Product Description

Completely updated for C# 3.0 and the .NET 3.5 platform, the new edition of this bestseller offers more than 250 code recipes to common and not-so-common problems that C# programmers face every day. Every recipe in the book has been reconsidered with more than a third of them rewritten to take advantage of new C# 3.0 features. If you prefer solutions you can use today to general C# language instruction, and quick answers to theory, this is your book. C# 3.0 Cookbook offers a new chapter on LINQ (language integrated query), plus two expanded chapters for recipes for extension methods, lambda functions, object initializers, new synchronization primitives and more. The new edition is also complemented by a public wiki, which not only includes all of the C# 2.0 recipes from the previous edition unchanged by the release of C# 3.0, but invites you to suggest better ways to solve those tasks. Here are some of topics covered: LINQ Numeric data types and Enumerations Strings and characters Classes and structures Generics Collections Exception handling Delegates, events, and lambda expressions Filesystem interactions Web site access XML usage (including LINQ to XML, XPath and XSLT) Networking Threading Data Structures & Algorithms Each recipe in the book includes tested code that you can download from oreilly.com and reuse in your own applications, and each one includes a detailed discussion of how and why the underling technology works. You don’t have to be an experienced C# or .NET developer to use C# 3.0 Cookbook. You just have to be someone who wants to solve a problem now, without having to learn all the related theory first.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #25605 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-11
• Format: Illustrated
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 886 pages

About the Author
Jay Hilyard has been developing applications for the Windows platform for over 15 years and for .NET for more than seven of those. He has published numerous articles in MSDN Magazine and he currently works on the New Product Team at Newmarket International in Portsmouth, NH. Stephen Teilhet has been working with the .NET platform since the pre-alpha version of the.NET 1.0 framework was being developed by Microsoft. Currently he works for Ounce Labs where he is working on enhancing their static security code analysis tool to find vulnerabilities in several languages including C# and Visual Basic.

Customer Reviews

Learn to boil water!
This is a good intro book that eliminates the need for some of the first books I bought on C#. When compared to other “cookbooks”, however, this book is incredibly weak (see: XSLT Cookbook, SQL Cookbook). If you have used C# for more than 6 months, you will know how to iterate over an array, to use String.IsNullOrEmpty, get the index of a value within a string, and use a generic arraylist. These are just some of the junior “recipes” you’ll see in this book. The “recipes” just exercise the fundamentals (i.e. how to boil water) rather than how the fundamentals work together to solve complex problems in elegant ways. The easier the concept, the more information. There is really any analysis or best-practice justification present. I’d like to see some performance analysis of generics or at least some depth on partial methods. Nothing to see here for mid-level developers. Not written or organized poorly, just simple. If it were titled “Intro to C# by example”, I’d give it a higher score.

One of the best books on C# I own
This book is perpetually on my desk, whenever I cannot easily figure out how to do something, I check this book before going to MSDN, etc. Critical member of my bookshelf.

A handfull book for midlevel to advanced programmers
This book covers all the needs for those who want to learn a little bit more of C#.

I’m very pleased the way the author examplifies using design patterns, 3.5 features and explaining all the time the pros and cons of the code given.

As bottom note I should recommend this for all you who wants to gather a little more experience in c#.

Greets from Brazil, Diego.