CLR via C# 3rd Edition

Foreword; Introduction; Who This Book Is For; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Support for This Book; We Want to Hear from You; Part I: CLR Basics; Chapter 1: The CLR's Execution Model; 1.1 Compiling Source Code into Managed Modules; 1.2 Combining Managed Modules into Assemblies; 1.3 Loading the Common Language Runtime; 1.4 Executing your Assembly's Code; 1.5 The Native Code Generator Tool: NGen.exe; 1.6 The Framework Class Library; 1.7 The Common Type System; 1.8 The Common Language Specification; 1.9 Interoperability with Unmanaged Code; Chapter 2: Building, Packaging, Deploying, and Administering Applications and Types; 2.1 .NET Framework Deployment Goals; 2.2 Building Types into a Module; 2.3 A Brief Look at Metadata; 2.4 Combining Modules to Form an Assembly; 2.5 Assembly Version Resource Information; 2.6 Culture; 2.7 Simple Application Deployment (Privately Deployed Assemblies); 2.8 Simple Administrative Control (Configuration); Chapter 3: Shared Assemblies and Strongly Named Assemblies; 3.1 Two Kinds of Assemblies, Two Kinds of Deployment; 3.2 Giving an Assembly a Strong Name; 3.3 The Global Assembly Cache; 3.4 Building an Assembly That References a Strongly Named Assembly; 3.5 Strongly Named Assemblies Are Tamper-Resistant; 3.6 Delayed Signing; 3.7 Privately Deploying Strongly Named Assemblies; 3.8 How the Runtime Resolves Type References; 3.9 Advanced Administrative Control (Configuration); Part II: Designing Types; Chapter 4: Type Fundamentals; 4.1 All Types Are Derived from System.Object; 4.2 Casting Between Types; 4.3 Namespaces and Assemblies; 4.4 How Things Relate at Runtime; Chapter 5: Primitive, Reference, and Value Types; 5.1 Programming Language Primitive Types; 5.2 Reference Types and Value Types; 5.3 Boxing and Unboxing Value Types; 5.4 Object Hash Codes; 5.5 The dynamic Primitive Type; Chapter 6: Type and Member Basics; 6.1 The Different Kinds of Type Members; 6.2 Type Visibility; 6.3 Member Accessibility; 6.4 Static Classes; 6.5 Partial Classes, Structures, and Interfaces; 6.6 Components, Polymorphism, and Versioning; Chapter 7: Constants and Fields; 7.1 Constants; 7.2 Fields; Chapter 8: Methods; 8.1 Instance Constructors and Classes (Reference Types); 8.2 Instance Constructors and Structures (Value Types); 8.3 Type Constructors; 8.4 Operator Overload Methods; 8.5 Conversion Operator Methods; 8.6 Extension Methods; 8.7 Partial Methods; Chapter 9: Parameters; 9.1 Optional and Named Parameters; 9.2 Implicitly Typed Local Variables; 9.3 Passing Parameters by Reference to a Method; 9.4 Passing a Variable Number of Arguments to a Method; 9.5 Parameter and Return Type Guidelines; 9.6 Const-ness; Chapter 10: Properties; 10.1 Parameterless Properties; 10.2 Parameterful Prope...

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