Professional C# 4.0 and .Net 4

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This book starts by reviewing the overall architecture of .NET in order to give you the background you need to be able to write managed code. After that, the book is divided into a number of sections that cover both the C# language and its application in a variety of areas. Part I: The C# Language gives a good grounding in the C# language for experienced programmers. You start by looking at basic syntax and data types. Objects, types, inheritance, generics, arrays, tuples, operators, casts, delegates, lambdas, events, strings, regular expressions, collections, Language Integrated, Query (LINQ), Dynamic Language Extensions, memory management, pointers, reflection, errors, and exceptions are all covered. Part II: Visual Studio looks at Visual Studio 2010 (the best way to use the tool to build applications based on the .NET Framework 4) and deploying your projects. Part III: Foundation looks at .NET assemblies, instrumentation, security, threading, tasks, synchronization, localization, System.Transactions, networking, interop, XAML, Managed Extensibility Framework, Manipulating Files and the Registry, transactions, building Windows services, and generating your own libraries as assemblies. Part IV: Data covers accessing databases with ADO.NET, ADO.NET Entity Framework, data services, support in .NET for XML, and the .NET features of SQL Server 2008. Part V: Presentation shows how to build applications based on the Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight, and covers writing components that will run on web sites. It also has coverage on building Windows Forms applications in as well as ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC. Part VI: Communication covers services for platform-independent communication using the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). With Message Queuing, asynchronous disconnected communication is shown. This section looks at utilizing the Windows Workflow Foundation 4, peer to peer networking, and creating syndication feeds. WroxBooks Professional C# 4 and .NET 4 About the Authors Contents Introduction THE SIGNIFICANCE OF .NET AND C# ADVANTAGES OF .NET WHAT'S NEW IN THE .NET FRAMEWORK 4 ASP.NET MVC WHERE C# FITS IN WHAT YOU NEED TO WRITE AND RUN C# CODE WHAT THIS BOOK COVERS CONVENTIONS SOURCE CODE ERRATA P2P.WROX.COM Part I: The C# Language Chapter 1: .NET Architecture THE RELATIONSHIP OF C# TO .NET THE COMMON LANGUAGE RUNTIME A CLOSER LOOK AT INTERMEDIATE LANGUAGE ASSEMBLIES .NET FRAMEWORK CLASSES NAMESPACES CREATING .NET APPLICATIONS USING C# THE ROLE OF C# IN THE .NET ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE SUMMARY Chapter 2: Core C# YOUR FIRST C# PROGRAM VARIABLES PREDEFINED DATA TYPES FLOW CONTROL ENUMERATIONS NAMESPACES THE MAIN() METHOD MORE ON COMPILING C# FILES CONSOLE I/O USING COMMENTS THE C# PREPROCESSOR DIRECTIVES C# PROGRAMMING GUIDELINES SUMMARY Chapter 3: Objects and Types CLASSES AND STRUCTS CLASSES ANONYMOUS TYPES STRUCTS PARTIAL CLASSES STATIC CLASSES THE OBJECT CLASS EXTENSION METHODS SUMMARY Chapter 4: Inheritance TYPES OF INHERITANCE IMPLEMENTATION INHERITANCE MODIFIERS INTERFACES