C#

• Classes in C#
• Oct 21, 2015

This chapter from Essential C# 6.0, 5th Edition introduces the basics of object-oriented programming using C#. A key focus is on how to define classes, which are the templates for objects themselves.

• Using Static Methods and 'Better Betterness' in C# 6
• Sep 7, 2015

Concluding his series on new and improved features in C# 6, Bill Wagner, author of Effective C#: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C#, Second Edition, discusses new syntax for static methods that will really de-clutter your code, along with improved overload resolution that reduces ambiguity by helping the compiler to make better method-overload choices.

• Await, Catch, and Finally in C# 6
• Aug 31, 2015

Did you think await was allowed everywhere in earlier versions of C#? You're not alone. Now that the keyword is available in catch and finally clauses, Bill Wagner, author of Effective C#: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C#, Second Edition, shows how to use the advantages await offers in exception-processing scenarios.

• New Ways to Initialize Collections in C# 6
• Aug 24, 2015

Bill Wagner, author of Effective C#: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C#, Second Edition, shares the details of two enhancements in C# 6 for initializing collections, which read more naturally and bring associative containers into parity with sequence containers' initialization syntax.