About The Author:
Andrew Troelsen is a partner, trainer, and consultant at Intertech-Inc., and is a leading authority on both .NET and COM. His book Pro C# 2005 and the .NET 2.0 Platform won the prestigious 2003 Referenceware Excellence Award and is now in its third edition. Also of note are his earlier five-star treatment of traditional COM in the bestselling Developer's Workshop to COM and ATL mirrored in his book, COM and .NET Interoperability, and his top-notch investigation of VB .NET in Visual Basic .NET and the .NET Platform: An Advanced Guide. Troelsen has a degree in mathematical linguistics and South Asian studies from the University of Minnesota and is a frequent speaker at numerous .NET-related conferences. He currently lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with his wife, Amanda, and spends his free time investigating .NET and waiting for the Wild to win the Stanley Cup.Table Of Contents:
Part I Introducing C# and the .NET Platform· The Philosophy of .NET
· Building C# Applications
Part II The C# Programming Language
· C# Language Fundamentals
· Object-Oriented Programming with C# 2.0
· Understanding Object Lifetime
· Understanding Structured Exception Handling
· Interfaces and Collections
· Callback Interfaces, Delegates, and Events
· Advanced C# Type Construction Techniques
· Understanding Generics
Part III Programming with .NET Assemblies
· Introducing .NET Assemblies
· Type Reflection, Late Binding, and Attribute-Based Programming
· Processes, AppDomains, Contexts, and CLR Hosts
· Building Multithreaded Applications
· Understanding CIL and the Role of Dynamic Assemblies
Part IV Programming With The .NET Libraries
· The System.IO Namespace
· Understanding Object Serialization
· The .NET Remoting Layer
· Building a Better Window with System.Windows.Forms
· Rendering Graphical Data with GDI+
· Programming with Windows Forms Controls
· Database Access with ADO.NET
Part V Web Applications And XML Web Services
· ASP.NET 2.0 Web Pages and Web Controls
· ASP.NET 2.0 Web Applications
· Understanding XML Web Services
Part VI Programming With .NET 3.0 Extensions
· Establishing a .NET 3.0 Programming Environment
· Introducing Windows Presentation Foundation
· Introducing Windows Communication Foundation
· Introducing Windows Workflow Foundation
· C# 3.0 Language Features
· An Introduction to LINQ
Special Features:
· .NET Web Developers
