I haven??™t been using it professionally for all that
time??”I??™ve been flitting back and forth between C# and Java, depending on what my
employers wanted for the projects I was working on. However, I??™ve never let my interest
in it drop, posting on the newsgroups and developing code at home. Although I
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didn??™t start using C#2 until Visual Studio 2005 was close to release, I??™ve tracked C#3
more closely.
While watching the gradual emergence of C#3, I??™ve also been watching the developer
reaction to C#2??”and I think people are missing out. The adoption rate of C#2
has been quite slow for various reasons, but where it is being used, I believe its full
potential isn??™t being realized. I want to fix that.
The proposal I made to Manning was narrow in focus, but deep in scope. My mission
is a simple one: to take existing C#1 developers and turn them into confident
and competent C#2 and 3 developers who understand the language at a deep level. At
the time of this writing, I don??™t know of any other books that have a similar explicit
aim. I??™m immensely grateful to Manning for allowing me to write the book I really
wanted to, without interfering and forcing it down a more conventional path. At the
same time, the folks at Manning expertly guided the book and made it much more
useful than it would have been otherwise.
I tried to write the book that I would want to read when learning C#2 and 3.
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