C# 3. 0 Cookbook More Than 250 Solutions for C# 3. 0 Programmers

Name: C# 3. 0 Cookbook More Than 250 Solutions for C# 3. 0 Programmers
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ISBN: 9780596516109

ISBN-10: 059651610X

ISBN-13: 9780596516109

Edition: 3rd 2007 (Revised)

Authors: Jay Hilyard, Stephen Teilhet

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Completely updated for C# 3.0 and the .NET 3.5 platform, the new edition of this bestseller offers more than 250 code recipes to common and not-so-common problems that C# programmers face every day. Every recipe in the book has been reconsidered with more than a third of them rewritten to take advantage of new C# 3.0 features. If you prefer solutions you can use today to general C# language instruction, and quick answers to theory, this is your book. C# 3.0 Cookbook offers a new chapter on LINQ (language integrated query), plus two expanded chapters for recipes for extension methods, lambda functions, object initializers, new synchronization primitives and more. The new edition is also…

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List price: $54.99
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/29/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 886
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.684

Jay Hilyard has been developing applications for the Windows platform for over 15 years and for .NET for more than seven of those. He has published numerous articles in MSDN Magazine and he currently works on the New Product Team at Newmarket International in Portsmouth, NH.

Stephen Teilhet has been working with the .NET platform since the pre-alpha version of the.NET 1.0 framework was being developed by Microsoft. Currently he works for Ounce Labs where he is working on enhancing their static security code analysis tool to find vulnerabilities in several languages including C# and Visual Basic.



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Third Edition


Dedication


Preface



Who This Book Is For



What You Need to Use This Book



Platform Notes



How This Book Is Organized



What Was Left Out



Conventions Used in This Book



About the Code



Using Code Examples



Comments and Questions



Safari#xAE; Books Online



Acknowledgments



Language Integrated Query (LINQ)



Introduction



Query a Message Queue



Using Set Semantics with Data



Reuse Parameterized Queries with LINQ to SQL



Sort Results in a Culture-Sensitive Manner



Adding Functional Extensions for Use with LINQ



Query and Join Across Data Repositories



Querying Configuration Files with LINQ



Creating XML Straight from a Database



Being Selective About Your Query Results



Using LINQ with Collections That Don't Support IEnumerable



Strings and Characters



Introduction



Determining the Kind of Character a Char Contains



Controlling Case Sensitivity When Comparing Two Characters



Finding the Location of All Occurrences of a String Within Another String



Controlling Case Sensitivity When Comparing Two Strings



Comparing a String to the Beginning or End of a Second String



Inserting Text into a String



Removing or Replacing Characters Within a String



Encoding Binary Data As Base64



Decoding a Base64-Encoded Binary



Converting a String Returned As a Byte[] Back into a String



Passing a String to a Method That Accepts Only a Byte[]



Converting Strings to Other Types



Creating a Delimited String



Extracting Items from a Delimited String



Iterating over Each Character in a String



Pruning Characters from the Head and/or Tail of a String



Testing a String for Null or Empty



Appending a Line



Classes and Structures



Introduction



Creating Union-Type Structures



Making a Type Sortable



Making a Type Searchable



Indirectly Overloading the +=, -=, /=, and = Operators



Indirectly Overloading the &&, and ?: Operators



Making Error-Free Expressions



Reducing Your Boolean Logic



Converting Between Simple Types in a Programming Language-Agnostic Manner



Determining When to Use the cast Operator, the as Operator, or the is Operator



Casting with the as Operator



Determining a Variable's Type with the is Operator



Returning Multiple Items from a Method



Parsing Command-Line Parameters



Initializing a Constant Field at Runtime



Building Cloneable Classes



Assuring an Object's Disposal



Disposing of Unmanaged Resources



Determining Where Boxing and Unboxing Occur



Generics



Introduction



Deciding When and Where to Use Generics



Understanding Generic Types



Replacing the ArrayList with Its Generic Counterpart



Replacing the Stack and Queue with Their Generic Counterparts



Using a Linked List



Creating a Value Type That Can Be Initialized to Null



Reversing the Contents of a Sorted List



Making Read-Only Collections the Generic Way



Replacing the Hashtable with Its Generic Counterpart



Using foreach with Generic Dictionary Types



Constraining Type Arguments



Initializing Generic Variables to Their Default Values



Collections



Introduction



Swapping Two Elements in an Array



Reversing an Array Quickly



Writing a More Flexible StackTrace Class



Determining the Number of Times an Item Appears in a List



Retrieving All Instances of a Specific Item in a List



Inserting and Removing Items from an Array



Keeping Your List Sorted



Sorting a Dictionary's Keys and/or Values



Creating a Dictionary with Max and Min Value Boundaries



Storing Snapshots of Lists in an Array



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