Part 6: C-specific features

Introduction

This part covers C# features which are quite specific to C# and not found in Java. Most have been inherited from C++ and make C# a powerful language. Chapters 28 and 29 cover two topics usually classified as 'advanced C#'. It will be a good idea to read Chapter 28 after Chapter 27.

Unlike the core topics covered in Part 4, the Java developer will find the topics here rather foreign. I have illustrated the chapters with lots of code examples so that they can be understood more easily.

The chapters in this part are:

¢ Chapter 24: C# preprocessor directives

¢ Chapter 25: Using enums

¢ Chapter 26: C# structures

¢ Chapter 27: C# attributes

¢ Chapter 28: Writing custom attributes

¢ Chapter 29: Writing unsafe codes.