C# Track Summary

Story, Bites, and Repositories

Bite Index

TBD

Coming eventually

Story Index

TBD

Coming eventually

Figure 1. C# demo code

"If you're too busy to learn, you won't be busy for very long."
- Anonymous

C# hasn't gotten much attention here - there are only C# code repositories so far. That will change eventually. So this page is focused on pointing to the C# repositories and leaving placeholders for a Story and Bites in the upper right corner.

The C# language is a memory safe managed language that compiles to bite code (MSIL) and runs in a virtual machine (CLR) loaded into its process at startup. Bite code is "jitted" by the CLR to native code at runtime.

Table 1. C# Resources from this site

Resource	Contents
C# Repositories	Index of all the C# code repositories
C# Story	Coming eventually
C# Bites	Coming eventually
Bits of Code	Compares small C++, Rust, and C# codes
OnLine C# Compiler	dotnetfiddle

C# has a close relationship with the .Net framework that wraps the CLR and supplies its language libraries. The C# compiler and .Net framework were developed to run in Windows, but have been ported to Linux and MacOS, so they operate in all the common platforms.

It is a favored language for developing applications for the Azure cloud environment and has a large community, both inside and outside Microsoft, working on applications, frameworks, and services that work well locally and in the Azure environment.

Table 2. - C# Code Examples

Topic	Content
C# Repositories	Index into C# code Repositories
C# Code examples	C# Basic Demos, CsParser, Diff_WPF
online code execution	dotnetfiddle, tutorialspoint, CSharpPad

After writing your first few programs, it is likely that resources in Table 3. will speed up your progress understanding and using C#. The table contains intermediate to advanced materials written in plain language.

Table 3. - Other Resources

Topic	Content
Tooling	Using Visual Studio Code to create and build C++, Rust, and C# code
dotnet CLI	See Tooling, Section #3, for an introduction to use. Works on Windows, Linux, and MacOS.
Visual Studio Community Edition	Download Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment. It's large and configurable. Visual Studio is the default environment for developing C# code.
Visual Studio Help Slides (VS2017), Visual Studio Help (VS2012)	These presentations are for earlier versions of Visual Studio, but they are still fairly accurate, except for VS2012 screenshots.
Intermediate and advanced resources from Microsoft
docs.microsoft.com	Introduction to C# tutorial , C# documentation, C# Reference
C# Coding Conventions	Guidelines for crafting C# code, from the source