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 Collect ion

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: 1/0 -Bound Asynchronous Operations

Chapter 29: Primitive Thread Synchronization Constructs

Chapter 30: Hybrid Thread Synchronization Constructs

About the Author

Jeffrey Richter is a cofounder of Wintellect (www.wintellect.com), a training, consulting, and debugging firm dedicated to helping companies build better software faster. In addition to this book’s previous editions, he’s written several other popular programming titles. He has been a consultant to the Microsoft .NET Framework Team since 1999.