CLR via C#

by Jeffrey Richter

Overview

Dig deep and master the intricacies of the common language runtime, C#, and .NET development. Led by programming expert Jeffrey Richter, a longtime consultant to the Microsoft .NET team - you’ll gain pragmatic insights for building robust, reliable, and responsive apps and components.

• Fully updated for .NET Framework 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012
• Delivers a thorough grounding in the .NET Framework architecture, runtime environment, and other key topics, including asynchronous programming and the new Windows Runtime
• Provides extensive code samples in Visual C# 2012
• Features authoritative, pragmatic guidance on difficult development concepts such as generics and threading

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780735668768
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	11/15/2012
Series:	Developer Reference
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	896
File size:	5 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Jeffrey Richter is a cofounder of Wintellect (www.wintellect.com), a training, consulting, and debugging firm dedicated to helping companies build better software faster. In addition to this book’s previous editions, he’s written several other popular programming titles. He has been a consultant to the Microsoft .NET Framework Team since 1999.

Table of Contents

• Part I CLR Basics
• Chapter 1 The CLR’s Execution Model
• Chapter 2 Building, Packaging, Deploying, and Administering Applications and Types
• Chapter 3 Shared Assemblies and Strongly Named Assemblies
• Part II Designing Types
• Chapter 4 Type Fundamentals
• Chapter 5 Primitive, Reference, and Value Types
• Chapter 6 Type and Member Basics
• Chapter 7 Constants and Fields
• Chapter 8 Methods
• Chapter 9 Parameters
• Chapter 10 Properties
• Chapter 11 Events
• Chapter 12 Generics
• Chapter 13 Interfaces
• Part III Essential Types
• Chapter 14 Chars, Strings, and Working with Text
• Chapter 15 Enumerated Types and Bit Flags
• Chapter 16 Arrays
• Chapter 17 Delegates
• Chapter 18 Custom Attributes
• Chapter 19 Nullable Value Types
• Part IV Core Facilities
• Chapter 20 Exceptions and State Management
• Chapter 21 The Managed Heap and Garbage Collection
• Chapter 22 CLR Hosting and AppDomains
• Chapter 23 Assembly Loading and Reflection
• Chapter 24 Runtime Serialization
• Chapter 25 Interoperating with WinRT Components
• Part V Threading
• Chapter 26 Thread Basics
• Chapter 27 Compute-Bound Asynchronous Operations
• Chapter 28 I/O-Bound Asynchronous Operations
• Chapter 29 Primitive Thread Synchronization Constructs
• Chapter 30 Hybrid Thread Synchronization Constructs
• Index