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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

Some useful tools


If we deal with definitions and also with the distinct ways in which a system's API should be called from .NET, there's a reference website: PInvoke.net (available at http://www.pinvoke.net/).

You'll find the vast majority of the system's APIs clearly detailed, explaining the way they work, how they should be defined in our code (either from C# or VB.NET), and all other related information.

For example, knowing that all window messages are defined with the WM_ prefix, we can expand it under the Constants topic to locate the one I used earlier.

Furthermore, we are shown a definition of the message and its purpose, along with the hexadecimal number associated with it, and at the end of that list, you'll find the C# definitions, where it's easy to locate those linked to the left button, as shown in the next screenshots:

Following, you can see the definitions in C# code, ready to use in a program:

In the code, as you already know, we can use the decimal equivalent (as I did) or...