What do you need when you are coding in C#? If your answer is easily understood recipes for code that does something, then this is the book for you! You probably already have a handle on the basics of .NET programming and are in need of some shortcuts to make your job easier. How about 350 code recipes! The Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003 Developer's Cookbook provides a practical reference for various programming tasks. Each chapter consists of a brief description of the topic at hand and then gives you the goods - recipes that explain a brief description of the task, the technique and comments about the technique chosen by C# experts, Mark Schmidt and Simon Robinson.
When Visual C# .NET first arrived on the scene, developers everywhere were hit with a vast wave of documentation and tutorials from magazine articles, books, and Web sites. The obligatory "Hello World" programs were popping up left and right as developers began their path to understanding this new language created by Microsoft. Those days of learning this exciting new technology are now gone for some developers, and they now need more in-depth material—material that corresponds to the tasks you need to accomplish while developing your application. Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003 Developer's Cookbook will help you make that transition from learning to doing.
Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003 Developer's Cookbook is divided into parts corresponding to the technology within Visual C# .NET. These parts each contain several different recipes to help you understand a single task without having to read several pages of introductory material. Each recipe is carefully constructed to first show you how to accomplish a task using a certain technique and then to follow with comments that provide a closer inspection of the solution.