Learning C# 8 covers in detail the most important building blocks of C# that will help you learn every aspect of C# programming with an easy learning curve. With extensive coverage of the topics explained with the real-world examples, you will gain an in-depth knowledge of practical details involved in software development using C#.

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright and Credits
• Dedication
• About Packt
• Foreword
• Contributors
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Chapter 1: Starting with the Building Blocks of C#
  • The history of C#
  • Understanding the CLI
    • Common Type System (CTS)
    • Common Language Specification (CLS)
    • Common Intermediate Language (CIL)
    • Virtual Execution System (VES)
  • The .NET family of frameworks
    • .NET Framework
    • .NET Core
    • Xamarin
  • Assemblies in .NET
    • Global Assembly Cache (GAC)
    • Runtime package store
  • Understanding the basic structure of a C# program
  • Summary
  • Test what you learned
• Chapter 2: Data Types and Operators
  • Basic data types
    • The integral types
    • The floating-point types
    • The decimal type
    • The char type
    • The bool type
    • The string type
    • The object type
  • Variables
    • Naming convention
    • Implicity-typed variables
    • Understanding the scope and lifetime of variables
  • Understanding constants
  • Reference types and value types
    • Value types
    • Reference types
    • Boxing and unboxing
  • Nullable types
  • Arrays
    • One-dimensional arrays
    • Multi-dimensional arrays
    • Jagged arrays
  • Type conversion
    • Implicit type conversion
    • Explicit type conversion
    • User-defined type conversions
    • Conversions with helper classes
  • Operators
    • Arithmetic operators
    • Relational operators
    • Logical operators
    • Bitwise and shift operators
    • Assignment operators
    • Other operators
  • Summary
  • Test what you learned
• Chapter 3: Control Statements and Exceptions
  • Understanding control statements
    • Selection statements
    • Iteration statements
    • The jump statements
  • Exception handling
  • Summary
  • Test what you learned
• Chapter 4: Understanding the Various User-Defined Types
  • Classes and objects
    • Fields
    • Methods
    • Constructors
    • Properties
    • Indexers
    • The this keyword
    • The static keyword
    • The ref, in, and out parameters
    • Methods with a variable number of arguments
    • Named and optional arguments
    • Access modifiers
    • Partial classes
  • Structures
  • Enumerations
  • Namespaces
  • Summary
  • Test what you learned
• Chapter 5: Object-Oriented Programming in C#
  • Understanding OOP
  • Abstraction
  • Encapsulation
  • Inheritance
    • Virtual members
    • Abstract classes and members
    • Sealed classes and members
    • Hiding base class members
    • Interfaces
  • Polymorphism
    • Method overloading
    • Operator overloading
  • SOLID principles
  • Summary
  • Test what you learned
  • Further Reading
• Chapter 6: Generics
  • Understanding generics
  • Generic types
    • Generic classes
    • Inheritance with generic classes
    • Generic interfaces
    • Variant generic interfaces
    • Generic structures
  • Generic methods
  • Type parameter constraints
  • Summary
  • Test what you learned
• Chapter 7: Collections
  • Introducing the System.Collections.Generic namespace
  • The List collection
  • The Stack collection
  • The Queue collection
  • The LinkedList collection
  • The Dictionary collection
  • The HashSet collection
    • Choosing the right collection type
  • Using thread-safe collections
    • IProducerConsumerCollection
    • BlockingCollection
    • ConcurrentQueue
    • ConcurrentStack
    • ConcurrentBag
    • ConcurrentDictionary
    • Choosing the right concurrent collection type
  • Summary
  • Test what you learned
• Chapter 8: Advanced Topics
  • Delegates and events
    • Delegates
    • Events
  • Anonymous types
  • Tuples
    • The Tuple class
    • Value tuples
  • Pattern matching
    • The is expression
    • The switch expression
  • Regular expressions
    • Overview
    • Matching input text
    • Finding substrings
    • Replacing parts of a text
  • Extension methods
  • Summary
  • Test what you learned
• Chapter 9: Resource Management
  • Garbage collection
  • Finalizers
  • The IDisposable interface
  • The using statement
  • Platform invoke
  • Unsafe code
  • Summary
  • Test what you learned
  • Further reading
• Chapter 10: Lambdas, LINQ, and Functional Programming
  • Functional programming
  • Functions as first-class citizens
  • Lambda expressions
  • LINQ
    • Standard query operators
    • Query syntax
  • More functional programming concepts
    • Partial function application
    • Currying
    • Closures
    • Monoids
    • Monads
  • Summary
  • Test what you learned
• Chapter 11: Reflection and Dynamic Programming
  • Understanding reflection
  • Dynamically loading assemblies
  • Understanding late binding
  • Using the dynamic type
  • Attributes
    • System attributes
    • User-defined attributes
    • How to use attributes?
