.net 4.0 Generics Beginner's Guide: Enhance the Type Safety of Your Code and Create Applications Easily Using Generics in the .net Framework 4.0 - Brossura

Mukherjee, Sudipta

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1849690782 ISBN 13: 9781849690782

Casa editrice: Packt Pub Ltd, 2011

Riassunto

Generics were added as part of .NET Framework 2.0 in November 2005. Although similar to generics in Java, .NET generics do not apply type erasure but every object has unique representation at run-time. There is no performance hit from runtime casts and boxing conversions, which are normally expensive..NET offers type-safe versions of every classical data structure and some hybrid ones.

This book will show you everything you need to start writing type-safe applications using generic data structures available in Generics API. You will also see how you can use several collections for each task you perform. This book is full of practical examples, interesting applications, and comparisons between Generics and more traditional approaches. Finally, each container is bench marked on the basis of performance for a given task, so you know which one to use and when.

This book first covers the fundamental concepts such as type safety, Generic Methods, and Generic Containers. As the book progresses, you will learn how to join several generic containers to achieve your goals and query them efficiently using Linq. There are short exercises in every chapter to boost your knowledge.

The book also teaches you some best practices, and several patterns that are commonly available in generic code.

Some important generic algorithm definitions are present in Power Collection (an API created by Wintellect Inc.) that are missing from .NET framework. This book shows you how to use such algorithms seamlessly with other generic containers.

The book also discusses C5 collections. Java Programmers will find themselves at home with this API. This is the closest to JCF. Some very interesting problems are solved using generic containers from .NET framework, C5, and PowerCollection Algorithms – a clone of Google Set and Gender Genie for example!

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Contenuti

Preface
Chapter 1: Why Generics?
Chapter 2: Lists
Chapter 3: Dictionaries
Chapter 4: LINQ to Objects
Chapter 5: Observable Collections
Chapter 6: Concurrent Collections
Chapter 7: Power Collections
Chapter 8: C5 Collections
Chapter 9: Patterns, Practices, and Performance
Appendix A: Performance Cheat Sheet
Appendix B: Migration Cheat Sheet
Appendix C: Pop Quiz Answers
Index

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Packt Pub Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1849690782
• ISBN 13: 9781849690782
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 396
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile