Product Description

Get the essential, straightforward information you need to master the core capabilities of Visual C# 2005. Both new and experienced developers get expert guidance, hands-on programming instruction, and practical examples to help advance their proficiency in developing applications for Microsoft Windows and the Web. Discover how to: • Refine class usage with inheritance, polymorphism, and other strategies • Implement generics to define a type-safe data structure • Work with stacks, queues, arrays, dictionaries, and other collections • Use iterators to implement and standardize enumerator patterns • Know when to catch exceptions—and handle them locally or propagate them • Interrogate metadata and facilitate late binding by using reflection • Synchronize threads with locks, events, mutexes, and other tools • Use the Microsoft Visual Studio Debugger and explore advanced debugging techniques and tools Get code samples on the Web 

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #412576 in Books
• Published on: 2006-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 704 pages

Customer Reviews

badly written
I bought the book because it's a recommended book for the MSTS exams. I have to say I find it quite fustrating! The examples don't demonstrate what the author is trying to convey because you can't see the output of the sample code, the tables referred to in the text can be quite further on in the book (5 pages) and the author seems to just write sentences for the sake of writing sentences.

Overall not too impressed so far.

Not that good
The quality of this book is rather patchy and there are a lot of obvious errors that make the book frustrating to read. The first chapter is a badly written rehash of the C# Language Specification that does not add any value and lacks the specification's rigor. Fortunately the other chapters are more useful but can sometimes seem a bit long-winded. It would also help if the book included the output from the numerous code examples – without this, some of the examples just take up space.