Entirely revised and updated for the Golden Release of .NET, Professional C# 2nd Edition is the ideal introduction to the C# language and the .NET Framework, and will become an indispensable companion for any user of C# and .NET.

Offering an unparalleled breadth and depth of coverage, this book provides the information that you need to learn the key concepts of the C# language, and then takes you on to a complete exploration of programming the .NET Framework with C#, so that you are ready to develop powerful C# applications in the .NET environment.
Topics covered include:

How to program in the object-oriented C# language

Writing Windows applications and Windows services

Writing web pages and web services with ASP.NET

Manipulating XML using C#

Understanding .NET Assemblies

Using ADO.NET to access databases

Integration with COM, COM+, and Active Directory

Distributed applications with .NET Remoting

Generating graphics, and printing documents using C#

Accessing the Internet with C#, and network programming

Handling files and the Registry, and controlling .NET security

Synopsis
The C# language and its associated environment, the .NET Framework, is one of the most important new technologies for developers for many years. .NET is designed to provide a new environment within which you can develop almost any application to run on Windows, while C# is a programming language that has been designed specifically to work with .NET. In this title, all the key concepts of the C# language and the .NET Framework are introduced. As well as full coverage of C# syntax, there are examples of building all types of applications using C# - Windows applications and Windows services, web applications and web services with ASP.NET, and Windows and web controls. There is also full discussion of the most important .NET class libraries, such as data access with ADO.NET, the .NET XML class libraries, and .NET Remoting.

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