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Index

Symbols

!= (inequality operator)

comparing pointers with, Solution
overriding, Discussion, Discussion
Set class, Solution, Discussion

# (comment character), Solution

#define preprocessor directive, Solution, Discussion

#elif preprocessor directive, Solution, Discussion

#if preprocessor directive, Solution, Discussion

#undef preprocessor directive, Solution, Discussion

& (bitwise AND operator), Discussion, Discussion, Discussion, Solution, Discussion

' (single quotes), on command line, Discussion

( ) (cast operator), Problem

( ) (parentheses)

balanced, Problem
in equations, Solution

* (wildcard character), Discussion

*= (assignment operator), Problem, See Also

+= (assignment operator), Problem, See Also

- (hyphen)

in regular expression patterns, Solution
on command line, Discussion

-= (assignment operator), Problem, See Also

.dmp file extension, Problem

.NET web services, Windows NT 4.0 not supporting, What You Need to Use This Book

/ (slash), on command line, Discussion

// (comment characters), Solution

//... (omitted C# code in examples), Conventions Used in This Book

/= (assignment operator), Problem, See Also

/checked compiler switch, Discussion

/main compiler switch, Discussion

; (semicolon), on command line, Discussion

< (less than operator), Solution

 (omitted XML code in examples), Conventions Used in This Book

<= (less than or equal operator), Solution

<> (angle brackets), balanced, Problem

== (equality operator)

comparing pointers with, Solution
comparing strings with, Discussion
overriding, Discussion, Discussion
Set class, Solution, Discussion

> (greater than operator), Solution

>= (greater than or equal operator), Solution

?: (conditional operator), Problem, See Also

?: (ternary operator), Discussion

?? (logical AND operator), Problem, See Also

[] (square brackets), balanced, Problem

(backslash)

in regular expression patterns, Solution
on command line, Discussion

(linefeed character), Discussion

(linefeed character, Macintosh), Discussion

^ (bitwise XOR operator), Discussion, Solution, Discussion

^ (caret), on command line, Discussion

{} (braces), balanced, Problem

| (bitwise OR operator), Discussion, Discussion, Discussion, Solution, Discussion

|| (logical OR operator), Problem, See Also

~ (bitwise complement operator), Problem

“Safe Thread Synchronization” (Richter), Discussion

“” (double quotes), on command line, Discussion

A

abstract base classes, implementing polymorphism with, Problem, Discussion

AccessException exception, Solution

Acos method, Math class, Solution

adapter design pattern, Solution, Discussion, See Also

Add method

MultiMap class, Solution, Discussion
Set class, Solution
SortedList class, Discussion, See Also

AddNode method

BinaryTree class, Solution
BinaryTreeNode class, Solution, Discussion
NTreeNode class, Solution, Discussion

AddProxyInfoToRequest method, Solution

AddRoot method, NTree class, Solution, Discussion

AddUniqueNode method, BinaryTreeNode class, Solution, Discussion

AllFlags privilege, Discussion

AllocateDataSlot method, Thread class, Solution, Discussion

AllocateNamedDataSlot method, Thread class, Solution, Discussion

Allocation Profiler, See Also

AmbiguousMatchException exception, Solution

angle brackets (<>), balanced, Problem

angles

calculating one angle of triangle, Problem
converting degrees to radians, Problem
converting radians to degrees, Problem

AppDomainUnloadedException exception, Solution

Append method, StringBuilder class, Discussion

AppendText method

File class, Discussion
FileInfo class, Discussion

AppendText method, FileInfo class, Discussion

AppEvents class, Solution

application

command-line parameters for, Problem, See Also
conditionally compiling blocks of, Problem, See Also
data for, storing securely, Problem, See Also
event logs for (see event logs)
performance counters for, Problem, See Also, Problem, See Also
persisting collections between sessions, Problem, See Also
processes not responding for, determining, Problem, Discussion
production, trace output from, Problem, Discussion
selective debugging and tracing for, Problem, See Also
versioning with multiple entry points, Problem, See Also
versions of modules, comparing, Problem, See Also

application configuration file

selecting components to trace in, Solution, Discussion
selecting level of tracing in, Solution, Discussion
turning on tracing with, Solution, Discussion

ApplicationException exception, Discussion, Solution

Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming (Richter), See Also

AppSpecificSwitch class, Solution

AppSpecificSwitchLevel enumeration, Solution

arccosine function, Discussion

arcsine function, Discussion

arctangent function, Discussion

ArgumentException exception, Discussion, Discussion, Exception Handling, Solution, Discussion, Solution, Discussion

ArgumentNullException exception, Discussion, Discussion, Exception Handling, Solution, Discussion, Discussion, Solution, Discussion, Discussion

ArgumentOutOfRangeException exception, Solution, Exception Handling, Solution, Discussion, Solution

ArithmeticException exception, Solution

Array class

BinarySearch method, Problem, See Also
Copy method, Discussion
Reverse method, Solution
Sort method, Problem, See Also

ArrayList class, Collections

(see also collections)
as values in Hashtable, Problem, See Also
BinarySearch method, Problem, See Also, Problem, Problem, Discussion
Contains method, Problem
controlling additions to, through attributes, Problem, See Also
counting occurrences of an object type in, Problem, See Also
Hashtable keys or values stored in, Solution
maintaining sort when adding or modifying elements, Problem, See Also
persisting between application sessions, Problem, See Also
retrieving all instances of an object type, Problem, See Also
snapshot of, Problem
Sort method, Problem, See Also

