A Programmer's Introduction to C#, Second Edition is designed as a comprehensive reference to the C# language and is designed to help experienced programmers get up-to-speed on C#. Author Eric Gunnerson is a developer on Microsoft's C# design team and has logged many hours writing and testing C# code. As such, he is uniquely poised to teach developers the effective use of this new language. Gunnerson also explains to readers how C# fits into Microsoft's new .NET framework. Gunnerson provides the foundation to let experienced programmers begin to develop in C#. Among the core topics covered are everything from C# basic statements and flow of execution, to classes, structs, interfaces, expressions, arrays, enums, delegates and events, exception handling, interoperability, and more! The final section of the book provides a history of C#, and a language comparison to other widely used programming languages. New features in this edition include coverage of how to develop a GUI application using Windows Forms and in-depth information on advanced topics such as threading and execution-time code generation.

Author Biography: Eric Gunnerson - Eric Gunnerson is a software design engineer in Microsoft's Visual C++ QA group and a member of the C# design team. In his professional career, he has worked primarily on database products and tools, and is proud that nearly half the companies he has worked for remain in business.