Sams Teach Yourself Visual C#® 2010 in 24 Hours

Foreword

Over a decade ago, a small team of designers met in a small conference room on the second floor of Building 41 at Microsoft to create a brand-new language, C#. The guiding principles of the language emphasized simplicity, familiarity, safety, and practicality. Of course, all those principles needed to balance against one another; none are absolutes. The designers wanted the language to be simple to understand but not simplistic, familiar to C++ and Java programmers but not a slavish copy of either, safe by default but not too restrictive, and practical but never abandoning a disciplined, consistent, and theoretically valid design.

After many, many months of thought, design, development, testing, and documentation, C# 1.0 was delivered ...