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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| Introducing C# | |
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| Hello, World | |
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| C# Syntax Fundamentals | |
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| Console Input and Output | |
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| Data Types | |
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| Fundamental Numeric Types | |
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| More Fundamental Types | |
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| null and void | |
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| Categories of Types | |
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| Nullable Modifier | |
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| Conversions between Data Types | |
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| Arrays | |
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| Operators and Control Flow | |
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| Operators | |
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| Introducing Flow Control | |
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| Code Blocks ({}) | |
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| Code Blocks, Scopes, and Declaration Spaces | |
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| Boolean Expressions | |
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| Bitwise Operators (<<, >>, , &, �, �) | |
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| Control How Statements, Continued | |
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| Jump Statements | |
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| C# Preprocessor Directives | |
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| Methods and Parameters | |
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| Calling a Method | |
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| Declaring a Method | |
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| The using Directive | |
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| Returns and Parameters on Main () | |
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| Advanced Method Parameters | |
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| Recursion | |
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| Method Overloading | |
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| Optional Parameters | |
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| Basic Error Handling with Exceptions | |
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| Classes | |
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| Declaring and lnstantiating a Class | |
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| Instance Fields | |
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| Instance Methods | |
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| Using the this Keyword | |
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| Access Modifiers | |
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| Properties | |
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| Constructors | |
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| Static Members | |
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| Extension Methods | |
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| Encapsulating the Data | |
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| Nested Classes | |
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| Partial Classes | |
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| Inheritance | |
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| Derivation | |
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| Overriding the Base Class | |
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| Abstract Classes | |
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| All Classes Derive from System Object | |
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| Verifying the Underlying Type with the is Operator | |
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| Conversion Using the as Operator | |
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| Interfaces | |
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| Introducing Interfaces | |
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| Polymorphism through Interfaces | |
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| Interface Implementation | |
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| Converting between the Implementing Class and Its Interfaces | |
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| Interface Inheritance | |
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| Multiple Interface Inheritance | |
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| Extension Methods on Interfaces | |
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| Implementing Multiple Inheritance via Interfaces | |
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| Versioning | |
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| Interfaces Compared with Classes | |
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| Interfaces Compared with Attributes | |
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| Value Types | |
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| Structs | |
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| Boxing | |
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| Enums | |
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| Well-Formed Types | |
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| Overriding object Members | |
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| Operator Overloading | |
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| Referencing Other Assemblies | |
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| Defining Namespaces | |
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| XML Comments | |
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| Garbage Collection | |
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| Resource Cleanup | |
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| Lazy Initialization | |
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| Exception Handling | |
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| Multiple Exception Types | |
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| Catching Exceptions | |
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| General Catch Block | |
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| Guidelines for Exception Handling | |
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| Defining Custom Exceptions | |
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| Wrapping an Exception and Rethrowing | |
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| Generics | |
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| C# without Generics | |
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| Introducing Generic Types | |
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| Constraints | |
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| Generic Methods | |
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| Covariance and Contravariance | |
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| Generic Internals | |
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| Delegates and Lambda Expressions | |
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| Introducing Delegates | |
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| Lambda Expressions | |
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| Anonymous Methods | |
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| General-Purpose Delegates: System.Func and System.Action | |
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| Events | |
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| Coding the Observer Pattern with Multicast Delegates | |
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| Events | |
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| Collection Interfaces with Standard Query Operators | |
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| Anonymous Types and Implicitly Typed Local Variables | |
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| Collection Initializers | |
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| What Makes a Class a Collection: IEnumerable<T> | |
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| Standard Query Operators | |
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| LI NQ with Query Expressions | |
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| Introducing Query Expressions | |
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| Query Expressions Are Just Method Invocations | |
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| Building Custom Collections | |
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| More Collection Interfaces | |
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| Primary Collection Classes | |
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| Providing an Indexer | |
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| Returning Null or an Empty Collection | |
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| Iterators | |
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| Reflection, Attributes, and Dynamic Programming | |
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| Reflection | |
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| Attributes | |
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| Programming with Dynamic Objects | |
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| Multithreading | |
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| Multithreading Basics | |
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| Working with System. Threading | |
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| Asynchronous Tasks | |
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| Canceling a Task | |
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| The Task-Based Asynchronous Pattern in C# 5.0 | |
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| Executing Loop Iterations in Parallel | |
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| Running LFNQ Queries in Parallel | |
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| Thread Synchronization | |
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| Why Synchronization? | |
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| Timers | |
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| Platform Interoperability and Unsafe Code | |
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| Using the Windows Runtime Libraries from C# | |
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| Platform Invoke | |
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| Pointers and Addresses | |
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| Executing Unsafe Code via a Delegate | |
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| The Common Language Infrastructure | |
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| Defining the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) | |
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| CLI Implementations | |
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| C# Compilation to Machine Code | |
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| Runtime | |
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| Application Domains | |
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| Assemblies, Manifests, and Modules | |
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| Common Intermediate Language (CIL) | |
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| Common Type System (CTS) | |
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| Common Language Specification (CLS) | |
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| Base Class Library (BCL) | |
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| Metadata | |
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| Downloading and Installing the C# Compiler and CLI Platform | |
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| Microsoft's .NET | |
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| Tic-Tac-Toe Source Code Listing | |
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| Interfacing with Mutithreading Patterns Prior to the TPLandC#5.0 | |
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| Asynchronous Programming Model | |
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| Asynchronous Delegate Invocation | |
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| The Event-Based Asynchronous Pattern (EAP) | |
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| Background Worker Pattern | |
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| Dispatching to the Windows UI | |
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| Timers Prior to the Async/Await Pattern of C# 5.0 | |
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| Index | |
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| Index of C# 5.0 Topics | |
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| Index of C# 4.0 Topics | |
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| Index ofC#3.0 Topics | |