C# in Depth

372INDEXarchitecture 275AreaComparer 105argument evaluation 189argument, parameter passing 53arithmetic 239Array 43array indexing 239ArrayList 5, 8, 46, 52comparisons with List 65, 73, 88, 96use with LINQ 289arrays 278, 360as reference types 49covariance 45covariance support 103implicit typing. See implicitly typed arraysinitialization 223ASCII 44AsEnumerable, DataTable extension method 335See also Standard Query Operators,AsEnumerableASP Classic 20See also Active Server Pages (ASP)ASP.NET 20, 26, 198AsParallel 349AsQueryable. See Standard Query Operators,AsQueryableAsReadOnly 98assemblies 225, 261extern aliases 196assembly reference 28AssemblyInfo.cs 203assignment 50–51of null to a nullable type variable 120assignments 242associations 316, 337asterisk 297AsXAttributes 340asynchronous code 178asynchronous pattern 81attorney 34, 38Attribute method 342Attribute suffix 201attributes 316Attributes method 342automatically implemented properties208–210, 235Average. See Standard Query Operators, Averageaxis methods 342Ayende 345Bback tick 93BackgroundWorker 41backward compatibility 253Base Class Libraries (BCL) 27base class library 207base type 191specifying for partial types 185BCL. See Base Class Libraries (BCL)BeginXXX/EndXXX pattern 81behavioradding using inheritance 255specifying with delegates 33behavioral pattern 161best practices 209, 274, 356better conversion 251Bill Gates 31binary operators 125BinaryExpression 239black box view of iterator blocks 167bloat of type responsibility 187blockanonymous methods 146lambda expressions 234restrictions of expression trees 242blogs 270, 272, 315, 345blueprints 68Booleanflags 115logic 127bounds of type variables 248boxing 53–54, 58, 89–90, 115, 119, 178in Java 110in Java 1.5 20of Nullable. See Nullable, boxing and unboxingbraces 147, 234breaking changes from C# 1 to C# 2 144buffer 257buffering 265, 281, 308bugsdue to lack of generics 65using Stream 257bulk delete 319businesscode 174layer 348logic 187requirements 269rules 130Button 139, 193byte, range of values 113bytecode 110ByValArray 201by-value argument. See parameter passingCC ω 21, 24, 33, 44C#definition of events 40evolution 4Licensed to Rhona Hadida