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Learn C# Programming

By : Marius Bancila, Raffaele Rialdi, Ankit Sharma
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Book Image

Learn C# Programming

5 (1)
By: Marius Bancila, Raffaele Rialdi, Ankit Sharma

Overview of this book

The C# programming language is often developers’ primary choice for creating a wide range of applications for desktop, cloud, and mobile. In nearly two decades of its existence, C# has evolved from a general-purpose, object-oriented language to a multi-paradigm language with impressive features. This book will take you through C# from the ground up in a step-by-step manner. You'll start with the building blocks of C#, which include basic data types, variables, strings, arrays, operators, control statements, and loops. Once comfortable with the basics, you'll then progress to learning object-oriented programming concepts such as classes and structures, objects, interfaces, and abstraction. Generics, functional programming, dynamic, and asynchronous programming are covered in detail. This book also takes you through regular expressions, reflection, memory management, pattern matching, exceptions, and many other advanced topics. As you advance, you'll explore the .NET Core 3 framework and learn how to use the dotnet command-line interface (CLI), consume NuGet packages, develop for Linux, and migrate apps built with .NET Framework. Finally, you'll understand how to run unit tests with the Microsoft unit testing frameworks available in Visual Studio. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-versed with the essentials of the C# language and be ready to start creating apps with it.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)

Summary

This last chapter of this book was dedicated to unit testing, which is essential for writing quality code. We started with a basic introduction to unit testing and learned about the Microsoft tools for writing unit tests, including the unit testing framework for managed code. We have seen how to create unit testing projects using this framework, both for .NET Framework and .NET Core. We then looked at the most important features of the unit testing framework and learned how to write unit tests. In the last section, we learned about data-driven tests and saw how to write tests with data from various data sources.

As this book concludes here, we, the authors, would like to thank you for taking the time to read it. By writing this book, we tried to provide you with everything that was essential for you to become proficient in the C# language. We hope this book proves a valuable resource for you in learning and mastering the C# language.