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Essential C# Book

A well-organized, no-fluff guide to C# for programmers at all experience levels.

Book cover for Essential C Sharp 8.0 by Mark Michaelis with Eric Lippert and Kevin Bost

Essential C# Book

Mark is super smart, insists on understanding everything to the core, and has phenomenal insight into how things affect real developers. He goes right to the essence and communicates with great integrity — no sugarcoating.
Mads Torgersen, C# Lead Designer, Microsoft
Mark is super smart, insists on understanding everything to the core, and has phenomenal insight into how things affect real developers. He goes right to the essence and communicates with great integrity — no sugarcoating.
Mads Torgersen, C# Lead Designer, Microsoft

Enhance Your C# Skills

World-class C# expert Mark Michaelis presents a comprehensive tutorial and reference for the entire language, providing an accelerated learning opportunity to achieve expert C# programming skills. He includes key C# 8.0 enhancements and succinct examples to illustrate key constructs. Also, he reviews updated coding guidelines for minimizing bugs and writing code that’s easier to evolve. To help you quickly find what you need, version-specific indexes of C# 6.0, 7.0, and 8.0 topics and visual icons identify when each language innovation was introduced.

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A Peek Inside

  • Use structured programming constructs to write functioning code immediately
  • Learn both the complexities and solutions to nullable reference types
  • Thoroughly master C# object constructs, including classes, inheritance, and interfaces
  • Reduce code redundancy with generics, delegates, lambda expressions, and events
  • Take full advantage of collections, including the new standard query operator collection API

More Highlights

  • Make the most of reflection, attributes, and the declarative programming paradigm
  • Improve multithreading with the task-based async pattern and C# 8.0 asynchronous streams
  • Enhance performance through the parallel processing of data and multithreading tasks
  • Program complex types with enhanced pattern matching syntax
  • Interoperate with unmanaged code written in other languages, including C-based APIs
  • Explore the relationship between C# programs and the underlying CLI runtime
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Book cover for Essential C Sharp 8.0 by Mark Michaelis with Eric Lippert and Kevin Bost

Start Expanding Your C# Knowledge!

Book cover for Essential C Sharp 8.0 by Mark Michaelis with Eric Lippert and Kevin Bost

Start Expanding Your C# Knowledge!