SUMMARY Chapter 5: Generics GENERICS OVERVIEW CREATING GENERIC CLASSES GENERICS FEATURES GENERIC INTERFACES GENERIC METHODS SUMMARY Chapter 6: Arrays and Tuples SIMPLE ARRAYS MULTIDIMENSIONAL ARRAYS JAGGED ARRAYS ARRAY CLASS ARRAYS AS PARAMETERS ENUMERATIONS TUPLES STRUCTURAL COMPARISON SUMMARY Chapter 7: Operators and Casts OPERATORS TYPE SAFETY COMPARING OBJECTS FOR EQUALITY OPERATOR OVERLOADING USER-DEFINED CASTS SUMMARY Chapter 8: Delegates, Lambdas, and Events DELEGATES LAMBDA EXPRESSIONS EVENTS SUMMARY Chapter 9: Strings and Regular Expressions EXAMINING SYSTEM.STRING REGULAR EXPRESSIONS SUMMARY Chapter 10: Collections COLLECTION INTERFACES AND TYPES LISTS QUEUE STACK LINKED LIST SORTED LIST DICTIONARIES SETS OBSERVABLE COLLECTION BIT ARRAYS CONCURRENT COLLECTIONS PERFORMANCE SUMMARY Chapter 11: Language Integrated Query LINQ OVERVIEW STANDARD QUERY OPERATORS PARALLEL LINQ EXPRESSION TREES LINQ PROVIDERS SUMMARY Chapter 12: Dynamic Language Extensions DYNAMIC LANGUAGE RUNTIME THE DYNAMIC TYPE HOSTING THE DLR SCRIPTRUNTIME HOSTING THE DLR SCRIPTRUNTIME DYNAMICOBJECT AND EXPANDOOBJECT SUMMARY Chapter 13: Memory Management and Pointers MEMORY MANAGEMENT UNDER THE HOOD FREEING UNMANAGED RESOURCES UNSAFE CODE SUMMARY Chapter 14: Reflection CUSTOM ATTRIBUTES USING REFLECTION SUMMARY Chapter 15: Errors and Exceptions EXCEPTION CLASSES CATCHING EXCEPTIONS USER-DEFINED EXCEPTION CLASSES SUMMARY Part II: Visual Studio Chapter 16: Visual Studio 2010 WORKING WITH VISUAL STUDIO 2010 REFACTORING TOOLS MULTI-TARGETING THE .NET FRAMEWORK WPF, WCF, WF, AND MORE SUMMARY Chapter 17: Deployment PLANNING FOR DEPLOYMENT SIMPLE DEPLOYMENT OPTIONS VISUAL STUDIO 2010 SETUP AND DEPLOYMENT PROJECTS CLICKONCE VISUAL STUDIO 2010 EDITORS SUMMARY Part III: Foundation Chapter 18: Assemblies WHAT ARE ASSEMBLIES? CREATING ASSEMBLIES APPLICATION DOMAINS SHARED ASSEMBLIES CONFIGURING .NET APPLICATIONS VERSIONING SUMMARY Chapter 19: Instrumentation CODE CONTRACTS TRACING EVENT LOGGING PERFORMANCE MONITORING SUMMARY Chapter 20: Threads, Tasks, and Synchronization OVERVIEW ASYNCHRONOUS DELEGATES THE THREAD CLASS THREAD POOLS TASKS PARALLEL CLASS CANCELLATION FRAMEWORK THREADING ISSUES SYNCHRONIZATION TIMERS EVENT-BASED ASYNCHRONOUS PATTERN SUMMARY Chapter 21: Security AUTHENTICATION AND AUTHORIZATION ENCRYPTION ACCESS CONTROL TO RESOURCES CODE ACCESS SECURITY DISTRIBUTING CODE USING CERTIFICATES SUMMARY Chapter 22: Localization NAMESPACE SYSTEM.GLOBALIZATION RESOURCES WINDOWS FORMS LOCALIZATION USING VISUAL STUDIO LOCALIZATION WITH ASP.NET LOCALIZATION WITH WPF A CUSTOM RESOURCE READER CREATING CUSTOM CULTURES SUMMARY Chapter 23: System.Transactions OVERVIEW DATABASE AND ENTITY CLASSES TRADITIONAL TRANSACTIONS SYSTEM.TRANSACTIONS ISOLATION LEVEL CUSTOM RESOURCE MANAGERS TRANSACTIONS WITH WINDOWS 7 AND WINDOWS SERVER 2008 SUMMARY Chapter 24: Networking THE WEBCLIENT CLASS WEBREQUEST AND WEBRESPONSE CLASSES DISPLAYING OUTPUT AS AN HTML PAGE UTILITY CLASSES LOWER-LEVEL PROTOCOLS SUMMARY Chapter 25: Windows Services WHAT IS A WINDOWS SERVICE? WINDOWS SERVICES ARCHITECTURE CREATING A WINDOWS SERVICE PROGRAM MONITORING AND CONTROLLING WINDOWS SERVICES TROUBLESHOOTING AND EVENT LOGGING SUMMARY Chapter 