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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

Chapter 4. Comparing Approaches for Programming

Up until this point, we have centered upon the C# language and its evolution. However, this evolution is not the only one in .NET framework as far as languages are concerned. Other languages have kept evolving as well (and this is independent of the fact that many more compilers have increased the list of languages for which there is a .NET version nowadays). Especially, there are two members of the .NET language ecosystem, F# and TypeScript, which are becoming increasingly popular among the programmer community, and we're going to—briefly—introduce them in this chapter.

Consequently, we will review some of the most relevant aspects of both languages, with C# as a reference in both cases.

With this goal, our purpose is to roughly underline the most crucial programming structures in such a way that you can establish a comparison between the ways you code usual and everyday programming tasks but using different languages.

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