ArrayListEx class, Solution, Solution, Discussion

arrays, Collections

byte arrays, breaking large numbers into, Problem

displaying values as a delimited string, Problem

exceptions for, Discussion

fixed-size, Collections, Problem

inserting elements into, Problem, See Also

jagged, Collections

navigating with pointer, Solution
reversing, Problem

multidimensional, Collections, Solution

navigating with pointers, Problem, See Also

of objects, nested, Problem, See Also

of pointers, Problem, See Also

of pointers to unknown types, Problem, See Also

pointers to, manipulating, Problem

removing elements from, Problem, See Also

returning pointers to an element in, Problem, See Also

reversing order of elements in, Problem, See Also

searching class or structure objects in, Problem, See Also

snapshots of, Problem

sorting class or structure objects in, Problem, See Also

StackTrace class acting as, Problem, See Also

swapping two elements in, Problem

two-dimensional, reversing, Problem

types of, Collections

ArrayTypeMismatchException exception, Discussion, Solution

ArrayUtilities class, Solution

as operator

casting with, Problem, See Also
when to use, Problem

ASCII values, byte array of, converting to a string, Solution

ASCIIEncoding class

GetBytes method, Solution
GetString method, Discussion

Asin method, Match class, Solution

ASP.NET cache, Solution

ASP.NET, Windows NT 4.0 not supporting, What You Need to Use This Book

ASPNET user account, performance counters prevented by, Discussion, Discussion

assemblies

access to types in, controlling, Problem, See Also

assemblies imported by, listing, Problem, See Also

attack surface of, minimizing, Problem

CLSCompliantAttribute for, Problem

digital signature for, Solution

exported types of, listing, Problem

inheritance hierarchies of types in, Problem, See Also

loading, exceptions generated by, Problem

malicious modifications to, preventing, Problem, See Also

members in

finding, Problem, See Also
retrieving filtered list of, Problem, See Also

nested types in, finding, Problem, See Also

permissions for, verifying, Problem, See Also

reflection and, Reflection

regular expressions compiled into, Solution, Discussion

serializable types in, finding, Problem, See Also

strong name for, Solution

subclasses of types in, Problem, See Also

Assembly class

GetExportedTypes method, Solution
GetReferencedAssemblies method, Solution, Discussion
LoadFrom method, Problem

assembly registration tool, Solution

Assert method

CodeAccessSecurity class, Solution, Discussion
Debug class, Discussion

assignment operators, overloading, Problem, See Also

Associative Law, Solution

asterisk (*) as wildcard character, Discussion

AsymmetricAlgorithm class, Clear method, Solution

AsyncAction class, Solution, Solution, Solution, Solution

asynchronous delegates

exceptions thrown by, Problem
notification of completion, Problem, See Also
polling, Problem, See Also
synchronous delegates converted to, Problem, See Also
timing out, Problem, See Also

Atan method, Math class, Solution

attributes

custom, exceptions for, Discussion
of files, Solution, Discussion, Solution

Attributes property, DirectoryInfo class, Solution

Attributes property, FileInfo class, Solution, Discussion

AverageCount64 counter, Discussion

AverageTimer32 counter, Discussion

B

backslash ()

in regular expression patterns, Solution
on command line, Discussion

BadImageFormatException exception, Solution, Solution

Balance class, Solution

base 10, converting to, from another base, Problem

base classes, overridden methods in, listing for derived class, Problem, See Also

Base64 data

decoding into byte array, Problem
encoding byte array as, Problem

Base64DecodeString method, Solution

Base64EncodeBytes method, Solution

BeginInvoke method, Discussion, Solution

BetterRandomString method, Solution

big-endian format, Discussion

binary data

decoding Base64 data into, Problem
encoding as a string, Problem

binary trees, Problem, See Also

BinaryReader class, Solution, Discussion

PeekChar method, Discussion
Read method, Discussion

BinarySearch method

Array class, Problem, See Also
ArrayList class, Problem, See Also, Problem, Problem, Discussion
PriorityQueue class, Solution
Set class, Solution

BinarySearchAll method, Solution

BinarySearchCountAll method, Solution

BinaryTree class, Solution, Discussion

BinaryTreeNode class, Solution, Discussion

BinaryWriter class, Solution, Discussion, Discussion

BindingFlags enumeration, Problem, Solution, Discussion

bit flags

in enumerations, testing, Problem, Discussion
turning on or off, Problem, See Also

BitArray class, Collections

(see also collections)

bitmaps (see binary data byte array)

bitmask, Discussion, Problem, Discussion

bitwise AND operator (&), Discussion, Discussion, Discussion, Solution, Discussion

bitwise complement operator (~), Problem

bitwise OR operator (|), Discussion, Discussion, Discussion, Solution, Discussion

bitwise XOR operator (^), Discussion, Solution, Discussion

blittable objects, Discussion

books

about .NET Framework programming, See Also
about adapter design pattern, See Also
about C#, What Was Left Out
about design patterns, See Also
about HTTP, See Also
about regular expressions, See Also
about security, See Also
about Visual Studio .NET, What Was Left Out

bool data type, Numbers

Boolean equations

ensuring correctness of, Problem, Discussion
simplifying, Problem, See Also

boolean values, conversions to, Problem, Discussion, Discussion

BooleanSwitch class, controlling tracing with, Solution, Discussion

boxing, Classes and Structures

finding where it occurs, Problem, See Also
preventing, Discussion

braces ({}), balanced, Problem

brackets (see angle brackets braces square brackets)

BreadthFirstSearch method, NTreeNode class, Solution, Discussion

BuildDependentAssemblyList method, Solution

byte array

breaking large numbers into, Problem
converting to a string, Problem
decoding Base64 data into, Problem
encoding as a string, Problem
passing strings to methods as, Problem, See Also

byte data type, Numbers, Problem, See Also

C

C language, compared to C#, Preface

C# in a Nutshell (O’Reilly), What Was Left Out

C# language, Preface

books about, What Was Left Out
specification for, Discussion
web sites with sample code for, Preface, Who This Book Is For

