Articles

Sometimes there just hasn't been enough room in the book to include all the information relevant to a topic. Extra information is collected here, and organized by the chapter in which it would have appeared if it had made it into the book. Items that aren't hyperlinks are articles I'm planning to write - please mail me if there's something you'd like to see which isn't currently in the list.

General

• Bluffer's guide to C# 2
• Bluffer's guide to C# 3

Chapter 1 (introduction)

• Versions - more information on the difference between versions of C#, the framework, and Visual Studio, including which parts of C# 3 are available when running Visual Studio 2008 and targeting .NET 2.0.

Chapter 3 (generics)

• XML documentation comments referring to generic types/methods
• Guidance around use of generic collection types in APIs

Chapter 5 (delegates)

• Closures - why they're important, and what they look like in C# and Java

Chapter 6 (iterators)

• Iterator block implementation details - what the C# compiler does to build auto-generated state machines for us

Chapter 8 (simple C# 3 features)

• Why properties matter - and why you should (almost) never make fields non-private

Chapter 11 (LINQ to Objects)

• Iterators, iterator blocks and data pipelines