The C# Programming Language

The C# project started almost five years ago, in December 1998, with the goal to create a simple, modern, object-oriented, and type-safe programming language for the new and yet to be named .NET platform. Since then, C# has come a long way. The language is now in use by hundreds of thousands of programmers, it has been standardized by both ECMA and ISO/IEC, and the development of a second version of the language with several major new features is close to completion.
This book is a complete technical specification of the C# programming language. The book is divided into three parts. Part I, "C# 1.0," includes Chapters 1–18 and describes the C# 1.0 language, as delivered in Visual Studio .NET 2002 and 2003. Part II, "C# 2.0," includes Chapters 19–23 and describes the four major new features of C# 2.0: generics, anonymous methods, iterators, and partial types. Part III, "Appendixes," describes documentation comments and summarizes the lexical and syntactic grammars found in Part I of the book. As of this writing, C# 2.0 is close to entering beta testing. Because C# 2.0 is still a work in progress, some of the new features described in the second part of the book might change in the final release. We do, however, expect any such changes to be minor.

- Authors: Anders Hejlsberg, Scott Wiltamuth, and Peter Golde

- Publisher: Addison Wesley
- Published: 2003-10-29
- Language: English
- Format: CHM
- ISBN: 0-321-15491-6
- Pages: 672
- Size: 686 KB
- Link: C-Sharp Programming Language