C# Language Pocket Reference (O’Reilly), What Was Left Out

C++ language, compared to C#, Preface

cache

ASP.NET, Solution
for objects, Problem, See Also

caching, Discussion

CalcHash method, The calculated hash

calculated hash algorithm, The calculated hash

calculations, ensuring correctness of, Problem, Discussion

CallbackAsyncDelegate method, Solution, Discussion

callbacks

delegates implementing, Discussion, Solution, See Also
interfaces used for, Problem, See Also

CallBackThroughIFace method, Solution, Discussion

CallCOMMethod method, Exception Handling

CallNextHookEx function, Discussion

CallSecureFunctionSafelyAndEfficiently method, Solution, Discussion

CannotUnloadAppDomainException exception, Solution

Capacity property, StringBuilder class, Solution, Discussion

caret (^), on command line, Discussion

CAS (Code Access Security), Security, Unsafe Code

case sensitivity

comparing characters using, Problem
comparing strings using, Problem
searching for strings at head or tail of string using, Problem
searching for strings within strings using, Problem, See Also

cast operator (( )), Problem

casting

as operator used for, Discussion, Problem, See Also
cast operator (( )) used for, Discussion
exceptions thrown as result of, Discussion
is operator used for, Discussion
predetermining success of, with is operator, Problem, See Also
to narrower data type, Problem, See Also

catch blocks, Exception Handling

(see also exception handling)
multiple, handling exceptions individually, Solution, Discussion
preventing unhandled exceptions with, Solution, Discussion
within finally blocks, Solution, Discussion

CDATA nodes, Discussion

Celsius

converting Fahrenheit to, Problem
converting to Fahrenheit, Problem

char data type, Numbers, Problem, See Also

characters

byte array of, converting to a string, Problem
case-sensitive or case-insensitive comparison of, Problem
comparison operators and, Solution
conversions to, Problem, Discussion, Discussion
ensuring maximum number in string, Problem
inserting into strings, Problem, See Also
iterating over characters in string, Problem
removing from head or tail of string, Problem
removing or replacing within a string, Problem, See Also
searching strings for, Problem, Discussion, Solution
type of, determining, Problem, See Also
within a range, determining, Problem

CharKind enumeration, Discussion

Check for Arithmetic Overflow/Underflow project property, Discussion

Check method, Balance class, Solution

checked context, Discussion, Discussion

checked keyword, Solution, Discussion

CheckPassword method, Solution, Discussion

CheckUserEnteredPath method, Solution

Children property, NTreeNode class, Solution

classes, Problem

(see also objects)
abstract base classes, Problem, Discussion
base classes, Problem, See Also
cloneable, Problem, See Also
COM objects using, Problem, See Also
concrete classes, Discussion
Equals method for, overloading, Problem
operating as union types, Discussion
overridden methods in, listing, Problem, See Also
performance of, Classes and Structures
polymorphism for, Problem, Discussion, Problem, See Also
represented as a string, Problem, See Also
sealed, adding events to, Problem, See Also
single instance of, Problem, See Also
static fields, initializing, Problem, See Also
when to use, Classes and Structures

Clear method

AsymmetricAlgorithm class, Solution
classes using, Discussion
DblQueue class, Solution
MultiMap class, Solution, Discussion
PriorityQueue class, Solution
SymmetricAlgorithm class, Solution

client (see web client)

ClientABC class, Solution

Clone method

DblQueue class, Solution
MultiMap class, Solution
PriorityQueue class, Solution
XmlNode class, Discussion

cloneable classes, Problem, See Also

cloning, Discussion

Close method, Discussion

CLS compliance

ensuring compatibility with managed languages, Problem
simple types not conforming to, Numbers

CLSCompliantAttribute for assembly, Problem

coarse-grained exception handling, Exception Handling

Code Access Security (CAS), Security, Unsafe Code

Code Access Security in Practice (Microsoft Patterns & Practices Group), See Also

code samples, About the Code

in this book, system requirements for, What You Need to Use This Book
permission requirements, Using Code Examples
web sites for, Preface, Who This Book Is For

CollectionBase abstract base class, Solution, Discussion

collections, Collections

displaying values as a delimited string, Problem
persisting between application sessions, Problem, See Also
StackTrace class acting as, Problem, See Also
strongly typed (restricted to specific data type), Problem, See Also
types of, Collections

CollectionsUtil class, Collections

COM components

exceptions for, Discussion, Problem, See Also
releasing, Problem
user-defined exceptions for, Problem
using C# classes, Problem, See Also

COMException exception, Discussion, Solution, Discussion

command-line parameters, parsing, Problem, See Also

comment characters, Solution

comments regarding this book, Comments and Questions

Commutative Law, Solution

CompanyData class, Solution, Discussion

CompanyDataSecProxy class, Solution, Discussion

CompanyDataTraceProxy class, Solution, Discussion

Compare method, string class, Solution, Solution

CompareFileVersions method, Solution

CompareHeight class, Discussion

CompareTo method, Solution

comparison operators, Solution

(see also Equals method)
characters used with, Solution
pointers and, Solution
Set objects used with, Solution, Discussion
strings used with, Discussion

CompileToAssembly method, Regex class, Solution, Discussion

compiling

/main switch, Discussion
conditionally, Problem, See Also
regular expressions, Problem, See Also

