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.

• 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

• A searchable electronic version of the book
• Sample code in C#

Contents

• PART I LAYING THE GROUNDWORK
• 1 Fundamentals of Object-Oriented Programming
• 2 Introducing Microsoft .NET
• 3 Hello, C#

• PART II C# CLASS FUNDAMENTALS
• 4 The Type System
• 5 Classes
• 6 Methods
• 7 Properties, Arrays, and Indexers
• 8 Attributes
• 9 Interfaces

• PART III WRITING CODE
• 10 Expressions and Operators
• 11 Program Flow Control
• 12 Error Handling with Exceptions
• 13 Operator Overloading and User-Defined Conversions
• 14 Delegates and Event Handlers

• PART IV ADVANCED C#
• 15 Multithreaded Programming
• 16 Querying Metadata with Reflection
• 17 Interoperating with Unmanaged Code 345
• 18 Working with Assemblies