Ebook: .NET framework standard library annotated reference : base class library and extended numerics library
Author: Brad Abrams
- Tags: Microsoft .NET Framework.
- Series: Microsoft .NET development series
- Year: 2004
- Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
- City: Boston
- Language: English
- epub
Edited by a Lead Program Manager on Microsoft's
.NET Framework team, .NET Framework Standard Library
Annotated Reference, Volume 1, is the definitive reference
for the .NET Framework base class library. This book utilizes
extensive annotations and code samples from the creators of the
technology to move beyond the online documentation and provide .NET
developers with a dictionary-style reference to the most-used parts
of the Framework. This volume covers a subset of the ISO CLI
Standards, including the Base Class Library and the Extended
Numerics Library.
In the printed book you will find informative
overviews of each namespace covered and an easy-to-follow
alphabetic reference of types in the standard, including type-level
descriptions, sample code with output, and annotations from the
design team and standardization committee.
With the ECMA and ISO standards as its core, this
book includes:
Annotations from key members of the Microsoft design
team and the Standardization committee. Comments cover everything
from design rationale and history to common problems and
shortcomings.
An overview of each namespace, describing its
functionality and the inheritance hierarchy of types it
defines.
Type descriptions. Each type is covered in its own
chapter, with a detailed description of how the type is to be used
and a quick reference of the C# declaration syntax for all members
defined on the type. Also noted: which members are only available
in the Microsoft implementation of the .NET Framework, which are
not available in the .NET Compact Framework, and which are only
available in V1.1 of the .NET Framework.
Code samples. Types are illustrated by fully compilable
code samples with output included.
Reference tabs and an exhaustive index, which
allow readers to quickly and easily navigate the text.
Reusable source code for more than one thousand samples.
All code has been tested with versions 1.0, 1.1, and the 2.0
technical preview of the .NET Framework, and, where appropriate,
with the .NET Compact Framework.