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Simple explanations for .NET concepts

This site is a place for me to record my understanding of .NET, C# and related technologies. My hope is that it will also serve as a useful learning resources for anyone who was in the same position as me — interested in .NET as a general concept but confused by unfamiliar names, project types and terminology.

My goal is to give you the 'eureka moment' needed to appreciate more detailed resources, like the MSDN or a Manning Press book. I try to write as directly and clearly as possible. If you read a page and think 'well, that’s pretty simple, why did he feel the need to explain that?' — I’m happy.

This page isn’t a programming tutorial, so I won’t explain fundamental concepts like variables or for-loops.

Topics

• C#

  • Interfaces

  • Generics [incomplete]

  • The 'static' keyword [99% complete]

  • Delegates

  • Func<> and Action<>

  • Lambdas

  • Events

  • Async/await [99% complete]

  • Properties

  • LINQ

• .NET project types

  • Desktop [incomplete]

  • Web [incomplete]

• The .NET runtime

  • How your source code turns into a program [incomplete]

  • Reference types and value types

  • The garbage collector

• The developer experience

  • MSBuild

  • A tour of Visual Studio [incomplete]

• .NET as a concept

  • The difference between .NET Framework, .NET Core, .NET 5/6 [incomplete]

  • The history of .NET

• Common .NET programming patterns

  • Logging

  • Unit testing

  • Dependency injection

Who is responsible for this?

My name is Jack Kendall. You can contact me through the GitHub page for this site. Feel free to make pull requests for any improvements (especially factual errors!).

Credits and thanks

• Github Pages for hosting this site.

• Microsoft for developing .NET.