ComplexReplace method, Solution

component, as source for event log, determining, Problem, See Also

ConcatStringGetHashCode method, The string concatenation hash

concrete classes, implementing polymorphism with, Discussion

conditional operator (?:), overloading, Problem, See Also

ConditionalAttribute attribute, Solution

configuration files (see application configuration file machine configuration file)

configuration, exceptions for, Discussion

ConfigurationException exception, Discussion

console utilities, reading from and responding to, Problem

const field, Problem, See Also

constants, initializing at runtime, Problem, See Also

constructors

default, removing, Solution
overloaded, initializing objects with, Problem, Discussion

contact information for this book, Comments and Questions

contained object cache algorithm, The contained object cache

ContainedObjHash method, The contained object cache

Container class, Solution

Contains method

ArrayList class, Problem
DblQueue class, Solution
PriorityQueue class, Solution
Set class, Solution
SortedList class, Discussion, See Also

Contains method, PriorityQueue class, Solution

ContainsKey method

MultiMap class, Solution, Discussion
SortedList class, Discussion, See Also

ContainsString method, PriorityQueue class, Solution

ContainsValue method

MultiMap class, Solution, Discussion
SortedList class, Discussion, See Also

ContextMarshalException exception, Solution

control character, determining if character is, Problem, See Also

conventions used in this book, Conventions Used in This Book

Convert class

FromBase64CharArray method, Solution
ToBase64CharArray method, Solution
ToBoolean method, Discussion
ToByte method, Discussion
ToChar method, Discussion
ToDateTime method, Discussion
ToDecimal method, Discussion
ToDouble method, Discussion
ToInt16 method, Discussion
ToInt32 method, Solution, Discussion
ToInt64 method, Discussion
ToSByte method, Discussion
ToSingle method, Discussion
ToString method, Discussion
ToUInt16 method, Discussion
ToUInt32 method, Discussion
ToUInt64 method, Discussion

ConvertCollectionToDelStr method, Solution

ConvertDegreesToRadians method, Solution

ConvertObj method, Solution

ConvertRadiansToDegrees method, Solution

ConvertToASCIIStringSlow method, Discussion

ConvertToString method, Solution, Discussion

ConvertToStringSlow method, Discussion

Copy method

Array class, Discussion
File class, Solution

CopyTo method

DblQueue class, Solution
FileInfo class, Solution
ICollection interface, Solution
PriorityQueue class, Solution

Cos method, Math class, Solution

cosine function, Discussion

Count method, MultiMap class, Solution

Count property

DblQueue class, Solution
PriorityQueue class, Solution
Set class, Solution

CountAll method, Solution

CountChildren method

BinaryTreeNode class, Solution
NTreeNode class, Solution

CounterDelta32 counter, Discussion

CounterDelta64 counter, Discussion

CounterMultiTimer counter, Discussion

CounterMultiTimer100Ns counter, Discussion

CounterMultiTimer100NsInverse counter, Discussion

CounterMultiTimerInverse counter, Discussion

counters (see performance counters)

CounterTimer counter, Discussion

CounterTimerInverse counter, Discussion

CountImmediateChildren method, NTreeNode class, Solution

CountPerTimeInterval32 counter, Discussion

CountPerTimeInterval64 counter, Discussion

CRC (cyclic redundancy check), Discussion

Create method

DirectoryInfo class, Solution
File class, Solution, Discussion
FileInfo class, Solution, Discussion

CreateAbsoluteUri method, Solution

CreateAndHandlePoint method, Solution

CreateComplexCounter method, Solution

CreateDirectory method, Directory class, Solution

CreateFile method, Solution

CreateHashedPassword method, Solution, Discussion

CreateInternedStr method, Solution

CreateLockedFile method, Discussion

CreateLogFile method, Solution

CreateNestedObjects method, Discussion

CreateNode method, NTreeNodeFactory class, Solution, Discussion

CreatePoint method, Solution

CreateRegExDLL method, Solution

CreateSimpleCounter method, Solution

CreateStringHash method, Solution, Discussion

CreateText method, File class, Discussion

CreationTime property

DirectoryInfo class, Solution
FileInfo class, Solution

credit card number, regular expression patterns for, Solution

critical sections, locking objects against, Solution

CryptographicException exception, Solution

CryptographicUnexpectedOperationException exception, Solution

cryptography (see encryption security)

CryptoHash method, The CryptoHash method, The CryptoHash method using a nonstring

CryptoHash method algorithm, The CryptoHash method, The CryptoHash method using a nonstring

CryptoStream class, Discussion

CryptoString class, Solution, Discussion

Decrypt method, Discussion
Encrypt method, Discussion
RdGenerateSecretInitVector method, Discussion
RdGenerateSecretKey method, Discussion

CtoF method, Solution

currency, formatting strings as, Discussion

CurrentValue property, NTreeNodeFactory class, Solution

CustomAttributeFormatException exception, Discussion, Solution

cyclic redundancy check (CRC), Discussion

D

dangling pointers, Discussion

dash (-)

in regular expression patterns, Solution
on command line, Discussion

data, Problem

(see also files)
controlling and tracking access to, Problem, See Also
encrypting (see encryption)
isolated storage of, Discussion
securely storing, Problem, See Also
synchronizing reading and writing by multiple threads, Problem, See Also
thread-specific, storing privately, Problem, See Also

data types

casting (see casting)

collections restricted to specific data type, Problem, See Also

conversions between, Problem, See Also, Problem

(see also specific data types)

hash codes for, Problem, See Also

of variables, determining with is operator, Problem, See Also

simple, Numbers, Problem, See Also

date/time values, conversions to, Discussion

dates, regular expression patterns for, Solution

DateTime object, creating, Discussion

DblQueue class, Solution

DeadLock class, Discussion

deadlocks, preventing, Discussion

Debug class, Diagnostics

(see also Trace class)
Assert method, Discussion
interchanging with Trace class, Diagnostics

debugging, Diagnostics

(see also tracing)
configuring to break on exceptions, Solution, Discussion
enabling for specific components, Problem, See Also

decimal data type, Numbers

decorator design pattern, Discussion

Decrypt method, CryptoString class, Discussion

deep copying, Solution, Discussion

DeepClone class, Solution

degrees

converting Celsius to Fahrenheit, Problem
converting Fahrenheit to Celsius, Problem
converting radians to, Problem
converting to radians, Problem

