| |  | Copyright |
| | | Preface |
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| | How This Book Is Different |
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| | Who Should Read This Book? |
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| | Overview of Chapters |
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| | The Code Style Used in This Book |
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| | From the Authors to You |
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| | Acknowledgments |
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| | About the Authors |
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| | About the Technical Reviewers |
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| | | Part I.
C# Essentials |
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| | Chapter 1.
The .NET Framework |
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Section 1.1.
What Is .NET? |
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Section 1.2.
.NET Framework Terminology and Core Concepts |
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Section 1.3.
CLR and the JVM |
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Section 1.4.
Memory Management |
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Section 1.5.
Security Management |
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Section 1.6.
Exception Management |
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Section 1.7.
Overview of the .NET Framework Class Library |
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Section 1.8.
Summary |
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| | Chapter 2.
Starting with C# |
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Section 2.1.
The .NET SDK |
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Section 2.2.
Writing Your First C# Program |
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Section 2.3.
C# Performance |
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Section 2.4.
C# Tools |
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Section 2.5.
Summary |
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| | Chapter 3.
C# and Java: What Is the Difference? |
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Section 3.1.
Programming Platforms (.NET and Java) |
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Section 3.2.
Runtime Architecture |
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Section 3.3.
The OOP Model |
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Section 3.4.
Language Constructs, Syntax, and the API |
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Section 3.5.
Summary |
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| | Chapter 4.
Writing Objects |
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Section 4.1.
Object Creation |
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Section 4.2.
Classes |
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Section 4.3.
Constructors |
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Section 4.4.
Methods |
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Section 4.5.
Fields |
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Section 4.6.
Properties |
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Section 4.7.
Variable Scoping |
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Section 4.8.
Object Destruction |
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Section 4.9.
Summary |
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| | Chapter 5.
Understanding Inheritance and Polymorphism |
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Section 5.1.
Inheritance |
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Section 5.2.
Polymorphism and Virtual Methods |
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Section 5.3.
Exploring C# Polymorphism |
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Section 5.4.
Methods and Inheritance |
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Section 5.5.
Casting |
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Section 5.6.
Composition versus Inheritance |
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Section 5.7.
Summary |
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| | Chapter 6.
Implementing Interfaces |
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Section 6.1.
Basic Interfaces |
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Section 6.2.
Multiple Interfaces and Explicit Interface Declaration |
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Section 6.3.
Inheritance in Interfaces |
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Section 6.4.
The as Operator |
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Section 6.5.
Summary |
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| | Chapter 7.
Data Types |
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Section 7.1.
The Java Value Type |
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Section 7.2.
The Java Reference Type |
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Section 7.3.
The C# Value Type |
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Section 7.4.
The Built-in Value Types |
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Section 7.5.
The C# Reference Types |
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Section 7.6.
Boxing and Unboxing |
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Section 7.7.
Unsafe Code |
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Section 7.8.
Summary |
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Operators |
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Section 8.1.
Arithmetic Operators |
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Section 8.2.
Logical Operators |
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Section 8.3.
Bitwise Operators |
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Section 8.4.
String Concatenation Operators |
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Section 8.5.
The Increment and Decrement Operators |
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Section 8.6.
Shift Operators |
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Section 8.7.
Relational Operators |
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Section 8.8.
Assignment Operators |
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Section 8.9.
The Member Access (Dot) Operator |
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Section 8.10.
The Casting Operator |
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Section 8.11.
The Indexing Operator |
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Section 8.12.
The Conditional Operator |
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Section 8.13.
Object Creation Operator |
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Section 8.14.
Type Information Operators |
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Section 8.15.
Overflow Exception Control |
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Section 8.16.
Pointer Type Operators |
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Section 8.17.
Operator Precedence |
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Section 8.18.
Operator Overloading |
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Section 8.19.
Summary |
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| | Chapter 9.
Essential Control Flow |
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Section 9.1.
The if Statement |
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Section 9.2.
The while Loop |
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Section 9.3.
The do while Loop |
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Section 9.4.
The for Loop |
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Section 9.5.
The switch Statement |
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Section 9.6.
The foreach Statement |
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Section 9.7.
Jump Statements |
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Section 9.8.
Summary |
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| | Chapter 10.
Programming with Exceptions |
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Section 10.1.
Fundamentals of the try-catch-finally Construct |
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Section 10.2.
Custom Exceptions |
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Section 10.3.
Inheritance and Exceptions |
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Section 10.4.
CLR Exceptions |
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Section 10.5.
Design Considerations |
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Section 10.6.
