Instant .NET 4.5 Extension Methods How-to

Utilize and harness the power of extension methods in your .NET applications

Key Features

• Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results.
• Explains how to write your own extension methods on types ranging from primitive to complex
• Shows caveats to watch out for and apply workarounds to them
• Helps to better architect your applications to maximize code maintainability

Book Description

What you will learn

• Extending primitive and complex types
• Tricks and caveats of extending the string data type
• Method chaining using extension methods
• Extending interfaces while taking inheritance into consideration
• Structuring your project to incorporate proper namespace convention when using extension methods
• Knowing how and when to extend IEnumerable versus IQueryable for performance and optimization of queries
• Structuring your project to incorporate proper namespace convention when using extension methods

Who this book is for

This book is for developers in C# and the .NET framework, with a basic understanding of language syntax and OOP concepts. Readers are expected to have some experience in finding their way around Visual Studio.