Programming C#

Jesse Liberty is the best selling author of Programming ASP.NET, Programming C#, and a dozen other books on web and object oriented programming. He is president of Liberty Associates, Inc., where he provides contract programming, consulting and on-site training in ASP.NET, C#, C++ and related topics. Jesse has been a Distinguished Software Engineer at AT&T and Vice President for technology development at CitiBank.

Preface Part I. The C# Language 1. C# and the .NET Framework; The .NET Platform The .NET Framework Compilation and the MSIL; The C# Language 2. Getting Started: "Hello World" Classes, Objects, and Types Developing "Hello World" Using the Visual Studio .NET Debugger 3. C# Language Fundamentals Types; Variables and Constants Expressions Whitespace Statements; Operators Preprocessor Directives 4. Classes and Objects; Defining Classes Creating Objects Using Static Members; Destroying Objects Passing Parameters Overloading Methods and Constructors Encapsulating Data with Properties readonly Fields; 5. Inheritance and Polymorphism Specialization and Generalization; Inheritance Polymorphism Abstract Classes The Root of All Classes: Object Boxing and Unboxing Types Nesting Classes; 6. Operator Overloading Using the operator Keyword Supporting Other .NET Languages Creating Useful Operators Logical Pairs; The Equality Operator Conversion Operators 7. Structs; Defining Structs Creating Structs 8. Interfaces Defining and Implementing an Interface Accessing Interface Methods Overriding Interface Implementations Explicit Interface Implementation; 9. Arrays, Indexers, and Collections Arrays The foreach Statement Indexers Collection Interfaces Constraints; List Queues Stacks Dictionaries 10. Strings and Regular Expressions Strings Regular Expressions 11. Handling Exceptions Throwing and Catching Exceptions Exception Objects; Custom Exceptions Rethrowing Exceptions 12. Delegates and Events Delegates Multicasting Events Using Anonymous Methods Retrieving Values from Multicast Delegates Part II. Programming with C# 13. Building Windows Applications Creating a Simple Windows Form Creating a Windows Forms Application; XML Documentation Comments 14. Accessing Data with ADO.NET Relational Databases and SQL The ADO.NET Object Model Getting Started with ADO.NET Using OLE DB Managed Providers Working with Data-Bound Controls 15. Programming ASP.NET Applications and Web Services Understanding Web Forms Creating a Web Form Adding Controls Data Binding Web Services SOAP, WSDL, and Discovery; Building a Web Service Creating the Proxy 16. Putting It All Together The Overall Design Creating the Web Services Client; Displaying the Output Searching by Category Part III. The CLR and the .NET Framework 17. Assemblies and Versioning PE Files; Metadata Security Boundary Manifests Multimodule Assemblies; Private Assemblies Shared Assemblies 18. Attributes and Reflection Attributes Reflection 19. Marshaling and Remoting; Application Domains Context Remoting 20. Threads and Synchronization Threads Synchronization Race Conditions and Deadlocks 21. Streams Files and Directories Reading and Writing Data Asynchronous I/O Network I/O Web Streams; Serialization Isolated Storage 22. Programming .NET and COM; Importing ActiveX Controls Importing COM Components Exporting .NET Components P/Invoke Pointers Appendix: C# Keywords; Index