C# Class Design Handbook: Coding Effective Classes

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Richard Conway started programming BASIC with the ZX81 at an early age, later graduating to using BASIC and 6502 assembly language, COMAL, and Pascal for the BBC B and Archimedes RISC machines. He is an independent software consultant who lives and works in London. He has been using Microsoft technologies for many years and has architected and built enterprise systems for IBM, Merrill Lynch, and Reuters. He has focused his development on Windows DNA including various tools and languages, such as COM+, VB, XML, C++, J++, BizTalk and, more recently, data warehousing. He has been actively involved in EAP trials with Microsoft for .NET My Services and the .NET Compact Framework. His special area of interest is network security and cryptography. Richard is a contributor to both C# Today and ASP Today, and he is involved in a product development and consultancy alliance (http://www.vertexion.co.uk) specializing in data warehousing and security products. Front Matter....Pages N2-vi Introduction....Pages 1-5 Defining Types....Pages 7-53 Type Members....Pages 55-82 Methods....Pages 85-123 Properties and Operators....Pages 125-172 Constructors and the Object Lifecycle....Pages 175-212 Events and Delegates....Pages 215-258 Inheritance and Polymorphism....Pages 261-295 Code Organization and Metadata....Pages 297-347 Back Matter....Pages 349-365