C sharp 5.0 Unleashed

Cleanup 438 Locking on Objects 448 Summary 462 9 Introducing Types 463 Types Revisited 463 Classes Versus Structs 466 Type Members 486 Summary 499 10 Methods 501 Defining Methods 501 Specifying the Return Type 502 Declaring Parameters 504 Overloading 519 Extension Methods 524 Partial Methods 534 Extern Methods 538 Refactoring 540 Code Analysis 545 Summary 546 11 Fields, Properties, and Indexers 547 Fields 547 An Intermezzo About Enums 563 Properties 574 Indexers 580 Summary 583 12 Constructors and Finalizers 585 Constructors 585 Static Constructors 592 Destructors (Poorly Named Finalizers) 595 Summary 608 13 Operator Overloading and Conversions 609 Operators 609 Conversions 633 Summary 647 14 Object-Oriented Programming 649 The Cornerstones of Object Orientation 649 Inheritance for Classes 663 Protected Accessibility 674 Polymorphism and Virtual Members 676 Abstract Classes 688 Interface Types 690 Summary 699 15 Generic Types and Methods 701 Life Without Generics 701 Getting Started with Generics 704 Declaring Generic Types 707 Using Generic Types 712 Performance Intermezzo 714 Operations on Type Parameters 718 Generic Constraints 720 Generic Methods 736 Co- and Contravariance 743 Summary 754 16 Collection Types 755 Nongeneric Collection Types 755 Generic Collection Types 765 Thread-Safe Collection Types 778 Other Collection Types 786 Summary 787 17 Delegates 789 Functional Programming 789 What Are Delegates? 794 Delegate Types 794 Delegate Instances 798 Invoking Delegates 811 Putting It Together: An Extensible Calculator 815 Case Study: Delegates Used in LINQ to Objects 819 Asynchronous Invocation 823 Combining Delegates 835 Summary 842 18 Events 843 The Two Sides of Delegates 844 A Reactive Application 845 How Events Work 853 Raising Events, the Correct Way 855 add and remove Accessors 857 Detach Your Event Handlers 861 Recommended Event Patterns 871 Case Study: INotifyProperty Interfaces and UI Programming 880 Countdown, the GUI Way 890 Event Interoperability with WinRT 896 Introduction to Reactive Programming 898 Summary 911 19 Language Integrated Query Essentials 913 Life Without LINQ 914 LINQ by Example 921 Query Expression Syntax 931 Summary 975 20 Language Integrated Query Internals 977 How LINQ to Objects Works 977 Standard Query Operators 1000 The Query Pattern 1033 Parallel LINQ 1036 Expression Trees 1045 Summary 1055 21 Reflection 1057 Typing Revisited, Static and Otherwise. 1058 Reflection 1063 Lightweight Code Generation 1091 Expression Trees 1101 Summary 1117 22 Dynamic Programming 1119 The dynamic Keyword in C# 4.0 1119 DLR Internals 1137 Office and COM Interop 1159 Summary 1174 23 Exceptions 1175 Life Without Exceptions 1175 Introducing Exceptions 1178 Exception Handling 1180 Throwing Exceptions 1196 Defining Your Own Exception Types 1198 (In)famous Exception Types 1201 Summary 1220 24 Namespaces 1221 Organizing Types in Namespaces 1221 Declaring Namespaces 1227 Importing Namespaces 1231 Summary 1240 25 Assemblies and Application Domains 1241 Assemblies 1241 Application Domains 1286 Summary 1298 26 Base Class Library Essentials 1301 The BCL: What, Where, and How? 1303 The Holy System Root Namespace 1311 Facilities to Work with Text 1356 Summary 1372 27 Diagnostics and Instrumentation 1373 Ensuring Code Quality 1374 Instrumentation 1388 Controlling Processes 1396 Summary 1398 28 Working with I/O 1399 Files and Directories 1399 Monitoring File System Activity 1407 Readers and Writers 1409 Streams: The Bread and Butter of I/O 1415 A Primer to (Named) Pipes 1434 Memory-Mapped Files in a Nutshell 1437 Overview of Other I/O Capabilities 1440 Summary 1440 29 Threading and Synchronization 1443 Using Threads 1444 Thread Pools 1474 Synchronization Primitives 1482 Summary 1511 30 Task Parallelism and Data Parallelism 1513 Pros and Cons of Threads 1514 The Task Parallel Library 1515 Task Parallelism 1520 Data Parallelism 1542 Summary 1550 31 Asynchronous Programming 1551 Why Asynchronous Programming Matters 1551 Old Asynchronous Programming Patterns 1564 Asynchronous Methods and await Expressions 1584 Behind the Scenes 1610 Advanced Topics 1634 Summary 1641 32 Introduction to Windows Runtime 1643 What Is Windows Runtime? 1643 Creating a Windows Runtime Component 1658 Overview of the Windows Runtime APIs 1667 Summary 1669 Index 1671