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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

What's new in C# 6.0


Some pretty interesting features appeared in this version of the language, in many cases, linked to everyday problems and suggestions of developers worldwide. Also, as stated in Table 1 of this chapter, the really huge, meaningful improvement comes from a set of functionalities linked to Roslyn Services, which provide a different bunch of possibilities related to the editing and compiling features of the IDE. We will cover these in Chapter 8, Open Source Programming.

However, Roselyn is not the only interesting option that appeared in C# 6.0. There are a number of minor but very useful and syntactic "sweets" this version includes, which help the coder write more succinct expressions and reduce the occurrence of bugs. Let's start with something called string interpolation.

String interpolation

String interpolation is a way to simplify string expressions that contain C/C++ style interpolation. For instance, instead of writing the classic Console.Write("string {0}", data)...