A Programmer's Introduction to C# (Second Edition). This item is unavailable.A Programmer's Introduction to C# (Second Edition)

This is the first second-generation book on C# and includes more than 100 pages of new material! Gunnerson's book is designed as a comprehensive reference for professional programmers to help get them up to speed on C#. The author is a lead developer on Microsoft's C# development team, and has logged many developer hours writing and testing C# code. As such, he is uniquely poised to teach developers the effective use of this new language. Gunnerson also explains to readers how C# fits into Microsoft's new .NET framework. A final section of the book provides a history of C#, and a language comparison to other widely used programming languages. Gunnerson's book provides a foundation upon which programmers can begin to develop in C#. New features in the 2nd ediition include coverage on developing a GUI application using Windows Forms and in-depth information on advanced topics, including threading and execution-time code generation.

Eric Gunnerson is a software design engineer in Microsoft's Visual C++ QA group and a member of the C SHARP design team. He is also the C SHARP columnist for MSDN magazine. In the course of his professional career, he has worked primarily on database products and tools and is proud of the fact that nearly half the companies he has worked for remain in business. He is also the author of the first edition of A Programmer's Introduction to C SHARP (Apress, 2000).