This book presents .Net from a Delphi programmer's viewpoint. It presents the core concepts of the .Net world in terms of the concepts a Delphi programmer is already familiar with. It is designed to help today's Delphi programmers not only adopt to Delphi for .NET, but also to C# if that is their preference.

It is best to consider the book as the Delphi equivalent of a migration book. We already have migration books for VB6 programmers moving to .NET, and C++ programmers moving to .NET. This book is for Delphi programmers moving to .NET

Autorentext
Jon Shemitz has been programming since he was 12, when he learned Focal on a PDP-8, and has been programming professionally since he graduated from Yale University in 1981. He's been using Borland's Pascal since Turbo Pascal 1.0. He's written several magazine articles and several book chapters. He also authored KYLIX: The Professional Developer's Guide and Reference. Learn more about Jon at MidnightBeach.com.

Klappentext

• Good coverage of C# as well as Delphi for .NET. * Not a port of a Delphi book - tightly focused on what's new which includes the FCL overview that you need to make sense of the Microsoft documentation.

• Particularly clear and well-written.

Zusammenfassung

.NET 2.0 for Delphi Programmers explores .NET from a Delphi programmers viewpoint, and it is ideal for Delphi programmers moving to .NET. It presents the core concepts of the .NET world in terms you are familiar with. This book will help you with Delphi for .NET as well as C#.

Apress publishes migration books for both Visual Basic 6 and C++ programmers moving to .NET. Consider this the Delphi installment of Apress migration books! There is ample coverage of C# as well as Delphi for .NET inside this edition.

Inhalt
Common Language Runtime.- Managed Code.- The Object Model.- Garbage Collection.- JIT and CIL.- C# and Delphi.- C# Primitive Types.- C# Control Structures.- C# Objects.- C# Interfaces and Delegates.- C# Topics.- Delphi for .NET.- The Framework Class Library.- Strings and Files.- Collections.- Reflection.- Serialization and Remoting.- WinForms Basics.- Graphics.- Threads and Synchronization.- XML.