C# 5.0 Programmer's Reference

Introduction xxxiii
Part I: The C# Ec osystem
Chapter 1: The C# Environment 3
Chapter 2: Writing a First Program 11
Chapter 3: Program and Code File Structure 27
Part II: C# Language Elements
Chapter 4: Data Types, Variables, and Constants 53
Chapter 5: Operators 99
Chapter 6: Methods 121
Chapter 7: Program Control Statements 151
Chapter 8: LINQ 169
Chapter 9: Error Handling 205
Chapter 10: Tracing and Debugging 231
Part III: Object-Oriented Programming
Chapter 11: OO P Concepts 245
Chapter 12: Classes and Structures 269
Chapter 13: Namespaces 303
Chapter 14: Collection Classes 317
Chapter 15: Generics 343
Part IV: Interacting with the Environment
Chapter 16: Printing 359
Chapter 17: Configuration and Resources 393
Chapter 18: Streams 411
Chapter 19: File System Objects 425
Chapter 20: Networking 445
Part V: Advanced Topics
Chapter 21: Regular Expressions 469
Chapter 22: Parallel Programming 485
Chapter 23: ADO .NET 509
Chapter 24: XML 533
Chapter 25: Serialization 563
Chapter 26: Reflection 581
Chapter 27: Cryptography 601
Part VI: Appendices
Appendix A: Solutions to Exercises 625
Appendix B: Data Types 733
Appendix C: Variable Declarations 737
Appendix D: Constant Declarations 741
Appendix E: Operators 743
Appendix F: Method Declarations 749
Appendix G: Useful Attributes 753
Appendix H: Control Statements 757
Appendix I: Error Handling 761
Appendix J: LINQ 763
Appendix K: Classes and Structures 773
Appendix L: Collection Classes 777
Appendix M: Generic Declarations 783
Appendix N: Printing and Graphics 785
Appendix O: Useful Exception Classes 799
Appendix P: Date and Time Format Specifiers 803
Appendix Q: Other Format Specifiers 807
Appendix R: Streams 813
Appendix S: Filesystem Classes 821
Appendix T: Regular Expressions 835
Appendix U: Parallel Programming 843
Appendix V: XML 849
Appendix W: Serialization 859
Index 877