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C# Programming Cookbook

By : Dirk Strauss
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C# Programming Cookbook

By: Dirk Strauss

Overview of this book

During your application development workflow, there is always a moment when you need to get out of a tight spot. Through a recipe-based approach, this book will help you overcome common programming problems and get your applications ready to face the modern world. We start with C# 6, giving you hands-on experience with the new language features. Next, we work through the tasks that you perform on a daily basis such as working with strings, generics, and lots more. Gradually, we move on to more advanced topics such as the concept of object-oriented programming, asynchronous programming, reactive extensions, and code contracts. You will learn responsive high performance programming in C# and how to create applications with Azure. Next, we will review the choices available when choosing a source control solution. At the end of the book, we will show you how to create secure and robust code, and will help you ramp up your skills when using the new version of C# 6 and Visual Studio
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
C# Programming Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


Often, during your day-to-day dealings with developing applications in C#, you will have to use asynchronous programming. You might also have to deal with many data sources. Think of a web service that returns the current exchange rates, a Twitter search returning a stream of related data, or even different events generated by multiple computers. Rx provides an elegant solution in the form of the IObserver<T> interface.

You use the IObserver<T> interface to subscribe to the events. Then, the IObservable<T> interface, which maintains a list of IObserver<T> interfaces, will notify them on the change of state. In essence, Rx will stick together multiple data sources (social media, RSS feeds, UI events, and so on) that generate data. Rx, therefore, brings these data sources together in one interface. In fact, Rx can be thought of as consisting of three sections:

  • Observables: The interface that brings together and represents all these data streams

  • Language...