Microsoft, Microsoft Visual Basic, Visual C#, Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual C# Developers 

Get the real-world coding guidelines, expert tips, and rock-solid guidance you need to take your development expertise to the next level. Drawing on their extensive programming and consulting experience, respected developers Francesco Balena and Giuseppe Dimauro share more than 700 programming best practices for Visual Basic and Visual C#. For each rule the authors explain the purpose, illuminate their whys and why-nots, highlight exceptions and alternatives, and provide real-world code samples.

Use the practical, reliable techniques in this book to:

Take full advantage of the Microsoft .NET Framework—and write reusable, robust, and security-enhanced code
Build software solutions that are both efficient and scalable
Implement rational and easy-to-use class libraries and object hierarchies
Adopt coherent coding styles and techniques to increase team productivity
Extend your programming expertise, problem-solving skills, and creativity!

Find best practices for working with:

assemblies
resources and localization
types and structures
fields
properties
methods *constructors
events
interfaces
exception handling
custom attributes
numbers and dates
strings
array and collection types
memory usage and object finalization
Windows Forms applications
Microsoft ADO.NET
Microsoft ASP.NET Web Forms and Web services applications
threading and synchronization
PInvoke and COM Interop
serviced components
remoting
security considerations
and more

Get code samples for Visual Basic and C# on the Web: For information on code samples and system requirements, please see Appendix C.