Advanced C# Programming (Paperback)

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This advanced resource is ideal for experienced programmers seeking practical solutions to real problems. Discover valuable coding techniques and best practices while learning to master Microsoft's newest cross-platform programming language. This definitive guide will show you how to expertly apply and integrate C# into your business applications. Create user controls, special effects text, dynamic user interfaces, custom attributes--plus, you'll also find reliable security and authentication methods.

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Your Definitive Professional Resource

Build solutions for the Microsoft .NET platform quickly and easily with C#--an efficient, object-oriented language. Advanced C# Programming thoroughly explains real-world solutions you can apply to a wide range of business applications or to programming problems. This book also reviews working code available on Microsoft's portal. Maximize the vast capabilities of C# in three key areas--Windows applications, tools and component building, and Web programming--using the advanced development strategies presented in this professional resource.

• Get an overview of core language foundations you will need to create applications
• Explore Windows Forms programming, multithreading, GDI+, and more in .NET
• Incorporate roles-based and code access security
• Use attributes, exception handlers, event logging, and other proven programming methods with ease
• Extend the Visual Studio .NET IDE using the new extensibility model
• Implement Web methods, Web services, and asynchronous Web services
• Learn to use C# in ASP.NET code behind pages, and use cookies, page, and session caching
• Learn about ADO.NET, Reflection, and emitting IL by exploring the assembly viewer applications
• Significantly minimize the number of bugs that make it off your work station

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Product Details

• Paperback: 551 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/OsborneMedia; 1st edition (September 4, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072224177
• ISBN-13: 978-0072224177
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,295,472 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars This is book is a waste of time, January 9, 2004

By A Customer

There is a rarely a case when I wonder why a book got published and this one meets that case. The content and examples are terrible and the order of the book does give any indication of advanced concepts in C#. This book tells me what advanced concepts in C# can do, but doesn't expound on here they are done. Terrible book and written for, well, I don't know who.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars OK but no Terrarium, August 27, 2004

By	Andrew Phillips "x" (Australia) - See all my reviews

First I think the title is a bit misleading. It is an intermediate level book. There is not enough room to cover anything reaaly advanced.

The text is readable and seems to cover the salient points. There are quite a few inaccuracies, but there are in all books I have read. The author occasionally mentions completely unrelated topics, perhaps in an attempt to impress, but (when he strays into an area with which I am familiar) only manages to show his ignorance.

The code is easy enough to understand but is very rambling with a few oddities. I think the author is trying to vaguely demonstrate other ideas (particuarly desing patterns) about which he is no expert. Instead, he should just concentrate on simple code that demonstrates the topic in question.

That said, the author obviously knows a lot about programming many different areas of .NET. I found I learnt a lot by reading the book, looking at the code and then rewriting it to my standards.

The worst thing about the book is that it comes with no CD, relying on you downloading the code from the Internet. The code from the Osborne web site is easy enough to download, but a couple of the chapters rely on code from Microsoft. I have tried many times to download the "Terrarium" application from www.gotdotnet.com to no avail. How hard would (and expensive) it be to put everything you need onto a CD?

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not much to see here, January 14, 2009

By	River "River" - See all my reviews

This book is of some value. For instance it contains a discussion of attributes. Information on this topic is still hard to find.

The discussion of many points of object programming can be characterized as original and even informative, but it is also riddled with errors.

For example, Kimmel gets the definition of Generalization and Specialization completely backward with regard to Inheritance. That mistake is forgivable, because you can substitute the words while you are reading and it still makes sense.

But it is not forgivable when he clearly knows nothing about a concept, yet attempts to fake it. The section of Aggregation and Encapsulation contains almost zero information other than his "favorite example of encapsulation is the relationship between the human body and the bladder."

Later he attempts to muddle over his complete lack of understanding of the topic of Polymorphism with a bizzare example regarding sending children to get beer during the superbowl. After this detour into the irrelevant he triumphantly exclaims "That's polymorphism."

No it isn't.