C#'s resemblances to C++, Java, and C make it easier
to learn, but there's a downside: C# programmers often continue to use older techniques when far better alternatives are available. In Effective C#, respected .NET expert Bill Wagner identifies fifty ways you can start leveraging the
full power of C# in order to write faster, more efficient,
and more reliable software.
Effective C# follows the format that made Effective C++ (Addison-Wesley, 1998) and Effective Java (Addison-Wesley, 2001) indispensable to hundreds of thousands of developers: clear, practical explanations, expert tips, and plenty of realistic code examples. Drawing on his unsurpassed C# experience, Wagner addresses everything from value types to assemblies, exceptions to reflection. Along the way, he shows exactly how to avoid dozens of common C# performance and reliability pitfalls. You'll learn how to:
- Use both types of C# constants for efficiency and
maintainability, see item 2
- Use immutable data types to eliminate unnecessary error
checking, see item 7
- Avoid the C# function that'll practically always get you in
trouble, see item 10
- Minimize garbage collection, boxing, and unboxing, see items
16 and 17
- Take full advantage of interfaces and delegates, see items
19 though 22
- Create CLS compliant assemblies that use noncompliant
C# language features, see item 30
- Improve reliability and maintainability by creating small,
cohesive assemblies, see item 32
- Leverage the full power of .NET's runtime diagnostics,
see item 36
- Know when—and when not—to use reflection, see items
42 and 43
- Preview the major enhancements in C# 2.0, see item 49
- You're already a successful C# programmer—this book can
help you become an outstanding one.
Chapter 1 C# language elements
Chapter 2 .NET resource management
Chapter 3 Expressing designs with C#
Chapter 4 Creating binary components
Chapter 5 Working with the framework
Chapter 6 Miscellaneous
Author Description
Bill Wagner is co-founder of and .NET consultant for SRT Solutions. A nationally recognized independent expert on .NET, he has been a regular contributor to ASP.NET
Pro Magazine, Visual Studio Magazine, and the .NET Insight newsletter. In addition to being a Microsoft Regional Director,
he is also active in the Southeast Michigan .NET User Group and the Ann Arbor Computing Society. He is author of The
C# Core Language Little Black Book (The Coriolis Group, 2002)