Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform

We’re a Team, You and I Technology authors write for a demanding group of people (I should know—I’m one of them). You know that building software solutions using any platform (e. g. , . NET, Java, and COM) is extremely complicated and is highly specific to your department, company, client base, and subject matter. Perhaps you work in the electronic publishing industry, develop systems for the state or local government, or work at NASA or a branch of the military. Speaking for myself, I have developed children’s educational software (Oregon Trail / Amazon Trail anyone?), various n-tier systems, and projects within the medical and financial industries. The chances are almost 100 percent that the code you write at your place of employment has little to do with the code I write at mine (unless we happened to work together previously!). Therefore, in this book, I have deliberately chosen to avoid creating examples that tie the example code to a specific industry or vein of programming. Given this, I explain C#, OOP, the CLR, and the . NET 4. 0 base class libraries using industry-agnostic examples. Rather than having every blessed example fill a grid with data, calculate payroll, or whatnot, I’ll stick to subject matter everyone can relate to: automobiles (with some geometric structures and employee payroll systems thrown in for good measure). And that’s where you come in. My job is to explain the C# programming language and the core aspects of the .