Professional C#

If we were to describe the C# language and its associated environment, the .NET framework as the most important new technology for developers for many years we would not be exaggerating. .NET is designed to provide a new environment within which you can develop almost any application to run on Windows, while C# is a new programming language that has been designed specifically to work with .NET.

Using C#, you can write, for example, a dynamic web page, a component of a distributed application, a database access component, or a classic Windows desktop application.

Between them C# and .NET are set to revolutionise the way that you write programs and to make programming on Windows very much easier than it has ever been.

This book should equip you to program in C#, while at the same time providing the necessary background in how the .NET architecture works.

It covers not only the fundamentals of the C# language, but also goes on to give examples of applications that use a variety of related technologies - including database access, dynamic web pages, advanced graphics, and directory access.