Practical Guidelines and Best Practices for Microsoft® Visual Basic® and Visual C#® Developers - Softcover

Balena, Francesco; Dimauro, Giuseppe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0735621721 ISBN 13: 9780735621725

Publisher: Microsoft Press, 2005

Synopsis

Get the real-world coding guidelines, expert tips, and rock-solid guidance you need to take your development expertise to the next level. Drawing on their extensive programming and consulting experience, respected developers Francesco Balena and Giuseppe Dimauro share more than 700 programming best practices for Visual Basic and Visual C#. For each rule the authors explain the purpose, illuminate their whys and why-nots, highlight exceptions and alternatives, and provide real-world code samples.

Use the practical, reliable techniques in this book to:

Take full advantage of the Microsoft .NET Framework—and write reusable, robust, and security-enhanced code Build software solutions that are both efficient and scalable Implement rational and easy-to-use class libraries and object hierarchies Adopt coherent coding styles and techniques to increase team productivity Extend your programming expertise, problem-solving skills, and creativity!

Find best practices for working with:

assemblies resources and localization types and structures fields properties methods *constructors events interfaces exception handling custom attributes numbers and dates strings array and collection types memory usage and object finalization Windows Forms applications Microsoft ADO.NET Microsoft ASP.NET Web Forms and Web services applications threading and synchronization PInvoke and COM Interop serviced components remoting security considerations and more

Get code samples for Visual Basic and C# on the Web: For information on code samples and system requirements, please see Appendix C.

About this title

About the Author

Francesco Balena is the author of Programming Microsoft Visual Basic 6, Programming Microsoft Visual Basic .NET, and Programming Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Version 2003 and coauthor of Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (with Jeffrey Richter), all from Microsoft Press. He is an MSDN Regional Directory for Italy; a regular speaker at US and European conferences such as VSLive!, WinDev, DevWeeks, WinSummit, and DevDays; a contributing editor of Visual Studio Magazine; and a cofounder of Code Architects Srl.

Giuseppe Dimauro is an MSDN Regional Director for Italy and a regular speaker at Italian conferences such as Windows Professional Conferences, DevDays, and other MSDN events. He teaches and consults for Microsoft Italy on technologies such as COM+, Microsoft SQL Server™, and Microsoft Exchange Server.

Edition details

• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0735621721
• ISBN 13: 9780735621725
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 608