DelegateCallback method, Solution, Discussion

delegates, Delegates and Events

asynchronous

exceptions thrown by, Problem
notification of completion, Problem, See Also
polling, Problem, See Also
timing out, Problem, See Also

callbacks implemented by, Discussion, Solution, See Also

compared to dynamic invocation using reflection, Discussion

for keyboard hook callback, Discussion

MatchEvaluator, Solution, Discussion

MemberFilter delegate, Discussion

multicast

controlling delegates executed in, Problem, See Also
handling exceptions for each delegate in, Problem, See Also
invocation list for, Discussion
return values from each delegate in, Problem, See Also

synchronous, converting to asynchronous, Problem, See Also

TypeFilter delegate, Discussion

DelegateUtilities class, Solution, Solution

Delete method

Directory class, Solution
DirectoryInfo class, Solution
File class, Solution
FileInfo class, Solution

Demand method, Solution, Discussion

DemonstrateRenameDir method, Solution

DeMorgan’s Theorem, Solution

DepthFirstSearch method

BinaryTreeNode class, Solution, Discussion
NTreeNode class, Solution, Discussion

DequeueHead method, DblQueue class, Solution

DequeueLargest method, PriorityQueue class, Solution

DequeueSmallest method, PriorityQueue class, Solution

DequeueTail method, DblQueue class, Solution

derived classes, overriding methods in, listing, Problem, See Also

design patterns

adapter design pattern, Solution, Discussion
books about, See Also, See Also
decorator design pattern, Discussion
dispose design pattern, Solution, See Also
façade design pattern, Solution, See Also
iterator design pattern, Discussion
memento design pattern, Solution, Discussion
observer design pattern, Discussion, Discussion
proxy design pattern, Solution, Discussion
simple factory design pattern, Solution, Discussion
singleton design pattern, Problem, See Also, Discussion

Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object Oriented Software (Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides), See Also, See Also

DetectXMLChanges method, Solution

DevPartner Profiler Community Edition, See Also

DevPartner Studio Professional Edition, See Also

diagnostics, Diagnostics

dictionary collections, Collections

difference of set objects, Problem, Solution, Discussion

DifferenceOf method, Set class, Solution, Discussion

digit, determining if character is, Problem, See Also

digital signatures, for assemblies, Solution

directories, Filesystem I/O

(see also files)
creating, Solution, Discussion
deleting, Solution, Discussion
determining if it exists, Problem, Discussion
monitoring for changes to, Problem, See Also
moving, Solution, Discussion
not existing when creating file, Discussion
not found, exceptions for, Discussion
renaming, Problem, See Also
searching for, using wildcards, Problem, See Also
timestamps of, manipulating, Solution
waiting for changes to, Problem, See Also

Directory class, Solution

CreateDirectory method, Solution
Delete method, Solution
Exists method, Solution
GetCreationTime method, Solution
GetDirectories method, Solution, Discussion
GetFiles method, Solution
GetFileSystemEntries method, Solution, Discussion
GetLastAccessTime method, Solution
GetLastWriteTime method, Solution
Move method, Solution, Solution
SetCreationTime method, Solution
SetLastAccessTime method, Solution
SetLastWriteTime method, Solution

directory trees, retrieving and manipulating, Problem

DirectoryInfo class, Solution

Attributes property, Solution
Create method, Solution
creating instance of, Solution
CreationTime property, Solution
Delete method, Solution
GetDirectories method, Solution, Discussion, Solution
GetFiles method, Solution
GetFileSystemInfos method, Solution, Discussion, Solution
LastAccessTime property, Solution
LastWriteTime property, Solution
MoveTo method, Solution, Solution

DirectoryInfoNotify class, Solution, Solution

DirectoryInfoObserver class, Solution, Solution

DirectoryNotFoundException exception, Discussion, Solution, Discussion

disassembler tool, Solution

DisplayDirAttr method, Solution

DisplayDirs method, Solution

DisplayException method, Solution

DisplayFileAttr method, Solution

DisplayFiles method, Solution

DisplayFilesDirs method, Solution

DisplayInheritanceHierarchyType method, Solution

DisplayNestedTypes method, Solution

DisplaySet method, Set class, Solution

DisplayTypeHierarchy method, Solution

dispose design pattern, Solution, See Also

Dispose method, Problem, See Also, Discussion, See Also

Distributive Law, Solution

DivideByZeroException exception, Solution

DllNotFoundException exception, Solution

Dns class, Resolve method, Solution, Solution

dollar amounts, regular expression patterns for, Solution

DOM model, Discussion

DoReversal method, Solution

double data type, Numbers, Problem

double quotes (“”), on command line, Discussion

double-queue, Problem, See Also

DownloadData method, WebClient class, Solution

DownloadFile method, WebClient class, Solution

DTD, validating XML conformance to, Problem, See Also

dump files, searching for, Problem

DuplicateWaitObjectException exception, Solution

DynamicInvoke method, Solution

E

ElapsedTime counter, Discussion

elements, in a collection, Collections

ellipses (...), omitted code in examples, Conventions Used in This Book

email address

for this book, Comments and Questions
regular expression patterns for, Solution

Encrypt method, CryptoString class, Discussion

encryption, Discussion

clearing key and initialization vector afterwards, Problem
cryptography providers, Solution
digital signatures for assemblies, Solution
of files, Problem, See Also
random number generator for, Problem
of strings, Problem, See Also

end-of-line character (see EOL character linefeed character)

