How to Code .NET

What This Book Is About.- .NET Runtime and Framework Related Solutions.- Value Types and Reference Types Can Be Confused.- What are Delegates?- What Does the Yield Keyword Really Generate?- Versioning Assemblies.- Loading Assemblies Without Any Hassles Using A Utility Class.- Dynamically Loading and Unloading Assemblies.- Implementing GetHashCode Properly.- Think of .NET Generics as Black Boxes.- Figuring Out What Generic Methods Do.- Why For .NET Generics Do You Need the New and Class Keyword?- Text Related Solutions.- Converting a String to an Array and Vice Versa.- Parsing Numbers from Buffers.- When To Use StringBuilder.- Finding a Piece of Text within a Text Buffer.- Always Implement ToString.- Using a Disposable Type to Iterating the Results of Finding Multiple Pieces of Text within a Text Buffer.- Making ToString Generate Structured Output.- C# and Code Related Solutions.- Inheritance can be Used Effectively (instead of Interfaces only).- (Almost) Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Implementing Interfaces.- Defining a Namespace, Class, and Interface Naming Convention.- Understanding the Overloaded Return Type and Property.- Null Is Not Always A Null.- Architecture, and Pattern Related Solutions.- Abstract Class Bridge Pattern Variation.- Nested Private Class Bridge Pattern Variation.- How to Effectively Deal with Placeholder Interfaces or Base Classes.- A Null Value is Not Always a Null State.- All the Essentials You Ever Wanted To Know About The Factory Pattern.- Don't Expose the Internal State of a Class.- Designing Consistent Classes.- Immutable Types are Scalable Type.- Understanding and Using Functors.- Avoiding Constructors Parameters without Identity.- Understanding and Implementing Singletons.- Testing Hard To Test Classes Using Mock Objects.