How This Book Is Different
This book was written by programmers for programmers, and hence you will find the book to be light on description and heavy on code. You will note a preponderance of complete code samples to illustrate C# concepts, constructs, syntax, and philosophies. Where possible, we provide Java listings. The code listings are fairly nontrivial at times, and we have tried to explain concepts by walking through code. This approach is similar to some of the Java open source project tutorials out there.
As a Java programmer you will notice that we look at Java quirks and idioms to explore whether they also exist in C#. We have also examined some features of C# to discover why they don't exist in Java and why they are designed differently in C#. In places, we give coding practices in Java that are rendered redundant in C#. For example, using the + operator to concatenate strings and create large strings has been heavily denounced in the Java world, but it is not necessarily a bad thing in C#.
We have given each chapter its unique set of code listings instead of building one massive application throughout the book. Note, too, that the book focuses on discussing the C# language and not the associated tools that come with the .NET development environment.
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