26: Interop .NET AND COM USING A COM COMPONENT FROM A .NET CLIENT USING A .NET COMPONENT FROM A COM CLIENT PLATFORM INVOKE SUMMARY Chapter 27: Core XAML OVERVIEW DEPENDENCY PROPERTIES BUBBLING AND TUNNELING EVENTS ATTACHED PROPERTIES MARKUP EXTENSIONS READING AND WRITING XAML SUMMARY Chapter 28: Managed Extensibility Framework MEF ARCHITECTURE CONTRACTS EXPORTS IMPORTS CONTAINERS AND EXPORT PROVIDERS CATALOGS SUMMARY Chapter 29: Manipulating Files and the Registry MANAGING THE FILE SYSTEM MOVING, COPYING, AND DELETING FILES READING AND WRITING TO FILES MAPPED-MEMORY FILES READING DRIVE INFORMATION FILE SECURITY READING AND WRITING TO THE REGISTRY READING AND WRITING TO ISOLATED STORAGE SUMMARY Part IV: Data Chapter 30: Core ADO.NET ADO.NET OVERVIEW USING DATABASE CONNECTIONS COMMANDS FAST DATA ACCESS: THE DATA READER MANAGING DATA AND RELATIONSHIPS: THE DATASET CLASS XML SCHEMAS: GENERATING CODE WITH XSD POPULATING A DATASET PERSISTING DATASET CHANGES WORKING WITH ADO.NET SUMMARY Chapter 31: ADO.NET Entity Framework OVERVIEW OF THE ADO.NET ENTITY FRAMEWORK ENTITY FRAMEWORK MAPPING ENTITY CLIENT ENTITIES OBJECT CONTEXT RELATIONSHIPS OBJECT QUERY UPDATES LINQ TO ENTITIES SUMMARY Chapter 32: Data Services OVERVIEW CUSTOM HOSTING WITH CLR OBJECTS HTTP CLIENT APPLICATION QUERIES WITH URLS USING WCF DATA SERVICES WITH THE ADO.NET ENTITY FRAMEWORK SUMMARY Chapter 33: Manipulating XML XML STANDARDS SUPPORT IN .NET INTRODUCING THE SYSTEM.XML NAMESPACE USING SYSTEM.XML CLASSES READING AND WRITING STREAMED XML USING THE DOM IN .NET USING XPATHNAVIGATORS XML AND ADO.NET SERIALIZING OBJECTS IN XML LINQ TO XML AND .NET WORKING WITH DIFFERENT XML OBJECTS USING LINQ TO QUERY XML DOCUMENTS MORE QUERY TECHNIQUES FOR XML DOCUMENTS SUMMARY Chapter 34: .NET Programming with SQL Server .NET RUNTIME HOST MICROSOFT.SQLSERVER.SERVER USER-DEFINED TYPES USER-DEFINED AGGREGATES STORED PROCEDURES USER-DEFINED FUNCTIONS TRIGGERS XML DATA TYPE SUMMARY Part V: Presentation Chapter 35: Core WPF OVERVIEW SHAPES GEOMETRY TRANSFORMATION BRUSHES CONTROLS LAYOUT STYLES AND RESOURCES TRIGGERS TEMPLATES ANIMATIONS VISUAL STATE MANAGER 3-D SUMMARY Chapter 36: Business Applications with WPF DATA BINDING COMMANDING TREEVIEW DATAGRID SUMMARY Chapter 37: Creating Documents with WPF TEXT ELEMENTS FLOW DOCUMENTS FIXED DOCUMENTS XPS DOCUMENTS PRINTING SUMMARY Chapter 38: Silverlight COMPARING WPF AND SILVERLIGHT CREATING A SILVERLIGHT PROJECT NAVIGATION NETWORKING BROWSER INTEGRATION SILVERLIGHT OUT-OF-BROWSER APPLICATIONS SUMMARY Chapter 39: Windows Forms CREATING A WINDOWS FORMS APPLICATION CONTROL CLASS STANDARD CONTROLS AND COMPONENTS FORMS SUMMARY Chapter 40: Core ASP.NET ASP.NET INTRODUCTION ASP.NET WEB FORMS ADO.NET AND DATA BINDING APPLICATION CONFIGURATION SUMMARY Chapter 41: ASP.NET Features USER AND CUSTOM CONTROLS MASTER PAGES SITE NAVIGATION SECURITY THEMES WEB PARTS ASP.NET AJAX WHAT IS AJAX? SUMMARY Chapter 42: ASP.NET Dynamic Data and MVC ROUTING DYNAMIC DATA MVC SUMMARY Part VI: Communication Chapter 43: Windows Communications Foundation WCF OVERVIEW SIMPLE SERVICE AND CLIENT SERVICE IMPLEMENTATION BINDING HOSTING CLIENTS DUPLEX COMMUNICATION SUMMARY Chapter 44: Windows Workflow Foundation 4 