.NET Gotchas 75 Ways to Improve Your C and VB.NET Programs [Paperback]

Like most complex tasks, .NET programming is fraught with potential costly, and time-consuming hazards. The millions of Microsoft developers worldwide who create applications for the .NET platform can attest to that. Thankfully there's now a book that shows you how to avoid such costly and time-consuming mistakes. It's called.NET Gotchas.The ultimate guide for efficient, pain-free coding,.NET Gotchasfrom O'Reilly contains 75 common .NET programming pitfalls--and advice on how to work around them. It will help you steer away from those mistakes that cause application performance problems, or so taint code that it just doesn't work right.The book is organized into nine chapters, each focusing on those features and constructs of the .NET platform that consistently baffle developers. Within each chapter are several gotchas, with detailed examples, discussions, and guidelines for avoiding them. No doubt about it, when applied, these concise presentations of best practices will help you lead a more productive, stress-free existence.What's more, because code examples are written in both VB.NET and C#,.NET Gotchasis of interest to more than 75 percent of the growing numbers of .NET programmers. So if you're a .NET developer who's mired in the trenches and yearning for a better way, this book is most definitely for you.

DedicationPrefaceChapter 1: CLR/Framework GotchasChapter 2: Visual Studio and Compiler GotchasChapter 3: Language and API GotchasChapter 4: Language Interoperability GotchasChapter 5: Garbage Collection GotchasChapter 6: Inheritance and Polymorphism GotchasChapter 7: Multithreading GotchasChapter 8: COM-Interop and Enterprise Services GotchasResourcesColophon