Inside C#

Take a detailed look at the internal architecture of the groundbreaking new C# language with this in-depth book. It takes you inside this state-of-the-art object-oriented programming language and its design parameters and construction to give you a complete understanding of how it works—and why it works that way. Along the way, this book reveals the full functionality of C# to enable you to write applications for Microsoft® .NET. This book covers:
• The Common Type System
• Classes, constructors, object cleanup, and resource management
• Virtual and static methods
• Properties and arrays (single, multidimensional, and jagged)
• Defining and querying attributes
• Declaring and implementing interfaces
• C# operators
• Interoperating with unmanaged code
• Writing multithreaded C# programs
• Error handling with exceptions
INCLUDED ON CD-ROM:
• A searchable electronic version of the book
• Sample code in C#

Contents

Foreword ..... xv

Introduction ..... xix

Part I Laying the Groundwork

1 Fundamentals of Object-Oriented Programming ..... 3

2 Introducing Microsoft .NET ..... 23

3 Hello, C# ..... 35

Part II C# Class Fundamentals

4 The Type System ..... 57

5 Classes ..... 69

6 Methods ..... 103

7 Properties, Arrays, and Indexers ..... 123

8 Attributes ..... 143

9 Interfaces ..... 161

Part III Writing Code

10 Expressions and Operators ..... 189

11 Program Flow Control ..... 215

12 Error Handling with Exceptions ..... 245

13 Operator Overloading and User-Defined Conversions ..... 267

14 Delegates and Event Handlers ..... 281

Part IV Advanced C#

15 Multithreaded Programming ..... 303

16 Querying Metadata with Reflection ..... 327

17 Interoperating with Unmanaged Code ..... 345

18 Working with Assemblies ..... 369

Index ..... 385