Introduction

Welcome to C#, today's premiere programming language for the .NET platform, and the most exciting one. We're going to push the C# envelope in this book, working from the ground floor up through the advanced levels. This book has been designed to open up C# and make it more accessible than any other book can.

This is a programmer-to-programmer book, written to bring you up to speed in C# by giving you what you need without wasting time. Because this discussion is targeted to programmers, we're going to skip the in-depth explanations of elementary programming constructs like variables that you'd skip anyway. If you're a programmer, this book is written to give you exactly what you want to see when moving to C#—the good stuff, and only ...

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