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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

Summary


We saw the most renowned features included in recent versions of the C# language and .NET Framework from their 4.0 versions.

We covered the C# 4.0 version, with a review of Delegate and Interface generic variance (covariance and contravariance), dynamic declarations, argument improvements, tuples and Lazy Instantiation of objects, which implied important changes in expressiveness and the power of the C# language.

Then, we gave a brief introduction to the async/await structure as a means to simplify asynchronous calls by coding the two parts usually required in only one method.

Next, we did a review of the most important features included in version C# 6.0, which is mainly based on new ways to reduce verbosity in the language.

Finally, we've seen the most important features added to the recently published version 7.0, which are mainly based on syntactic sugar to make expressions more meaningful and the new pattern matching features which make the use of tuples a very feasible option in...