C# Programming Guide

This page is specific to

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008/.NET Framework 3.5

Other versions are also available for the following:

This section provides detailed information on key C# language features and features accessible to C# through the .NET Framework.

Most of this section assumes that you already know something about C# and general programming concepts. If you are a complete beginner with programming or with C#, you should start with the Visual C# Guided Tour. You also might want to visit the C# Developer Center, where you can find many tutorials, samples and videos to help you get started.

For information about specific keywords, operators and preprocessor directives, see C# Reference. For information about the C# Language Specification, see C# Language Specification.

Language Sections

Inside a C# Program

Main() and Command-Line Arguments (C# Programming Guide)

Types (C# Programming Guide)

Arrays (C# Programming Guide)

Strings (C# Programming Guide)

Statements, Expressions, and Operators (C# Programming Guide)

Classes and Structs (C# Programming Guide)

Properties (C# Programming Guide)

Indexers (C# Programming Guide)

Delegates (C# Programming Guide)

Events (C# Programming Guide)

Generics (C# Programming Guide)

LINQ Query Expressions (C# Programming Guide)

Lambda Expressions (C# Programming Guide)

Iterators (C# Programming Guide)

Namespaces (C# Programming Guide)

Nullable Types (C# Programming Guide)

Unsafe Code and Pointers (C# Programming Guide)

XML Documentation Comments (C# Programming Guide)

Platform Sections

Application Domains (C# Programming Guide)

Assemblies and the Global Assembly Cache (C# Programming Guide)

Attributes (C# Programming Guide)

Collection Classes (C# Programming Guide)

Exceptions and Exception Handling (C# Programming Guide)

Interoperability (C# Programming Guide)

Threading (C# Programming Guide)

Performance (C# Programming Guide)

Reflection (C# Programming Guide)

C# DLLs (C# Programming Guide)

Security (C# Programming Guide)

Other Resources

C# Reference

Visual C#

Visual C# Guided Tour

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C# Cross Plaform programming

kunaldeo ... MSSQL SUPPORTER | Edit | Show History

Popular Open Source project mono (www.go-mono.com) provides an easy way to write true cross platform applications using Mono software on Linux and Other UNIX like operating systems. Mono is an Open Source implementation for Micorsoft C# and dot Net EMEA specification.

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Mono Is Great but...

Thomas Lee | Edit | Show History

Mono, as noted in kunaldeo's comment above is an excellent platform, enabling a degree of cross-platform programming. However, it's very much playing catch-up with .NET,with some (many?) classes missing. I'ts outstanding for simpler things, but if you are doing SilverLight/WCF/WF apps, you may find Mono too deficient.

In summary, it's a good but not complete.

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