Professional .NET Framework 2.0

Chapter 1: We learn from failure, not from success! #8212; Bram Stoker's Dracula Overview The Microsoft Windows platform has evolved substantially over time. There have been clear ups and downs along t...

Chapter 2: Common Type System A type system is a tractable syntactic method for proving the absence of certain program behaviors by classifying phrases according to the kinds of values they comprise.#8212; Benjami...

Chapter 3: Inside the CLR We think in generalities, but we live in details.#8212; Alfred North Whitehead Overview The Common Language Runtime (CLR) is the virtual execution system responsible for running...

Chapter 4: Assemblies, Loading, and Deployment Windows itself is basically a set of dynamic-link libraries. #8212; Charles Petzold, Programming Windows Overview Throughout the history of programming lan...

Chapter 5: Fundamental Types Informally, data is "stuff" that we want to manipulate, and procedures are descriptions of the rules for manipulating the data. Thus, any powerful programming language should be able t...

Chapter 6: Arrays and Collections In order to use a computer properly, we need to understand the structural relationships present within data, as well as the basic techniques for representing and manipulating such s...

Chapter 7: I/O, Files, and Networking A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits...

Chapter 8: Internationalization Having to retrofit internationalization or scalability is a pain, certainly. The only bigger pain is not needing to, because your initial version was too big and rigid to evolve int...

Chapter 9: Security Never underestimate the time, expense, and effort an opponent will expend to break a code.#8212; Robert Morris Overview Writing secure code is extremely important in today's highly co...

Chapter 10: Threads, AppDomains, and Processes [I]f you want your application to benefit from the continued exponential throughput advances in new processors, it will need to be a well-written concurrent (usually...

Chapter 11: Unmanaged Interoperability COM is Love. #8212; Don Box I have a feeling that very little software written today, except for some FORTRAN programs, will be in use anywhere near AD 3400, but I have...

Chapter 12: Tracing and Diagnostics Overview The .NET Framework offers an incredibly extensible tracing infrastructure, all the way from basic asserts to industrial strength event logging. This chapter will take...

Chapter 13: Regular Expressions [R]egular expression culture is a mess, and I share some of the blame for making it that way. Since my mother always told me to clean up my own messes, I suppose I'll have to do jus...

Chapter 14: Dynamic Programming We need a language that lets us scribble and smudge and smear, not a language where you have to sit with a teacup of types balanced on your knee and make polite conversation with a...

Chapter 15: Transactions The transaction notion is not a panacea. Rather, it is a convenience for a general class of applications There are probably many applications which will be developed only when the applicat...