Professional C# 2012 and .NET 4.5 (eBook)

Christian Nagel (Guntramsdorf, Austria) of thinktecture is a Microsoft Regional Director (RD), software architect, and developer with more than 20 years development experience. He has been building solutions with.NET technologies since 2000. He has written many .NET books, and is certified as a Microsoft Certified Trainer and Professional Developer for ASP.NET. Christian speaks at international conferences such as TechEd and Tech Days, and supports .NET user groups with INETA Europe. Bill Evjen (St. Louis, MO) is CTO for Swank Pictures and a Microsoft Regional Director (RD). He has been involved with .NET since 2000 and has since become the founder and president of the International .NET Association (www.ineta.org) representing nearly 500,000 members worldwide. Morgan Skinner (Manchester , UK) began his computing career at a young age on the Sinclair ZX80. He's been programming in C# and .NET since 2000, and liked it so much he joined Microsoft in 2001. Jay Glynn (Franklin, TN) started writing software nearly 20 years ago. He is currently a project coordinator and architect for a large financial services company in Nashville, Tennessee. Karli Watson (Birmingham, UK) is a freelance author and a technical consultant of 3form Ltd and an associate technologist at Content Master.

INTRODUCTION xlix

PART I: THE C# LANGUAGE

CHAPTER 1: .NET ARCHITECTURE 3

CHAPTER 2: CORE C# 23

CHAPTER 3: OBJECTS AND TYPES 65

CHAPTER 4: INHERITANCE 89

CHAPTER 5: GENERICS 107

CHAPTER 6: ARRAYS AND TUPLES 129

CHAPTER 7: OPERATORS AND CASTS 151

CHAPTER 8: DELEGATES, LAMBDAS, AND EVENTS 183

CHAPTER 9: STRINGS AND REGULAR EXPRESSIONS 209

CHAPTER 10: COLLECTIONS 229

CHAPTER 11: LANGUAGE INTEGRATED QUERY 279

CHAPTER 12: DYNAMIC LANGUAGE EXTENSIONS 313

CHAPTER 13: ASYNCHRONOUS PROGRAMMING 325

CHAPTER 14: MEMORY MANAGEMENT AND POINTERS 347

CHAPTER 15: REFLECTION 375

CHAPTER 16: ERRORS AND EXCEPTIONS 393

PART II: VISUAL STUDIO

CHAPTER 17: VISUAL STUDIO 2012 417

CHAPTER 18: DEPLOYMENT 467

PART III: FOUNDATION

CHAPTER 19: ASSEMBLIES 487

CHAPTER 20: DIAGNOSTICS 519

CHAPTER 21: TASKS, THREADS, AND SYNCHRONIZATION 551

CHAPTER 22: SECURITY 601

CHAPTER 23: INTEROP 627

CHAPTER 24: MANIPULATING FILES AND THE REGISTRY 661

CHAPTER 25: TRANSACTIONS 705

CHAPTER 25: TRANSACTIONS 705

CHAPTER 27: WINDOWS SERVICES 771

CHAPTER 28: LOCALIZATION? 803

CHAPTER 29: CORE XAML 845

CHAPTER 30: MANAGED EXTENSIBILITY FRAMEWORK 863

CHAPTER 31: WINDOWS RUNTIME 893

PART IV: DATA

CHAPTER 32: CORE ADO.NET 917

CHAPTER 33: ADO.NET ENTITY FRAMEWORK 963

CHAPTER 34: MANIPULATING XML 995

PART V: PRESENTATION

CHAPTER 35: CORE WPF 1049

CHAPTER 36: BUSINESS APPLICATIONS WITH WPF 1101

CHAPTER 37: CREATING DOCUMENTS WITH WPF 1153

CHAPTER 38: WINDOWS STORE APPS 1175

CHAPTER 39: CORE ASP.NET 1211

CHAPTER 40: ASP.NET WEB FORMS 1239

CHAPTER 41: ASP.NET MVC 1283

CHAPTER 42: ASP.NET DYNAMIC DATA 1321

PART VI: COMMUNICATION

CHAPTER 43: WINDOWS COMMUNICATION FOUNDATION 1337

CHAPTER 44: WCF DATA SERVICES 1379

CHAPTER 45: WINDOWS WORKFLOW FOUNDATION 1399

CHAPTER 46: PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKING 1425

CHAPTER 46: PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKING 1425

INDEX 1473