... Chapter 1: Introducing C# and NET ■ In addition to being syntactically familiar, C# is strongly typed, architecturally neutral, portable, safe, and multi-threaded Type security in C# is supported ... makes C# portable and independent of its running environment C# is also safe It controls access to hardware and memory resources, checks classes at runtime, and does not allow the implicit usage and ... development environment (IDE) that standardizes support for many programming languages, including C#, J#, C++, and Visual Basic After the standardization of the C# and CLI specifications in December...