Summary |
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| | Chapter 11.
Working with Arrays |
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Section 11.1.
Java versus C# Arrays |
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Section 11.2.
One-Dimensional Arrays |
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Section 11.3.
Multidimensional Arrays |
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Section 11.4.
Jagged Arrays |
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Section 11.5.
Copying Arrays |
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Section 11.6.
Arrays as Collections |
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Section 11.7.
Summary |
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| | Chapter 12.
Processing Strings |
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Section 12.1.
The System.String Class |
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Section 12.2.
Initializing Strings |
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Section 12.3.
The + Operator and Strings |
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Section 12.4.
Regular Expressions |
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Section 12.5.
Summary |
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Formatting Numbers, Strings, and Dates |
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Section 13.1.
Formatting |
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Section 13.2.
Number Formatting |
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Section 13.3.
Date and Time Formatting |
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Section 13.4.
Formatting Custom Objects |
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Section 13.5.
Parsing |
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Section 13.6.
Summary |
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Using Collections |
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Section 14.1.
The System.Collections Interfaces |
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Section 14.2.
The System.Collections Classes |
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Section 14.3.
Using the System.Collections Classes |
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Section 14.4.
Type-Safe Collections |
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Section 14.5.
Custom Collections |
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Section 14.6.
Summary |
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Working with the C# I/O API |
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Section 15.1.
Streams |
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Section 15.2.
The FileStream Class |
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Section 15.3.
The BufferedStream Class |
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Section 15.4.
The MemoryStream Class |
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Section 15.5.
The NetworkStream Class |
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Section 15.6.
Readers and Writers |
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Section 15.7.
Files and Directories |
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Section 15.8.
Serialization |
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Section 15.9.
Summary |
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Thread Programming |
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Section 16.1.
The System.Threading Namespace |
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Section 16.2.
Creating Threads Using the System.Threading.Thread Class |
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Section 16.3.
Stopping a Thread Safely in C# |
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Section 16.4.
Thread Synchronization |
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Section 16.5.
Interlocked Operations |
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Section 16.6.
Summary |
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Using C# Properties, Indexers, and Attributes |
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Section 17.1.
Properties |
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Section 17.2.
Indexers |
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Section 17.3.
Attributes |
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Section 17.4.
Summary |
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Delegates and Event Programming |
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Section 18.1.
Using Delegates |
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Section 18.2.
Multicasting |
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Section 18.3.
Event Programming |
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Section 18.4.
Summary |
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Advanced C# Topics |
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Accessing Databases |
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Section 19.1.
Inside ADO.NET |
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Section 19.2.
JDBC 2.0+ |
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Section 19.3.
Getting Started with ADO.NET |
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Section 19.4.
DataSets |
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Section 19.5.
Summary |
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| | Chapter 20.
Processing XML |
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Section 20.1.
XML Support in Java |
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Section 20.2.
XML and .NET |
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Section 20.3.
Reading and Writing XML |
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Section 20.4.
Using the DOM API in .NET |
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Section 20.5.
Summary |
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GUI Programming in C# |
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Section 21.1.
Choosing a GUI Library: Java or .NET? |
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Section 21.2.
Using the IDE to Develop a Small Application |
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Section 21.3.
Windows Forms, Component Controls, and Their Associated .NET Classes |
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Section 21.4.
Putting It All Together |
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Section 21.5.
Anchoring and Docking |
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Section 21.6.
Drawing with .NET GUI Classes |
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Section 21.7.
Summary |
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| | Chapter 22.
Reflection |
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Section 22.1.
The Core Reflection Classes |
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Section 22.2.
Browsing and Querying Members |
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Section 22.3.
Invoking Methods and Setting Fields and Properties |
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Section 22.4.
Generating Dynamic IL Using Reflection Emit |
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Section 22.5.
Summary |
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Assemblies, Application Configuration, and Process Management |
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Section 23.1.
The .NET Assembly |
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Section 23.2.
Creating an Assembly |
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Section 23.3.
Programmatic Access to Assemblies |
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Section 23.4.
Versioning |
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Section 23.5.
Application Configuration |
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Section 23.6.
Process Management |
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Section 23.7.
Summary |
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| | Appendix Java and C# API Comparison |
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Section A.1.
The java.lang Package |
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Section A.2.
The java.util Package |
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Section A.3.
The java.io Package |
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Section A.4.
The java.sql Package |
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Section A.5.
The java.text Package |
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Section A.6.
The org.w3c.dom Package |
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Section A.7.
The javax.swing Package |
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Section A.8.
The java.awt Package |
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