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.


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