This chapter is all about making your own objects as useful and versatile as possible. In many cases, this means implementing the standard interfaces that .NET provides or simply overriding base cl...

This chapter looks at the new features added into C# 4.0 that combine to improve code readability and extend your ability to leverage LINQ to Object queries over dynamic data sources.

This chapter discusses a myriad of stability issues that can surface in an application when the heap is used in a nonconventional fashion. Although the stack and the heap are managed very different...

Data normalization is probably one of the most talked-about aspects of database modeling. Before building your data model, you must answer a few questions about normalization. These questions inc...

In this chapter, you will learn What Is a Set, Anyway,Operations on Sets, Intersection, Difference, Union and SQL Set Operations.

The C# language has its roots in C++, Visual Basic, and Java. Both C# and VB.Net use the same libraries and compile to the same underlying code. Both are managed languages with garbage collection o...

This chapter rounds out your introduction to the core aspects of the C# language by examining a number of advanced (but extremely useful) syntactic constructs. To begin, you learn how to construct ...

The properties and behaviors of some common collection types,How collections enable us to model very sophisticated real-world concepts or situations,How we can define our own collection types

IN THE COURSE OF DEVELOPING an application, it is quite typical to have core functionality contained in methods that are invoked by other specialized methods.

This Chapter will introduce you to C#. You will learn how to write and compile C# programs, C# syntaxes, data types, control flow, classes and their members, inter-faces, arrays, and exception hand...