HELLO WORLD ACTIVITIES CUSTOM ACTIVITIES WORKFLOWS SUMMARY Chapter 45: Peer-to-Peer Networking PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKING OVERVIEW MICROSOFT WINDOWS PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKING BUILDING P2P APPLICATIONS SUMMARY Chapter 46: Message Queuing OVERVIEW MESSAGE QUEUING PRODUCTS MESSAGE QUEUING ARCHITECTURE MESSAGE QUEUING ADMINISTRATIVE TOOLS PROGRAMMING MESSAGE QUEUING COURSE ORDER APPLICATION RECEIVING RESULTS TRANSACTIONAL QUEUES MESSAGE QUEUING WITH WCF MESSAGE QUEUE INSTALLATION SUMMARY Chapter 47: Syndication OVERVIEW OF SYSTEM.SERVICEMODEL.SYNDICATION READING SYNDICATION FEEDS SAMPLE OFFERING SYNDICATION FEEDS SAMPLE SUMMARY Appendix: Guidelines for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 OVERVIEW APPLICATION RECOVERY USER ACCOUNT CONTROL DIRECTORY STRUCTURE NEW CONTROLS AND DIALOGS SUMMARY Index Chapter 48: Graphics with GDI+ UNDERSTANDING DRAWING PRINCIPLES MEASURING COORDINATES AND AREAS DRAWING SCROLLABLE WINDOWS WORLD, PAGE, AND DEVICE COORDINATES COLORS PENS AND BRUSHES DRAWING SHAPES AND LINES DISPLAYING IMAGES ISSUES WHEN MANIPULATING IMAGES DRAWING TEXT SIMPLE TEXT EXAMPLE FONTS AND FONT FAMILIES ENUMERATING FONT FAMILIES EXAMPLE EDITING A TEXT DOCUMENT: THE CAPSEDITOR EXAMPLE PRINTING SUMMARY Chapter 49: Visual Studio Tools for Office VSTO OVERVIEW VSTO PROJECT FUNDAMENTALS BUILDING VSTO SOLUTIONS EXAMPLE APPLICATION SUMMARY Chapter 50: Managed Add-In Framework MAF ARCHITECTURE ADD-IN SAMPLE SUMMARY Chapter 51: Enterprise Services USING ENTERPRISE SERVICES CREATING A SIMPLE COM+ APPLICATION DEPLOYMENT COMPONENT SERVICES EXPLORER CLIENT APPLICATION TRANSACTIONS SAMPLE APPLICATION INTEGRATING WCF AND ENTERPRISE SERVICES SUMMARY Chapter 52: Directory Services THE ARCHITECTURE OF ACTIVE DIRECTORY ADMINISTRATION TOOLS FOR ACTIVE DIRECTORY PROGRAMMING ACTIVE DIRECTORY SEARCHING FOR USER OBJECTS ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT DSML SUMMARY Chapter 53: C#, Visual Basic, C++/CLI, and F# NAMESPACES DEFINING TYPES METHODS STATIC MEMBERS ARRAYS CONTROL STATEMENTS LOOPS EXCEPTION HANDLING INHERITANCE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT DELEGATES EVENTS GENERICS LINQ QUERIES C++/CLI MIXING NATIVE AND MANAGED CODE C# SPECIFICS SUMMARY Chapter 54: .NET Remoting WHY USE .NET REMOTING? .NET REMOTING TERMS EXPLAINED CONTEXTS REMOTE OBJECTS, CLIENTS,AND SERVERS .NET REMOTING ARCHITECTURE CONFIGURATION FILES HOSTING SERVERS IN ASP.NET CLASSES, INTERFACES, AND SOAPSUDS ASYNCHRONOUS REMOTING SECURITY WITH .NET REMOTING REMOTING AND EVENTS CALL CONTEXTS SUMMARY Chapter 55: Web Services with ASP.NET SOAP WSDL WEB SERVICES EXTENDING THE EVENT - BOOKING EXAMPLE EXCHANGING DATA USING SOAP HEADERS SUMMARY Chapter 56: LINQ to SQL LINQ TO SQL USING VISUAL STUDIO 2010 HOW OBJECTS MAP TO LINQ OBJECTS WORKING WITHOUT THE O/R DESIGNER CUSTOM OBJECTS AND THE O/R DESIGNER QUERYING THE DATABASE STORED PROCEDURES SUMMARY Chapter 57: Windows Workflow Foundation 3.0 HELLO WORLD ACTIVITIES CUSTOM ACTIVITIES WORKFLOWS THE WORKFLOW RUNTIME WORKFLOW SERVICES INTEGRATION WITH WINDOWS COMMUNICATION FOUNDATION HOSTING WORKFLOWS THE WORKFLOW DESIGNER MOVING FROM WF 3.X TO WF 4 SUMMARY