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diff --git a/CSHARP-README.txt b/CSHARP-README.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 11502f53..00000000 --- a/CSHARP-README.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,42 +0,0 @@ -Readme for the C#/.NET implementation of Protocol Buffers - -Copyright 2008 Google Inc. -http://code.google.com/apis/protocolbuffers/ -and -http://github.com/jskeet/dotnet-protobufs - -(This will eventually be written up into a full tutorial etc.) - -Differences with respect to the Java API ----------------------------------------- - -Many of the changes are obvious "making it more like .NET", but -others are more subtle. - -o Properties and indexers are used reasonably extensively. -o newFoo becomes CreateFoo everywhere. -o Classes are broken up much more - for instance, there are - namespaces for descriptors and field accessors, just to make it - easier to see what's going on. -o There's a mixture of generic and non-generic code. This - is interesting (at least if you're a language nerd). Java's generics - are somewhat different to those of .NET, partly due to type erasure - but in other ways too. .NET allows types to be overloaded by the - number of generic parameters, but there's no such thing as the - "raw" type of a generic type. Combining these two facts, I've - ended up with two interfaces for messages, and two for builders - - in each case, a non-generic one and a generic one which derives - from the generic one. Where the members clash (e.g. IBuilder.Build - and IBuilder<TMessage>.Build vary only by return type) the - implementations use explicit interface implementation to provide - the most useful method in most cases. This is very much like - the normal implementation of IEnumerable<T> which extends - IEnumerable. As an aside, this becomes a pain when trying to - create "the read-only version of this list, whose type I don't - know but I know it's a List<something>". Oh for mumble types. -o Nested types always end up under a "Types" static class which - is merely present to avoid name clashes. -o FileDescriptor.FindByName has been made generic to allow simple - type-safe searching for any nested type. -o No enum.valueOf for enums (due to them being simple C# enums) -o Public Builder constructors to aid C# object/collection initializers |