Preface; How This Book Is Organized; Who This Book Is For; What You Need to Use This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari® Books Online; Acknowledgments;Chapter 1: Introducing C#; 1.1 Why C#? Why .NET?; 1.2 The .NET Framework Class Library; 1.3 Language Style; 1.4 C# 4.0, .
NET 4, and Visual Studio 2010; 1.5 Summary;Chapter 2: Basic Programming Techniques; 2.1 Getting Started; 2.2 Namespaces and Types; 2.3 Projects and Solutions; 2.4 Comments, Regions, and Readability; 2.5 Variables; 2.6 Expressions and Statements; 2.
7 Flow Control with Selection Statements; 2.8 Iteration Statements; 2.9 Methods; 2.10 Summary;Chapter 3: Abstracting Ideas with Classes and Structs; 3.1 Divide and Conquer; 3.2 Defining Classes; 3.3 Related Constants with enum; 3.4 Value Types and Reference Types; 3.
5 Too Many Constructors, Mr. Mozart; 3.6 Overloading; 3.7 Object Initializers; 3.8 Defining Methods; 3.9 Static Fields and Properties; 3.10 Summary;Chapter 4: Extensibility and Polymorphism; 4.1 Association Through Composition and Aggregation; 4.
2 Inheritance and Polymorphism; 4.3 Replacing Methods in Derived Classes; 4.4 Inheritance and Protection; 4.5 Calling Base Class Methods; 4.6 Thus Far and No Farther: sealed; 4.7 Requiring Overrides with abstract; 4.8 All Types Are Derived from Object; 4.9 C# Does Not Support Multiple Inheritance of Implementation; 4.
10 C# Supports Multiple Inheritance of Interface; 4.11 Deriving Interfaces from Other Interfaces; 4.12 The Last Resort: Checking Types at Runtime; 4.13 Summary;Chapter 5: Composability and Extensibility with Delegates; 5.1 Functional Composition with delegate; 5.2 Generic Actions with Action; 5.3 Generic Predicates with Predicate; 5.4 Using Anonymous Methods; 5.
5 Creating Delegates with Lambda Expressions; 5.6 Delegates in Properties; 5.7 Generic Delegates for Functions; 5.8 Notifying Clients with Events; 5.9 Summary;Chapter 6: Dealing with Errors; 6.1 When and How to Fail; 6.2 Returning Error Values; 6.3 Exceptions; 6.
4 Summary;Chapter 7: Arrays and Lists; 7.1 Arrays; 7.2 List; 7.3 Collections and Polymorphism; 7.4 Summary;Chapter 8: LINQ; 8.1 Query Expressions; 8.2 LINQ Concepts and Techniques; 8.3 LINQ Operators; 8.
4 Summary;Chapter 9: Collection Classes; 9.1 Dictionaries; 9.2 HashSet and SortedSet; 9.3 Queues; 9.4 Linked Lists; 9.5 Stacks; 9.6 Summary;Chapter 10: Strings; 10.1 What Is a String?; 10.
2 The String and Char Types; 10.3 Literal Strings and Chars; 10.4 Formatting Data for Output; 10.5 Culture Sensitivity; 10.6 Accessing Characters by Index; 10.7 Strings Are Immutable; 10.8 Getting a Range of Characters; 10.9 Composing Strings; 10.
10 Manipulating Text; 10.11 Finding and Replacing Content; 10.12 All Sorts of "Empty" Strings; 10.13 Trimming Whitespace; 10.14 Checking Character Types; 10.15 Encoding Characters; 10.16 Summary;Chapter 11: Files and Streams; 11.1 Inspecting Directories and Files; 11.
2 Examining Directories; 11.3 Manipulating File Paths; 11.4 Examining File Information; 11.5 Creating Temporary Files; 11.6 Deleting Files; 11.7 Well-Known Folders; 11.8 Concatenating Path Elements Safely; 11.9 Creating and Securing Directory Hierarchies; 11.
10 Deleting a Directory; 11.11 Writing Text Files; 11.12 When Files Go Bad: Dealing with Exceptions; 11.13 Reading Files into Memory; 11.14 Streams; 11.15 Reading, Writing, and Locking Files; 11.16 FileStream Constructors; 11.17 Asynchronous File Operations; 11.
18 Isolated Storage; 11.19 Streams That Aren''t Files; 11.20 Summary;Chapter 12: XML; 12.1 XML Basics (A Quick Review); 12.2 X Stands for eXtensible; 12.3 Creating XML Documents; 12.4 Searching in XML with LINQ; 12.5 XML Serialization; 12.
6 Summary;Chapter 13: Networking; 13.1 Choosing a Networking Technology; 13.2 WCF; 13.3 HTTP; 13.4 Sockets; 13.5 Other Networking Features; 13.6 Summary;Chapter 14: Databases; 14.1 The .
NET Data Access Landscape; 14.2 The Entity Data Model; 14.3 Queries; 14.4 Object Context; 14.5 WCF Data Services; 14.6 Summary;Chapter 15: Assemblies; 15.1 .NET Components: Assemblies; 15.
2 Naming; 15.3 Loading; 15.4 Summary;Chapter 16: Threads and Asynchronous Code; 16.1 Threads; 16.2 Synchronization Primitives; 16.3 Asynchronous Programming; 16.4 The Task Parallel Library; 16.5 Data Parallelism; 16.
6 Summary;Chapter 17: Attributes and Reflection; 17.1 Attributes; 17.2 Reflection; 17.3 Summary;Chapter 18: Dynamic; 18.1 Static Versus Dynamic; 18.2 The dynamic Type; 18.3 dynamic in Noninterop Scenarios?; 18.4 Summary;Chapter 19: Interop with COM and Win32; 19.
1 Importing ActiveX Controls; 19.2 Interop Assemblies; 19.3 64-bit Versus 32-bit; 19.4 P/Invoke; 19.5 Pointers; 19.6 C# 4.0 Interop Syntax Enhancements; 19.7 Summary;Chapter 20: WPF and Silverlight; 20.
1 Xaml and Code Behind; 20.2 Elements and Controls; 20.3 Control Templates; 20.4 Data Binding; 20.5 Summary;Chapter 21: Programming ASP.NET Applications; 21.1 Web Forms Fundamentals; 21.2 Creating a Web Application; 21.
3 Data Binding; 21.4 Summary;Chapter 22: Windows Forms; 22.1 Creating the Application; 22.2 Controls; 22.3 Data Binding; 22.4 Event Handling; 22.5 Summary;Colophon;.