:

• Introduction and tutorial for C#
• The Common Language Runtime (CLR)
• A minimal program in C#
• Identifiers and variables
• Inheritance
• Classes and interfaces
• Arrays
• Enums
• Delegates
• Events
• Exception handling
• Attributes
• Unsafe code
• Programming with the built-in .NET Framework classes
• Math and string classes
• Collections
• Support for regular expressions
• I/O and networking classes
• Threading
• .NET assemblies and deployment issues
• Reflection
• Interoperability with COM and .NET
• Overview of .NET packages for common programming tasks (including collections, Web services, XML, and Web-based applications)
• Essential .NET tools
• References to C# keywords
• References and format specifiers