You're reading from Learn C# Programming A guide to building a solid foundation in C# language for writing efficient programs

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789805864

Length 636 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Authors (4):

Marius Bancila

Tripathi

Rialdi

Ankit Sharma

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Starting with the Building Blocks of C#

2. Chapter 2: Data Types and Operators FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Control Statements and Exceptions

4. Chapter 4: Understanding the Various User-Defined Types

5. Chapter 5: Object-Oriented Programming in C#

6. Chapter 6: Generics

7. Chapter 7: Collections

8. Chapter 8: Advanced Topics

9. Chapter 9: Resource Management

10. Chapter 10: Lambdas, LINQ, and Functional Programming

11. Chapter 11: Reflection and Dynamic Programming

12. Chapter 12: Multithreading and Asynchronous Programming

13. Chapter 13: Files, Streams, and Serialization

14. Chapter 14: Error Handling

15. Chapter 15: New Features of C# 8

16. Chapter 16: C# in Action with .NET Core 3

17. Chapter 17: Unit Testing

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Chapter 1: Starting with the Building Blocks of C#

C# is one of the most widely used general-purpose programming languages. It is a multi-paradigm language that combines object-oriented, imperative, declarative, functional, generic, and dynamic programming. C# is one of the programming languages designed for the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) platform, which is an open specification developed by Microsoft and standardized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and European Computer Manufacturers Association (ECMA) that describes executable code and a runtime environment to be used on different computer platforms without being rewritten for specific architectures.

Over the years, C# has evolved with powerful features released version by version. The most recent version (at the time of writing) is C# 8, which has introduced several features to empower developers to be more productive. These include nullable reference types, ranges and indices, asynchronous streams, default implementations of interface members, recursive patterns, switch expressions, and many others. You will learn about these features in detail in Chapter 15, New Features of C# 8.

In this chapter, we will introduce you to the language, the .NET Framework, and the basic concepts around them. We have structured the contents of this chapter as follows: