Section 1. What is C#?

The history of C#

Microsoft C#

Orignal name: "C-like Object Oriented Language"
Announsed at July 2000 Microsoft Professional Developers Conference along with the .NET Framework
Mono is the open-source competitor to C#

C#'s Original Specification Document

Intended to be a simple, modern, general-purpose, object-oriented language
Support software engineering principles:
- strong type checking
- array bounds checking
- detection of attempts to use uninitialized variables
- auto garbage collection
Suitable for deployment in distributed environments
High portability (Software can be compiled and linked from source code for different operating systems and processors)
Suitable for writing applications for both hosted (large OS) and embedded systems (small functions)
C# has low memory and processing power consumption, but not good as C or assembly

.NET Framework