The Manchester College

C# 5 First Look.

Martinez, Joel

C# 5 First Look. - Birmingham, England : Birmingham, England : Packt Pub, Packt Pub. 2012 ; - 1 online resource (258 pages) $a

Table of Contents; C# 5 First Look; C# 5 First Look; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more; Why Subscribe?; Free Access for Packt account holders; Instant Updates on New Packt Books; Preface; What this book covers; What you need for this book; Who this book is for; Conventions; Reader feedback; Customer support; Downloading the example code; Errata; Piracy; Questions; 1. Getting Started with C#; Origins; C# is born; The tools; Visual Studio; Full versions of Visual Studio; Licensing; Express; Using Visual Studio. Command-line compilerSharpDevelop; MonoDevelop; Summary; 2. Evolution of C#; C# 1.0 -- in the beginning; Runtime; Memory management; Syntax features; Base Class Library; C# 2.0; Syntax updates; Anonymous methods; Partial classes; Generics; Generic collections; Iterator methods; C# 3.0; Syntax updates; LINQ; Extension methods; C# 4.0; Summary; 3. Asynchrony in Action; Asynchrony; Task Parallel Library; Task composability; Error handling with tasks; async and await; Composing async calls; Error handling with async methods; Impact of async; Improvements in .NET 4.5 Framework; TPL DataFlow. ActionBlockTransformBlock; BatchBlock; BroadcastBlock; Async I/O; Caller attributes; Summary; 4. Creating a Windows Store App; Making a Flickr browser; Getting the project started; Connecting to Flickr; Creating the UI; Summary; 5. Mobile Web App; Mobile Web with ASP.NET MVC; Building a MeatSpace tracker; Iteration zero; Going asynchronous; Getting the user's location; Broadcasting with SignalR; Mapping users; Testing the app; Summary; 6. Cross-platform Development; Building a web scraper; Building the model; Accessing the Web; Making a DataSource; Building the view; Summary; Index.

Table of Contents; C# 5 First Look; C# 5 First Look; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more; Why Subscribe?; Free Access for Packt account holders; Instant Updates on New Packt Books; Preface; What this book covers; What you need for this book; Who this book is for; Conventions; Reader feedback; Customer support; Downloading the example code; Errata; Piracy; Questions; 1. Getting Started with C#; Origins; C# is born; The tools; Visual Studio; Full versions of Visual Studio; Licensing; Express; Using Visual StudioCommand-line compilerSharpDevelop; MonoDevelop; Summary; 2. Evolution of C#; C# 1.0 -- in the beginning; Runtime; Memory management; Syntax features; Base Class Library; C# 2.0; Syntax updates; Anonymous methods; Partial classes; Generics; Generic collections; Iterator methods; C# 3.0; Syntax updates; LINQ; Extension methods; C# 4.0; Summary; 3. Asynchrony in Action; Asynchrony; Task Parallel Library; Ta ... This will be a mix of concept introduction and examples, and with each new feature and enhancement we will give an example to the readers. C# 5 First Look will provide a gist of C# 5 to the readers. ""C# 5 First Look"" is for developers who want to learn about the latest version of C#. It is assumed that you have basic programming knowledge. Experience with prior versions of C# or the .NET Framework would be helpful, but not mandatory.

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