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Beginning C# 7 Hands-On ??? Advanced Language Features

By : Tom Owsiak
Book Image

Beginning C# 7 Hands-On ??? Advanced Language Features

By: Tom Owsiak

Overview of this book

Beginning C# 7 Hands-On – Advanced Language Features assumes that you’ve mastered the basic elements of the C# language and that you're now ready to learn the more advanced C# language and syntax, line by line, in a working Visual Studio environment. You'll learn how to code advanced C# language topics including generics, lambda expressions, and anonymous methods. You'll learn to use query syntax to construct queries and deploy queries that perform aggregation functions. Work with C# and SQL Server 2017 to perform complex joins and stored procedures. Explore advanced file access methods, and see how to serialize and deserialize objects – all by writing working lines of code that you can run within Visual Studio. This book is designed for beginner C# developers who have mastered the basics now, and anyone who needs a fast reference to using advanced C# language features in practical coding examples. You'll also take a look at C# through web programming with web forms. By the time you’ve finished this book, you’ll know all the critical advanced elements of the C# language and how to program everything from C# generics to XML, LINQ, and your first full MVC web applications. These are the advanced building blocks that you can then combine to exploit the full power of the C# programming language, line by line.
Table of Contents (35 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Summary


In this chapter, you learned about generic methods, which are methods that can operate on different data types. You also learned about constraining a method in terms of the data types that it can operate on, a concept called constraints. You created a GenMethods class, wrote a Swap function, compared values using the CompareTo method, learned about constraints, and modified the program to perform additional types of comparisons and to work with different data types.

In the next chapter, you will learn about up casting, down casting, and then how to implement a generic interface and how that exactly helps us.