endianness, Discussion

EndInvoke method, Solution, Discussion

EndOfStreamException exception, Solution, Discussion

EndsWith method, string class, Solution

EnhancedLog class, Discussion

Enqueue method, PriorityQueue class, Solution

EnqueueHead method, DblQueue class, Solution

EnqueueTail method, DblQueue class, Solution

EnsureCapacity method, StringBuilder class, Discussion

entry points, multiple, Problem, See Also

EntryPointNotFoundException exception, Solution

EntryWrittenEventHandler delegate, Discussion

Enum class

IsDefined method, Solution, Discussion
Parse method, Solution

enumerations, Enumerations

All member of, Discussion
conditional testing of bit flags for, Problem, Discussion
converting strings to, Problem, Discussion
converting text of to enumeration value, Problem
displaying as strings, Problem, See Also
exceptions for, Discussion
Flags attribute, Solution, Discussion
testing for valid value of, Problem, See Also, Problem, See Also
used as bitmask, Problem, Discussion
used as flags, Discussion, Problem, See Also

enumerators, custom, Problem, See Also

Environment class

StackTrace method, Discussion
StackTrace property, Discussion

environment variables, parsing paths in, Problem, See Also

Environment.NewLine constant, Solution

EOL (end-of-line) character, Problem

(see also linefeed character)

equality operator (==)

comparing pointers with, Solution
comparing strings with, Discussion
overriding, Discussion, Discussion
Set class, Solution, Discussion

Equals method, Solution, Discussion

GetHashCode method as alternative to, Solution
improving performance of, Problem, See Also
overriding for user-defined exceptions, Discussion
Set class, Solution, Discussion
string class, Solution, Discussion

equations, Problem

(see also calculations)
balanced, determining, Problem, See Also
complex, ensuring correctness of, Problem, Discussion
complex, simplifying, Problem, See Also

error handling, Problem

(see also exception handling)
web server errors, Problem, See Also

ErrorCode property, COMException exception, Discussion

even values, determining if number is, Problem

event logs

custom, maximum size of, Problem, See Also
monitoring for specific entries, Problem, See Also
multiple, Problem, See Also
searching, Problem, See Also
sources for, determining, Problem, See Also

events

adding to sealed class, Problem, See Also
listener for, canceling action that raised an event, Problem, See Also
mouse events, Discussion
observing object modifications, Problem, See Also
specialized parameters for, Problem, See Also

EventSearchLog class, Solution

Everything permissions set, Reflection, Discussion

examples (see code samples)

Exception class, Discussion

creating, Problem, See Also
GetBaseException method, Solution
mapped to HRESULT, Solution

exception event handlers, Solution, Discussion

exception handling, Exception Handling, Exception Handling

for asynchronous delegates, Problem, Discussion
coarse-grained, Exception Handling
for delegates in multicast delegate, Problem, See Also
fine-grained, Exception Handling
incorrect parameters, Problem, See Also
performance of, Exception Handling, Discussion
with threads, Problem, See Also, Discussion
when to throw specific exceptions, Problem, See Also

exceptions, Solution, Problem

(see also specific exceptions)
(see also specific exceptions)
asynchronous delegate throwing, Problem
breaking application before handling, Problem, Discussion
casting, Discussion
determining object originating, Problem
displaying information from, Problem, See Also
generated by method using reflection, Problem, See Also
handling individually, Problem, See Also
HRESULTs mapped to, Problem, See Also
innermost, finding, Problem
list of, Problem, See Also
not losing with finally blocks, Problem, See Also
rethrowing, Solution
throwing, Exception Handling
unhandled, preventing, Problem, See Also
user-defined, creating, Problem, See Also
when to throw, Problem, See Also

executable modules, comparing versions of, Problem, See Also

ExecutionEngineException exception, Exception Handling, Solution

Exists method

Directory class, Solution
File class, Discussion, Solution
FileInfo class, Discussion

exported types of an assembly, listing, Problem

expressions, Problem

(see also equations)
balanced, determining, Problem, See Also
complex, ensuring correctness of, Problem, Discussion

Extensible Markup Language (see XML)

ExternalException class, Exception Handling

ExternalException exception, Solution

ExtractGroupings method, RegExUtilities class, Solution

F

façade design pattern, Solution, See Also

factory design pattern, simple, Solution, Discussion

Fahrenheit

converting Celsius to, Problem
converting to Celsius, Problem

FieldAccessException exception, Solution

File class, Solution

AppendText method, Discussion
Copy method, Solution
Create method, Solution, Discussion
CreateText method, Discussion
Delete method, Solution
Exists method, Discussion, Solution
GetCreationTime method, Solution
GetLastAccessTime method, Solution
GetLastWriteTime method, Solution
Move method, Solution, Solution
Open method, Discussion
OpenRead method, Discussion
OpenText method, Discussion
OpenWrite method, Discussion
SetCreationTime method, Solution
SetLastAccessTime method, Solution
SetLastWriteTime method, Solution

file handle, opening file from, Problem, See Also

file streams, types of, Solution

(see also BinaryReader class; BinaryWriter class; FileStream class; StreamReader class; StreamWriter class)

FileAccess enumeration, Discussion

FileAttributes enumeration, Discussion, Discussion

FileInfo class, Solution

AppendText method, Discussion
Attributes property, Solution, Discussion
CopyTo method, Solution
Create method, Solution, Discussion
CreationTime property, Solution
Delete method, Solution
Exists method, Discussion
GetFiles method, Solution, Discussion
LastAccessTime property, Solution
LastWriteTime property, Solution
MoveTo method, Solution, Solution
Open method, Discussion
OpenRead method, Discussion
OpenText method, Discussion
OpenWrite method, Discussion

