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Mastering C# and .NET Framework

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Mastering C# and .NET Framework

Overview of this book

Mastering C# and .NET Framework will take you in to the depths of C# 6.0/7.0 and .NET 4.6, so you can understand how the platform works when it runs your code, and how you can use this knowledge to write efficient applications. Take full advantage of the new revolution in .NET development, including open source status and cross-platform capability, and get to grips with the architectural changes of CoreCLR. Start with how the CLR executes code, and discover the niche and advanced aspects of C# programming – from delegates and generics, through to asynchronous programming. Run through new forms of type declarations and assignments, source code callers, static using syntax, auto-property initializers, dictionary initializers, null conditional operators, and many others. Then unlock the true potential of the .NET platform. Learn how to write OWASP-compliant applications, how to properly implement design patterns in C#, and how to follow the general SOLID principles and its implementations in C# code. We finish by focusing on tips and tricks that you'll need to get the most from C# and .NET. This book also covers .NET Core 1.1 concepts as per the latest RTM release in the last chapter.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Mastering C# and .NET Framework
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

C# 4 and .NET framework 4.0


With the release of Visual Studio 2010, new versions of the framework showed up, although that was the last time they were aligned (to date). C# 5.0 is linked to Visual Studio 2012 and .NET framework 4.5, and C# 6, appeared in Visual Studio 2015 and was related to a new (not too big) review of .NET framework: 4.6. The same happens to C#7, although this is aligned with Visual Studio 2017.

Just to clarify things, I'm including a table that shows the whole evolution of the language and the frameworks aligned to them along with the main features and the corresponding version of Visual Studio:

C# version

.NET version

Visual Studio

Main features

C# 1.0

.NET 1.0

V. S. 2002

Initial

C# 1.2

.NET 1.1

V. S. 2003

Minor features and fixes.

C# 2.0

.NET 2.0

V. S. 2005

Generics, anonymous methods, nullable types, iterator blocks.

C# 3.0

.NET 3.5

V. S. 2008

Anonymous types, var declarations (implicit typing), lambdas, extension methods, LINQ, expression trees...