Paul J. Deitel - C# 2012 for Programmers

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To our review team

Shay Friedman
Octavio Hernandez
Stephen Hustedde
Jos Antonio Gonzlez Seco
Shawn Weisfeld

We are grateful for your guidance and expertise.

Paul and Harvey Deitel

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Welcome to Visual C# 2012 and the world of Microsoft Windows and Internet and web programming with Microsofts .NET platform. Please read the books back cover and inside back coverthese concisely capture the books essence. In this Preface we provide more details.

We focus on software engineering best practices. At the heart of the book is the Deitel signature live-code approachconcepts are presented in the context of complete working programs, rather than in code snippets. Each complete code example is accompanied by live sample executions. All the source code is available at

www.deitel.com/books/cs2012fp/

If you have questions as you read the book, were easy to reach at ).