You're reading from Learn C# Programming A guide to building a solid foundation in C# language for writing efficient programs

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789805864

Length 636 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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.NET

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Programming Language

Authors (4):

Raffaele Rialdi

Ankit Sharma

Prakash Tripathi

Marius Bancila

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Starting with the Building Blocks of C#

2. Chapter 2: Data Types and Operators FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Control Statements and Exceptions

4. Chapter 4: Understanding the Various User-Defined Types

5. Chapter 5: Object-Oriented Programming in C#

6. Chapter 6: Generics

7. Chapter 7: Collections

8. Chapter 8: Advanced Topics

9. Chapter 9: Resource Management

10. Chapter 10: Lambdas, LINQ, and Functional Programming

11. Chapter 11: Reflection and Dynamic Programming

12. Chapter 12: Multithreading and Asynchronous Programming

13. Chapter 13: Files, Streams, and Serialization

14. Chapter 14: Error Handling

15. Chapter 15: New Features of C# 8

16. Chapter 16: C# in Action with .NET Core 3

17. Chapter 17: Unit Testing

18. Assessments

19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 1

The first version of the C# language, 1.0, was released in 2002, bundled with .NET Framework 1.0 and Visual Studio .NET 2002. The current version of the language, at the time of writing this book, is C# 8.
The CLI is a specification that describes how a runtime environment can be used on different computer platforms without being rewritten for specific architectures. The CLI describes four major components: The Common Type System (CTS), the Common Language Specification (CLS), the Virtual Execution System (VES), and the metadata of a program's structure and content.
The CIL is a platform-neutral intermediate language that represents the intermediate language binary instruction set defined by the CLI. When you compile your program's source code, the compiler translates it into the CIL bytecode and produces a CLI assembly. When the CLI assembly is executed, the bytecode is passed through the Just-In-Time compiler to generate native code, which is then...