CLR via C#, 4th Edition

Paperback: 896 pages
Publisher: Microsoft Press; 4th Edition (October 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0735667454
ISBN-13: 978-0735667457

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Dig deep and master the intricacies of the common language runtime, C#, and .NET development. Led by programming expert Jeffrey Richter, a longtime consultant to the Microsoft .NET team—you’ll gain pragmatic insights for building robust, reliable, and responsive apps and components.

Fully updated for .NET Framework 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012
Delivers a thorough grounding in the .NET Framework architecture, runtime environment, and other key topics, including asynchronous programming and the new Windows Runtime
Provides extensive code samples in Visual C# 2012
Features authoritative, pragmatic guidance on difficult development concepts such as generics and threading

Table of Contents
Part I: CLR Basics
Chapter 1. The CLR’s Execution Model
Chapter 2. Building, Packaging, Deploying, and Administering Applications and Types
Chapter 3. Shared Assemblies and Strongly Named Assemblies

Part II: Designing Types
Chapter 4. Type Fundamentals
Chapter 5. Primitive, Reference, and Value Types
Chapter 6. Type and Member Basics
Chapter 7. Constants and Fields
Chapter 8. Methods
Chapter 9. Parameters
Chapter 10. Properties
Chapter 11. Events
Chapter 12. Generics
Chapter 13. Interfaces

Part III: Essential Types
Chapter 14. Chars, Strings, and Working with Text
Chapter 15. Enumerated Types and Bit Flags
Chapter 16. Arrays
Chapter 17. Delegates
Chapter 18. Custom Attributes
Chapter 19. Nullable Value Types

Part IV: Core Facilities
Chapter 20. Exceptions and State Management
Chapter 21. The Managed Heap and Garbage Collection
Chapter 22. CLR Hosting and AppDomains
Chapter 23. Assembly Loading and Reflection
Chapter 24. Runtime Serialization
Chapter 25. Interoperating with WinRT Components

Part V: Threading
Chapter 26. Thread Basics
Chapter 27. Compute-Bound Asynchronous Operations
Chapter 28. I/O-Bound Asynchronous Operations
Chapter 29. Primitive Thread Synchronization Constructs
Chapter 30. Hybrid Thread Synchronization Constructs