Part 2. C# 2: Solving the issues of C# 1
In part 1 we took a quick look at a few of the features of C# 2. Now it’s time to do the job properly. You’ll see how C# 2 fixes various problems that developers ran into when using C# 1, and how C# 2 makes existing features more useful by streamlining them. This is no mean feat, and life with C# 2 is much more pleasant than with C# 1.
The new features in C# 2 have a certain amount of independence. That’s not to say they’re not related at all; many of the features are based on—or at least interact with—the massive contribution that generics make to the language. But the different topics we’ll look at in the next five chapters don’t combine into one super-feature.
The first four chapters of this part ...
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