C# cookbook (2nd ed.)

With "C# Cookbook, 2nd Edition", you'll be able to learn and improve your mastery of both the C# language and the .NET platform.

This updated bestseller has been completely revised to account for C# 2.0, the latest version of this popular object-oriented programming language.

It also includes more than 100 new code solutions (over 300 overall) to common problems and tasks that you're sure to face as a C# programmer.

Nearly every solution, or "recipe," contains a complete, documented code sample showing you how to solve the specific problem, as well as a detailed discussion of how and why the underling technology works.

This question-solution-discussion format is a proven teaching method, as any fan of O'Reilly's "Cookbook" series can attest to.

In fact, no other source offers a learn-as-you-go format quite like this. "C# Cookbook, 2nd Edition" is organized into 20 chapters, each of which focuses on a particular topic in creating C# solutions. Here's just a taste of what's covered: numeric data types; strings and characters; classes and structures; generics; exception handling; delegates, events, and anonymous methods; filesystem interactions; web site access; XML usage (including XPath and XSLT); networking; threading; and unsafe code.

Best of all, you don't have to be an experienced C# or .NET developer to use "C# Cookbook, 2nd Edition".

You just have to be someone who wants to solve a problem now, without having to learn all the related theory first.