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| Preface | |
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| Numbers and Enumerations | |
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| Determining Approximate Equality Between a Fraction and Floating-Point Value | |
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| Converting Degrees to Radians | |
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| Converting Radians to Degrees | |
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| Using the Bitwise Complement Operator with Various Data Types | |
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| Testing for an Even or Odd Value | |
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| Obtaining the High Word or Low Word of a Number | |
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| Converting a Number in Another Base to Base10 | |
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| Determining Whether a String Is a Valid Number | |
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| Rounding a Floating-Point Value | |
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| Choosing a Rounding Algorithm | |
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| Converting Celsius to Fahrenheit | |
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| Converting Fahrenheit to Celsius | |
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| Safely Performing a Narrowing Numeric Cast | |
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| Finding the Length of Any Three Sides of a Right Triangle | |
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| Finding the Angles of a Right Triangle | |
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| Displaying an Enumeration Value as a String | |
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| Converting Plain Text to an Equivalent Enumeration Value | |
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| Testing for a Valid Enumeration Value | |
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| Testing for a Valid Enumeration of Flags | |
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| Using Enumerated Members in a Bit Mask | |
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| Determining if One or More Enumeration Flags Are Set | |
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| Determining the Integral Part of a Decimal or Double | |
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| Strings and Characters | |
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| Determining the Kind of Character a char Contains | |
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| Determining Whether a Character Is Within a Specified Range | |
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| Controlling Case Sensitivity When Comparing Two Characters | |
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| Finding All Occurrences of a Character Within a String | |
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| Finding the Location of All Occurrences of a String Within Another String | |
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| Implementing a Poor Man''s Tokenizer to Deconstruct a String | |
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| Controlling Case Sensitivity When Comparing Two Strings | |
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| Comparing a String to the Beginning or End of a Second String | |
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| Inserting Text into a String | |
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| Removing or Replacing Characters Within a String2.11 Encoding Binary Data as Base64 | |
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| Decoding a Base64-Encoded Binary | |
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| Converting a String Returned as a Byte[ ] Back into a String | |
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| Passing a String to a Method That Accepts only a Byte[ ] | |
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| Converting Strings to Other Types | |
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| Formatting Data in Strings | |
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| Creating a Delimited String | |
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| Extracting Items from a Delimited String | |
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| Setting the Maximum Number of Characters a StringBuilder Can Contain | |
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| Iterating over Each Character in a String | |
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| Improving String Comparison Performance | |
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| Improving StringBuilder Performance | |
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| Pruning Characters from the Head and/or Tail of a String | |
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| Testing a String for Null or Empty | |
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| Appending a Line | |
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| Encoding Chunks of Data | |
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| Classes and Structures | |
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| Creating Union-Type Structures | |
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| Allowing a Type to Represent Itself as a String | |
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| Converting a String Representation of an Object into an Actual Object | |
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| Implementing Polymorphism with Abstract Base Classes | |
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| Making a Type Sortable | |
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| Making a Type Searchable | |
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| Indirectly Overloading the +=, -=, /=, and = Operators | |
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| Indirectly Overloading the &&, and ?: Operators | |
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| Turning Bits On or Off | |
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| Making Error-Free Expressions | |
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| Minimizing (Reducing) Your Boolean Logic | |
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| Converting Between Simple Types in a Language-Agnostic Manner | |
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| Determining When to Use the Cast Operator, the as Operator, or the is Operator | |
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| Casting with the as Operator | |
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| Determining a Variable''s Type with the is Operator | |
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| Implementing Polymorphism with Interfaces | |
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| Calling the Same Method on Multiple Object Types | |
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| Adding a Notification Callback Using an Interface | |
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| Using Multiple Entry Points to Version an Application | |
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| Preventing the Creation of an Only Partially Initialized Object | |
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| Returning Multiple Items from a Method | |
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| Parsing Command-Line Parameters | |
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| Retrofitting a Class to Interoperate with COM | |
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| Initializing a Constant Field at Runtime | |
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| Writing Code That Is Compatible with the Widest Range of Managed Languages | |
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| Building Cloneable Classes | |
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| Assuring an Object''s Disposal | |
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| Releasing a COM Object Through Managed Code | |
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| Creating an Object Cache | |
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| Rolling Back Object Changes | |
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| Disposing of Unmanaged Resources | |
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| Determining Where Boxing and Unboxing Occur | |
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| Generics | |
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| Deciding When and Where to Use Generics | |
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| Understanding Generic | |