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Mastering C# and .NET Framework

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Product type Book
Published in Dec 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785884375
Pages 560 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters close

Mastering C# and .NET Framework
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Inside the CLR 2. Core Concepts of C# and .NET 3. Advanced Concepts of C# and .NET 4. Comparing Approaches for Programming 5. Reflection and Dynamic Programming 6. SQL Database Programming 7. NoSQL Database Programming 8. Open Source Programming 9. Architecture 10. Design Patterns 11. Security 12. Performance 13. Advanced Topics Index

Historical open source movements


Microsoft began to pave the way in open source as far back as 2003, when the first moves were made in order to adopt GPL Licensing on some products, the most noticeable being the effort to standardize the .NET Framework platform in general and the C# Language in particular.

Actually, it was soon approved as a standard by ECMA (ECMA-334) and ISO (ISO/IEC 23270:2006).

Later on, the Mono Project (Xamarin) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_(software)), which is now part of Microsoft, provided versions of .NET capable of running in Linux and MacOS. This was probably the first serious attempt to make C# universal. The Mono licensing model was clearly open (http://www.mono-project.com/docs/faq/licensing/), although their IDE was not (Xamarin Studio).

However, the acquisition of Xamarin by Microsoft brought even better news to developers, since now, clients of Visual Studio Community Edition could find Xamarin tools and libraries embedded in the IDE with all the value...

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