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Time to start C# familiarisation, this long weekend is the weekend to start. My guide is the book: “Pro C# 2008 and the .Net 3.5 Platform†written by Andrew Troelson
Having last been semi-professional in Java about 10 years ago, there are many similarities. But lots of new platform learnings. Unix shell, paths and commands are difficult things to dump.
Just ensuring I understand the fundamentals before I jump into the deep end of the BCL and other .Net goodness
So, some new things:
- using the Visual Studio Command Prompt to pre-setup paths
- @*.rsp files for input to csc.exe (to replace command lines)
- Console.* and Environment.* for command-line/console style apps; along with return values
- Escape characters vs. @â€sss†verbatim strings
- Narrowing/Widening datatypes at compile time (short/ints)
- out, ref, params (leave params as last argument)
- operator overloading (sans generics), arrays, simple objects, enums’
- structs on the stack, vs referenced types on heap
- Nullable types (using ? at the end of the type declaration, ?? as default override if value is null)
- Objects, default constructors
- constructor chaining using this. keyword
- Encapsulation using properties (auto getters and setters, or Accessors and Mutators)
- partials (one class across multiple *.cs files)
- class diagrams; same 3 base things of OO programming (encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism)
- base class construction
- nested classes
- virtual, override in polymorphism; as keyword + null test in polymorphism
- SEH. Structured exception handling
- The heap, generations as a method of marking objects as “more likely to stick around†in System.GC
- Finalize. Finalize when unmanaged (ie: Pinvoke) objects
- Dispose. call Dispose on an object that implements IDisposable (if x is IDisposable…)
New feature of Visual Studio 2008, LOLCAT edition. CATROSPECSHUN OV UR CLASSEZ
