Getting Started with Advanced C#: Upgrade Your Programming Skills

Understand and work with the most important features of advanced C# in different programming environments. This book teaches you the fundamental features of advanced C# and how to incorporate them in different programming techniques using Visual Studio 2019.

The book is divided into two parts. Part I covers the fundamentals and essentials of advanced programming in C#. You will be introduced to delegates and events and then move on to lambda expressions. Part II teaches you how to implement these features in different programming techniques, starting with generic programming. After that, you will learn about thread programming and asynchronous programming, to benefit from a multi-threaded environment. Finally, you will learn database programming using ADO.NET to connect to a MySQL database and you will know how to exercise SQL statements and stored procedures through your C# applications.

What You Will Learn

• Use delegates, events, and lambda expressions in advanced programming
• Make your application flexible by utilizing generics
• Create a fast application with multi-threading and asynchronous programming
• Work in Visual Studio Community Edition, which is the most common IDE for using C#
• Understand alternative implementations along with their pros and cons

Who This Book Is For

Developers and programmers who are already working in C#

About the Author

Vaskaran Sarcar obtained his Master of Engineering in software engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata (India) and an MCA from Vidyasagar University, Midnapore (India). He was a National Gate Scholar (2007-2009) and has more than 12 years of experience in education and the IT industry. Vaskaran devoted his early years (2005-2007) to teaching at various engineering colleges and later he joined HP India PPS R&D Hub Bangalore and worked there until August, 2019. At the time of his retirement from the IT industry, he was a senior software engineer and a team lead at HP. To follow his dream and passion, Vaskaran is now a full-time author. Other Apress books by Vaskaran include: Interactive Object-Oriented Programming in Java (second edition), Java Design Patterns (second edition), Design Patterns in C#, Interactive C#, Interactive Object-Oriented Programming in Java, and Java Design Patterns.