    • Attribute targets
    • Assembly attributes
    • Attributes in reflection
  • Summary
  • Test what you learned
• Chapter 12: Multithreading and Asynchronous Programming
  • What is a thread?
  • Creating threads in .NET
    • Using the ThreadPool class
  • Understanding synchronization primitives
  • The task paradigm
    • Synchronous implementations of asynchronous methods
    • Occasionally asynchronous methods
    • Breaking the task chain – blocking the thread
    • Manually creating a task
    • Long-running tasks
    • Breaking the task chain – fire and forget
    • Task and exceptions
    • Canceling a task
    • Monitoring the progress of a task
    • Parallelizing tasks
    • Signaling tasks with the TaskCompletionSource object
    • Synchronization context
  • Summary
  • Test what you learned
  • Further reading
• Chapter 13: Files, Streams, and Serialization
  • Overview of the System.IO namespace
  • Working with paths
  • Working with files and directories
  • Working with streams
    • Overview of the stream classes
    • Working with file streams
    • Working with memory streams
  • Serializing and deserializing XML
  • Serializing and deserializing JSON
    • Using Json.NET
    • Using System.Text.Json
  • Summary
  • Test what you learned
• Chapter 14: Error Handling
  • Errors
  • Exceptions
    • Catching exceptions
    • The exception objects
    • Conditional catch
    • Throwing exceptions
    • Creating a custom exception type
    • Rethrowing an exception
    • The finally block
  • Debugging and monitoring exceptions
    • Debugging second-chance exceptions
    • Debugging first-chance exceptions
    • AppDomain exception events
    • Logging exceptions
  • Summary
  • Test what you learned
  • Further reading
• Chapter 15: New Features of C# 8
  • Nullable reference types
    • Enabling the nullable reference type feature
    • Working with nullable reference types
    • Migrating existing code to nullable reference types
  • Default implementation of interface members
    • Interface versioning
    • Interface reabstraction
    • Interfaces as traits
  • Ranges and indices
  • Pattern matching
    • Recursive pattern matching
  • The using declaration
  • Asynchronous Dispose
  • Disposable patterns in structs and ref structs
  • Asynchronous streams
  • Readonly struct members
  • Null coalescing assignment
  • Static local functions
  • Better interpolated verbatim strings
  • Using stackalloc in nested expressions
  • Unmanaged constructed types
  • Summary
  • Test what you learned
  • Further reading
• Chapter 16: C# in Action with .NET Core 3
  • Using the .NET command-line interface (CLI)
  • Developing on Linux distributions
    • Preparing the development box
    • Writing cross-platform aware code
  • What .NET Standard is and how can it help the application design
    • Creating a .NET Standard library
  • Consuming NuGet packages
    • Adding packages to a project
  • Migrating from .NET Framework to .NET Core
    • Analyzing your architecture
    • Preparing the migration process
    • Migrating the libraries
    • Migrating the tests
    • Migrating the desktop projects
    • Migrating ASP.NET projects
    • Summing up the migration steps
  • Publishing an application
    • Publishing as an FDD
    • Publishing as an SCD
    • Understanding other publishing options
  • Summary
  • Test what you learned
  • Further reading
• Chapter 17: Unit Testing
  • What is unit testing?
  • What are Microsoft tools for unit testing?
  • Creating a C# unit testing project
  • Writing unit tests
    • Analyzing code coverage
    • The anatomy of a test
  • Writing data-driven unit tests
    • Data from attributes
    • Dynamic data
    • Data from external sources
  • Summary
  • Test what you learned
• Assessments
  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2
  • Chapter 3
  • Chapter 4
  • Chapter 5
  • Chapter 6
  • Chapter 7
  • Chapter 8
  • Chapter 9
  • Chapter 10
  • Chapter 11
  • Chapter 12
  • Chapter 13
  • Chapter 14
  • Chapter 15
  • Chapter 16
  • Chapter 17
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• Index