Publisher's Synopsis
This is one of THE books that advanced .NET developers will be able to study so they can understand how they will tackle the major projects they will be asked to build in .NET in the coming years.SharpDevelop is a top-flight demonstration and case study of advanced application development using .NET today. At a time when .NET is being "proved" around the world, this book offers working knowledge of developing real-world .NET applications. Readers will learn advanced .NET programming techniques by getting an insiders' look at a complete application.SharpDevelop is a complete Integrated Development Environment, written in C#. It includes all the advanced features that programmers expect from a modern IDE and, of course, implementing these features has required some advanced programming techniques.The developers who created SharpDevelop give the reader an inside track on application development with a guided tour of the source code for SharpDevelop. They will show the reader the most important code features and explain how they can use these techniques in their own projects.;Readers will gain valuable experience of building an application on this scale, learning from the decisions, mistakes, problems and solutions that lead to the current version on SharpDevelop.Many .NET programming techniques are shown in the context of the source of the SharpDevelop application - a real piece of software that the readers can download and use for themselves. This means that there are no 'toy' examples or theory that will not work in practice - just solid, real-world code and frank discussions of how it was created.NB: This book is a new edition of the first edition. The authors have taken feedback from the first edition into account, and built a new book structure and pace, with new materials, an adjusted writing team, and essentially a new book is being released that will be a significant improvement over the Wrox title, and also up-to-date with the new release of SharpDevelop itself in late 03.This is a book for advanced programmers who will be building today and tomorrows critical computer software with .NET. Many programmers are now looking for the proof that .NET is a great tool, and they are keen to see .N;ET in action in the real world and actually have those projects explained in programmatic terms. This book is for those programmers. It will also be able to inspire other developers who are now considering whether to back .NET into the future as a major part of their application development skill set.Authors assume knowledge of .NET, C#, Reflection, XML.
