Pro WPF in C# 2010: Windows Presentation Foundation in .NET 4 /by Matthew MacDonald (Author) .Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) provides the foundation for building applications and high-quality user experiences for the Windows operating system. It blends the application user interface, documents, and media content, while exploiting the full power of your computer's operating system. Its functionality extends to the support for Tablet PCs and other forms of input device, and it provides a more modern imaging and printing pipeline, accessibility and UI automation infrastructure, data-driven UIs and visualization, and integration points for weaving the application experience into the Windows shell. This book shows you how WPF really works. It provides you with the no-nonsense, practical advice that you need in order to build high-quality WPF applications quickly and easily. After giving you a firm foundation, it goes on to explore the more advance aspects of WPF and how they relate to the others elements of the .NET 4.0 platform and associated technologies such as Silverlight.
What you'll learn
* WPF basics: XAML, layout, control essentials, and data flow
* WPF applications: Navigation, commands, localization, and deployment
* Advanced controls: Custom controls, menus, toolbars, and trees
* WPF documents: Text layout, printing, and document packaging
* Graphics and multimedia: Drawing shapes, sound and video, animation, geometric transformations, and imaging

 

LINQ to Objects Using C# 4.0: Using and Extending LINQ to Objects and Parallel LINQ /by Troy Magennis (Author) .Using LINQ to Objects, .NET developers can write queries over object collections with the same deep functionality that was once available only with SQL and relational databases. Now, for the first time, developers have a comprehensive and authoritative guide to applying LINQ to Objects in real-world software.

Microsoft MVP Troy Magennis introduces state-of-the-art techniques for working with in-memory collections more elegantly and efficiently—and writing code that is exceptionally powerful, robust, and flexible. Drawing on his unsurpassed experience coding software using LINQ and hosting the popular HookedOnLINQ.com site, Magennis presents timely, realistic solutions to a wide spectrum of development challenges, such as combining data from multiple sources, and achieving optimal performance with extremely large sets of data.

Essential C# 4.0 (3rd Edition) /byMark Michaelis (Author) .Essential C# 4.0 is a well-organized,“no-fluff” guide to all versions of C# for programmers at all levels of C# experience. This fully updated edition shows how to make the most of C# 4.0’s new features and programming patterns to write code that is simple, yet powerful. This edition contains two new chapters on parallel programming, multi­threading, and concurrency, as well as extensive coverage of new C# 4.0 features: dynamic typing, variance, optional/named parameters, and many other new topics.
Mark Michaelis covers the C# language in depth, illustrating key constructs with succinct, downloadable code examples. Graphical “mind maps” at the beginning of each chapter show what material is covered and how individual topics interrelate. Topics intended for beginners and advanced readers are clearly marked, and the book includes indexes of C# versions (2.0, 3.0, and 4.0), which make it easy for readers to reference topics specific to a given release of C#.
Following an introduction to C#, readers learn about
*Best practices for object-oriented programming in C#
*C# primitive data types, value and reference types, implicitly typed variables, anonymous types, plus dynamic typing in C# 4.0
*Methods and parameters–including extension methods, partial meth­ods, and C# 4.0’s optional and named parameters
*Generics, concurrent collections, and custom collections with iterators
*Delegates, events, and lambda expressions
*Collection interfaces and standard query operators
*Query expressions and the tree expressions on which LINQ providers are based
*Reflection, attributes, and dynamic programming
*Parallel Query Processing with PLINQ
*Multithreaded programming with the Task Parallel Library
*Platform interoperability and unsafe code
* The Common Language Infrastructure that underlies C#

Effective C# (Covers C# 4.0): 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C#, Second Edition (2nd Edition) /by Bill Wagner (Author) .C# has matured over the past decade: It’s now a rich language with generics, functional programming concepts, and support for both static and dynamic typing. This palette of techniques provides great tools for many different idioms, but there are also many ways to make mistakes.
In Effective C#, Second Edition, respected .NET expert Bill Wagner identifies fifty ways you can leverage the full power of the C# 4.0 language to express your designs concisely and clearly. Effective C#, Second Edition, follows a clear format that makes it indispensable to hundreds of thousands of developers: clear, practical explanations, expert tips, and plenty of realistic code examples. Drawing on his unsurpassed C# experience, Wagner addresses everything from types to resource management to dynamic typing to multicore support in the C# language and the .NET framework. Along the way, he shows how to avoid common pitfalls in the C# language and the .NET environment. You’ll learn how to
* Use both types of C# constants for efficiency and maintainability (see Item 2)
* Employ immutable data types to promote multicore processing (see Item 20)
* Minimize garbage collection, boxing, and unboxing (see Items 16 and 45)
* Take full advantage of interfaces and delegates (see Items 22 though 25)
* Make the most of the parallel framework (see Items 35 through 37)
* Use duck typing in C# (see Item 38)
* Spot the advantages of the dynamic and Expression types over reflection (see Items 42 and 43)
* Assess why query expressions are better than loops (see Item 8)
* Understand how generic covariance and contravariance affect your designs (see Item 29)
* See how optional parameters can minimize the number of method overloads (see Item 10)

Microsoft Visual C# 2010 Step by Step /by John Sharp (Author).Teach yourself Visual C# 2010-one step at a time. Ideal for developers with fundamental programming skills, this practical tutorial features learn-by-doing exercises that demonstrate how, when, and why to use the features of the C# rapid application development environment.

You'll learn how to use Microsoft Visual Studio® 2010 and Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0; develop a solid, fundamental understanding of C# language features; and then get to work creating actual components and working applications for the Windows® operating system. You'll also delve into data management technologies and Web-based applications.