More Effective C#: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C#

By W.A. Light and M. Ainsworth

In More Effective C#, Second Edition, world-renowned .NET expert Bill Wagner identifies and illuminates 50 intermediate-to-advanced techniques for writing exceptionally robust and well-performing C# 7.0 code. Reflecting the growing sophistication of the C# language and its development community, Wagner presents powerful new solutions to problems you're likely to encounter every day.

Through three editions of Effective C#, Wagner's clear explanations, expert tips, and realistic code examples have proven invaluable to hundreds of thousands of developers. With the publication of this title, Effective C#, Third Edition, and More Effective C#, Second Edition, have been completely reorganized to provide clear explanations, expert tips, and realistic code examples in a cohesive package for modern C#. More Effective C#, Second Edition, brings the same proven approach to the new features in C# 7.0, helping you perform familiar tasks more efficiently and effectively.

Drawing on his unsurpassed C# experience and key role on global C# standards committees, Wagner addresses object-oriented, functional, and service-oriented approaches to managing data with C#; better ways to express your intent to users and other programmers; and new opportunities to leverage powerful asynchronous and dynamic programming techniques.

Use properties instead of accessible data members (Item 1) Distinguish between value and reference types (Item 4) Understand relationships among multiple concepts of equality (Item 9) Avoid conversion operators in your APIs (Item 11) Understand how interface and virtual methods differ (Item 15) Avoid overloading methods defined in base classes (Item 19) Create method groups that are clear, minimal, and complete (Item 22) Enable immediate error reporting in iterators and async methods (Item 26) Use async methods for async work (Item 27) Avoid thread allocations and context switches (Item 30) Construct PLINQ parallel algorithms with exceptions in mind (Item 36) Use the thread pool instead of creating threads (Item 37) Use BackgroundWorker for cross-thread communication (Item 38) Use the smallest possible scope for lock handles (Item 41) Understand the pros and cons of dynamic programming (Item 43) Make full use of the expression API (Item 46) Minimize dynamic objects in public APIs (Item 47)

You're already a successful C# programmer: this book will make you an outstanding one.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0672337886
• ISBN13: 9780672337888
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent book

As said before, this book isn't for begginers, this book isn't meant to be your first book in C# arena. But I think intermediate level of C# is enough to fully understand what's going on here. It's a must have for API designers and highly recommended for those who want to empower their skills of C#. The book covers topics like generics, threads, LINQ, magic yield keyword etc. Eg. it gives you some hint in uncertain situations...

A must read for C# developers

Anyone who is writing C# on a daily basis has to read this book. In 50 very easy to read short modules, Bill shows you how to improve your C# code. I have been coding with C# since 2002 and I learned many new techniques about Generics and the new language features from 3.0. With LINQ, I *finally* know why an implicitly typed local variable is better and the implications of not using IQueryable. A wealth of knowledge. After...

A book of magic tricks

I've been waiting on this book for ages. Mr. Wagner's original "Effective C#" was a revelation to me. He raised questions I never thought to ask myself about why we do things certain ways in C# rather than others, and then provided insights into what the stakes were. Reading "Effective C#" basically taught me to take programming seriously. I learned to always question my own decisions and to look for better ways to do...

Another great book by Bill Wagner

"More Effective C#" continues in the same style as Bill's first book, "Effective C#": short, concise articles around a specific topic you'll need to pay attention to when figuring out how to write the best C# code you possibly can. Bill starts off with a deep dive into Generics and some of the many subtleties you need to consider. He points out things like considering how you write generic code in base classes, genericized...

Still Great. Still Essential!

I really found Bill's previous book (Effective C#: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C# (Effective Software Development Series)) very useful. I've recommended in many classes I've taught and also to clients while consulting. More Effective C# enhances the original with C# 3.0 and LINQ additions. Bottom line: If you want to be a serious developer that continually hones his (or her) craft, then you need this book. Bill has...