FileLoadException exception, Solution

FileMode enumeration, Discussion

FileNotFoundException exception, Solution, Solution, Discussion

files, Filesystem I/O

(see also directories)
attributes for, Solution, Discussion, Solution
copying, Solution
counting lines of text in, Problem, See Also
creating, Solution, Discussion, Solution
deleting, Solution
determining whether it exists, Problem
encrypting and decrypting, Problem, See Also
EOL character in, platform-independent, Problem
linefeed character in (see linefeed character)
loading, exceptions generated by, Problem
locking portions of, Problem, See Also
monitoring for changes to, Problem, See Also
moving, Solution
not found, exception for, Discussion
opening for reading and/or writing, Problem, See Also
opening from file handle, Problem, See Also
persisting collections to, between application sessions, Solution
reading, Solution, Solution, Discussion, Discussion
regular expression pattern for path name, Solution
renaming, Problem
returning all lines in an ArrayList, Discussion
searching, Problem, See Also
searching for, using wildcards, Problem, See Also
seeking (randomly accessing), Problem, See Also
temporary, Problem
timestamp of, manipulating, Solution, Discussion
waiting for changes to, Problem, See Also
writing to, Solution, Discussion
writing to multiple files at one time, Problem, See Also

FileShare enumeration, Discussion

FileStream class, Solution, Discussion, Discussion

creating instance of, Solution, Solution
creating instance of, from file handle, Discussion
Lock method, Solution
Read method, Discussion
ReadByte method, Discussion
Seek method, Solution
Unlock method, Discussion
Write method, Discussion
WriteByte method, Discussion

FileSystemWatcher class, Solution, Discussion, Discussion

as alternative to DirectoryInfoNotify class, Solution
properties of, Discussion
WaitForChanged method, Solution, Discussion

FileVersionInfo class, Discussion

FilteredArrayList class, Solution

FilteringOutputObtainingMembers method, Solution

finalizers, Discussion

finally blocks, Exception Handling

(see also exception handling)
catch blocks within, Solution, Discussion
for each delegate in multicast delegate, Discussion
not losing exceptions with, Problem, See Also
preventing unhandled exceptions with, Solution, Discussion

FindAll method, Solution

FindAllIllegalChars method, Solution

FindAllOccurrences method, Solution

FindAnEntryInEventLog method, Discussion

FindAny method, Solution

FindAnyIllegalChars method, Solution

FindIFaceMemberInAssembly method, Solution

FindInArray method, Solution, Discussion

FindInterfaces method, Type class, Solution, Discussion

FindMemberInAssembly method, Solution

FindMembers method, Type class, Solution

FindMethodOverrides method, Solution

FindOccurrenceOf method, Solution

FindOverriddenMethods method, Solution

FindSerializable method, Solution

FindSourceNamesFromAllLogs method, Solution

FindSourceNamesFromLog method, Solution

FindSpecificInterfaces method, Solution

FindSubclassOfType method, Discussion

FindSubstrings method, Solution, Discussion

fine-grained exception handling, Exception Handling

FinishedProcessingGroup method, INotificationCallbacks interface, Solution, Discussion

FinishedProcessingSubGroup method, INotificationCallbacks interface, Solution, Discussion

fixed statement, Discussion, Discussion

fixed-size arrays, Collections, Problem

Flags attribute, enumerations, Solution, Discussion

flags, enumerations used as, Problem, Discussion, Problem, See Also

(see also bit flags)

FlipBit method, Solution

float data type, Numbers, Problem

floating-point values

equality with fractions, Problem
rounding, Problem, See Also

Floor method, Math class, Solution

folding hash algorithm, The folding hash

FoldingHash method, The folding hash

fonts used in this book, Conventions Used in This Book

for loop, iterating over characters in string, Solution

foreach loop

iterating over characters in string using, Solution
iterating over interfaces with, Discussion
nested, iterating across nested arrays of objects, Problem, See Also
optimizing, Discussion
polymorphic use of, Problem, See Also

Format method, string class, Solution, Discussion

FormatException exception, Discussion, Discussion, Discussion, Exception Handling, Discussion, Solution

formatting strings, Problem, See Also

forms, simulating execution of, Problem, See Also

fractions, equality with floating-point values, Problem

FreeNamedDataSlot method, Thread class, Discussion

FromASCIIByteArray method, Solution

FromBase64CharArray method, Convert class, Solution

FromUnicodeByteArray method, Solution

FtoC method, Solution

FullTrust permission set, Reflection, Discussion

FusionLog property, Solution

G

GenerateGetOrPostRequest method, Solution, Discussion

GenerateIV method, RijndaelManaged class, Discussion

GenerateKey method, RijndaelManaged class, Discussion

generics, Preface

Get methods, Type class, Solution

GET request, sending to web server, Problem, See Also

GetAll method, Solution

GetAllDirFilesRecurse method, Solution

GetAllFilesInPatternRecurse method, Solution

GetAvailableThreads method, ThreadPool class, Solution, Discussion, Solution

GetBaseDefinition method, MethodInfo class, Solution, Discussion

GetBaseException method, Exception class, Solution

GetBaseTypeList method, Solution, Discussion

GetBytes method

ASCIIEncoding class, Solution
UnicodeEncoding class, Solution

GetCharKind method, Discussion

GetCharKindInString method, Discussion

GetChild method, NTreeNode class, Solution

GetCreationTime method

Directory class, Solution
File class, Solution

GetData method, Thread class, Discussion

GetDirectories method

Directory class, Solution, Discussion
DirectoryInfo class, Solution, Discussion, Solution

GetDirectoryName method, Path class, Discussion

GetEnumerator method, PriorityQueue class, Solution

GetExportedTypes method, Assembly class, Solution

GetExtension method, Path class, Discussion

GetFileName method, Path class, Discussion

GetFileNameWithoutExtension method, Path class, Discussion

GetFiles method

Directory class, Solution, Discussion
DirectoryInfo class, Solution
FileInfo class, Solution, Discussion

