Version 2.0 and Compact Framework Ready
.NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, Volume 2, completes the definitive reference to the .NET Framework class libraries. This book/CD set offers programmers unparalleled insight, not only into the actual ECMA and ISO specifications for the classes and members, but also into how to use them and why they were designed as they were. This volume covers the networking, reflection, XML, specialized collection, globalization, security, and compiler and Interop services libraries, complementing Volume 1's coverage of the base class and extended numerics libraries.
The printed book contains high-level descriptions of each namespace, plus detailed descriptions of and samples for each class, including annotations, diagrams, and tables of members. The accompanying CD contains all of that, plus detailed descriptions of each member and samples for most members--almost four thousand searchable pages of immediately useful reference material, plus a full source-code archive.
With the ECMA and ISO standards as its core, the book and CD include:
- A clear and complete overview of each namespace,
describing its purpose and functionality and the inheritance
hierarchy of types it defines.
- Type descriptions. Each class and struct is covered in its own
chapter, with a quick reference to the C# declaration
syntax for all members defined in the type, and a detailed
description of how the type is used.
- Annotations from key insiders: members of the Microsoft
design team and the ECMA standardization committee.
These comments cover everything from designrationale and
history to common problems and shortcomings, with unusual
clarity and candor.
- Reference tabs and an exhaustive index, which allow readers
to quickly and easily navigate the text.
- Code samples. Types are illustrated by working code samples,
with output included.
- Reusable source code for the more than one thousand
samples is supplied as an archive on the CD. All code has
been tested with Versions 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 of the .NET
Framework and, where appropriate, with the .NET Compact
Framework.
I. NAMESPACE OVERVIEWS.
II. CLASS LIBRARIES.
Annotations Index.