a0025 professional c 2008 wrox mar 2008 morebook vn 8281

Professional

C# 2008
Christian Nagel
Bill Evjen
Jay Glynn
Morgan Skinner
Karli Watson

Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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Professional

C# 2008
Acknowledgments .............................................................................................................. xiii
Introduction .......................................................................................................................xlvii

Part I: The C# Language
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1: .NET Architecture ..................................................................................................3
2: C# Basics ...........................................................................................................25
3: Objects and Types ...............................................................................................75
4: Inheritance ........................................................................................................101
5: Arrays ...............................................................................................................121
6: Operators and Casts ..........................................................................................141
7: Delegates and Events ........................................................................................177
8: Strings and Regular Expressions ........................................................................203
9: Generics ...........................................................................................................223
10: Collections ......................................................................................................247
11: Language Integrated Query ..............................................................................297
12: Memory Management and Pointers ..................................................................329
13: Reflection .......................................................................................................357
14: Errors and Exceptions ......................................................................................377

Part II: Visual Studio
Chapter 15: Visual Studio 2008 ..........................................................................................401

Chapter 16: Deployment .....................................................................................................443

Part III: Base Class Libraries
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Assemblies ......................................................................................................469
Tracing and Events ..........................................................................................509
Threading and Synchronization .........................................................................533
Security ..........................................................................................................583
Localization .....................................................................................................639
Transactions ...................................................................................................679
Windows Services ...........................................................................................715
Interoperability ................................................................................................749
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Part IV: Data
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25: Manipulating Files and the Registry .................................................................791
26: Data Access ....................................................................................................845
27: LINQ to SQL .....................................................................................................895
28: Manipulating XML............................................................................................921
29: LINQ to XML ....................................................................................................967
30:.NET Programming with SQLServer ....................................................................985

Part V: Presentation
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Windows Forms .............................................................................................1017
Data Binding .................................................................................................1061
Graphics with GDI+ ........................................................................................1093
Windows Presentation Foundation ..................................................................1149
Advanced WPF ..............................................................................................1199
Add-Ins .........................................................................................................1251
ASP.NET Pages ..............................................................................................1273
ASP.NET Development ...................................................................................1311
ASP.NET AJAX ...............................................................................................1355
Visual Studio Tools for Office .........................................................................1385

Part VI: Communication
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Accessing the Internet ..................................................................................1423
Windows Communication Foundation .............................................................1455
Windows Workflow Foundation .......................................................................1487
Enterprise Services ........................................................................................1527
Message Queuing ..........................................................................................1555
Directory Services .........................................................................................1587
Peer-to-Peer Networking ................................................................................1625
Syndication ...................................................................................................1643

Part VII: Appendices
Appendix A: ADO.NET Entity Framework ............................................................................1655
Appendix B: C#, Visual Basic, and C++/CLI ......................................................................1681
Appendix C: Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 ......................................................1711
Index ...............................................................................................................................1731

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