C# Class Design Handbook

- Defining Types
- Type Members
- Methods
- Properties and Operators
- Constructors and the Object Lifecycle
- Events and Delegates
- Inheritance and Polymorphism
- Code Organization and Metadata
- Support, Errata, and Code Download.

Richard Conway started programming BASIC with the ZX81 at an early age later graduating to using BASIC and 6502 assembly language, COMAL and Pascal for the BBC B and Archimedes RISC machines. He is an independent software consultant who lives and works in London. He has been using Microsoft technologies for many years and has architected and built enterprise systems for IBM, Merrill Lynch and Reuters. He has focused his development on Windows DNA including various tools and languages such as COM+, VB, XML, C++, J++, BizTalk and more recently, Data Warehousing. He has been actively involved in EAP trials with Microsoft for .NET My Services and the .NET Compact Framework. He has spent the last two and a half years since the release of the technical preview (of VS.NET) programming proof-of-concept and enterprise system projects in C#. His special area of interest is Network Security and Cryptography. Richard is a contributor to both C# Today and ASP Today. He is currently involved in a product development and consultancy alliance - http://www.vertexion.co.uk - specializing in data warehousing and security products.

Teun Duynstee lives in the Netherlands. He works with Macaw as a lead software developer and loves programming, his girlfriend Marjolein, and Arnie the cat.

Ben Hyrman works as a Program Architect for Best Buy, in tropical Minneapolis, Minnesota. Ben enjoys the balmy Minnesota weather with his loving wife, Dawn, and an overactive mutt of a dog, Bandit. When they¿re not busy with work or off on road trips, Ben and Dawn enjoy painting their house and arguing over database design patterns. Roger Rowland

Roger Rowland is a freelance IT Consultant based in the UK. He has 25 years of software development experience on a variety of platforms. He currently specializes in Microsoft technologies including VC++, VB, C#, SQL and ASP.