GetFileSystemEntries method, Directory class, Solution, Discussion

GetFileSystemInfos method, DirectoryInfo class, Solution, Discussion, Solution

GetHashCode method, Problem, See Also

overriding, Solution, Discussion, Discussion
Set class, Solution

GetHTMLFromURL method, Solution

GetInterface method, Type class, Problem

GetInterfaces method, Type class, Problem

GetInvocationList method, MulticastDelegate class, Solution, Discussion, Solution, Solution

GetKeys method, Solution

GetLastAccessTime method

Directory class, Solution
File class, Solution

GetLastWriteTime method

Directory class, Solution
File class, Solution

GetLines method, Solution

GetLSB method, Solution

GetMaxThreads method, ThreadPool class, Solution

GetMember method, Type class, Problem, Solution, Discussion, Discussion

GetMembers method, Type class, Problem

GetMethod method, Discussion

GetMethods method, Solution, Discussion

GetMSB method, Solution

GetNamedDataSlot method, Thread class, Discussion

GetPathRoot method, Path class, Discussion

GetReferencedAssemblies method, Assembly class, Solution, Discussion

GetResponse method, HttpWebResponse class, Solution, Discussion

GetResponseStream method, HttpWebResponse class, Discussion

GetRoot method

BinaryTree class, Solution
NTree class, Solution

GetSerializableTypeNames method, Solution

GetStackTraceDepth method, Discussion

GetStream method, TcpClient class, Discussion

GetString method

ASCIIEncoding class, Discussion
UnicodeEncoding class, Discussion

GetSubClasses method, Solution

GetTempFileName method, Path class, Solution

GetTempPath method, Path class, Solution

GetType method, Type class, Discussion

GetValues method, Solution

GetVersionInfo method, FileVersionInfo class, Discussion

GradeBoard class, Solution, Discussion

greater than operator (>), Solution

greater than or equal operator (>=), Solution

groups in regular expressions, Problem, See Also

GUIDs, created by assembly registration tool, Solution

H

HandleEnum method, Solution, Discussion

HandleFlagsEnum method, Solution

HandlingInvalidChars method, Solution

hash code algorithms

calculated hash, The calculated hash
contained object cache, The contained object cache
CryptoHash method, The CryptoHash method, The CryptoHash method using a nonstring
folding hash, The folding hash
guidelines for, Discussion
shift and add hash, The shift and add hash
simple hash, The simple hash
string concatenation hash, The string concatenation hash

hash values

appending to strings for verification, Solution, Discussion, Problem, See Also
creating for a data type, Problem, See Also

hashed passwords, Solution, Discussion

HashOps class, Solution

Hashtable class, Discussion, Collections

(see also collections)
displaying sorted by keys and/or values, Problem, See Also
maximum size for, setting, Problem, See Also
maximum values stored in, setting, Problem, See Also
minimum size for, setting, Problem, See Also
minimum values stored in, setting, Problem, See Also
one-to-many map (multimap) using, Problem, See Also
persisting between application sessions, Problem, See Also

Hashtable object

observing additions and modifications to, Problem, See Also
storing grouped search results in, Problem, Solution

HashtableEventArgs class, Solution, Discussion

HashtableObserver class, Solution, Discussion

HashtableSubject class, Solution, Discussion

hexadecimal values, formatting strings as, Discussion

hooks, Windows keyboard, Problem, See Also

host name

converting to IP address, Problem
resolving IP address to, Problem

HostName2IP method, Solution

HRESULT

for user-defined exceptions, Discussion
mapping to exceptions, Problem, See Also
throwing exceptions as alternative to, Exception Handling
unknown, exception for, Discussion
user-defined, handling, Problem

HTML

converting XML to, Problem, See Also
obtaining from URL, Problem
tags, checking if balanced, Problem, See Also

HTTP status codes, Discussion

HTTP: The Definitive Guide (Gourley, Totty), See Also

HttpStatusCode enumeration, Discussion

HttpWebRequest class, Solution

HttpWebResponse class

GetResponse method, Solution
GetResponseStream method, Discussion
StatusCode property, Solution

HybridDictionary class, Collections

hyphen (-)

in regular expression patterns, Solution
on command line, Discussion

hypotenuse of a triangle, Solution

I

I/O (see files)

IAsynchResult interface, IsCompleted property, Solution, Discussion

ICloneable interface, Discussion

ICollection class, Solution

ICollection interface, Solution, Discussion

ICompanyData interface, Solution

IComparable interface, Solution, See Also, Solution, See Also, Solution

IComparer interface, Solution, See Also, Discussion

icons used in this book, Conventions Used in This Book

IDisposable interface, Discussion

IEnumerable interface, Solution, Discussion, Discussion, Discussion

IEnumerator interface, Discussion, Discussion

IFormattable interface, ToString method and, Discussion

Ildasm disassembler tool, Solution

Index property, BinaryTreeNode class, Solution

indexers

MultiMap class, Solution, Discussion
parameters for, verifying correctness of, Problem, See Also
Set class, Solution

IndexOf method

PriorityQueue class, Solution
string class, Solution, Solution, Discussion

IndexOfAny method, string class, Solution, Discussion, Solution

IndexOutOfRangeException exception, Exception Handling, Solution, Discussion, Solution

inequality operator (!=)

comparing pointers with, Solution
overriding, Discussion, Discussion
Set class, Solution, Discussion

inheritance hierarchies, of types in assemblies, Problem, See Also

InnerException property, TargetInvocationException exception, Solution

InnerXML property, XmlElement class, Discussion

INotificationCallbacks interface, Solution, Discussion

input/output (see files)

Insert method

string class, Solution
StringBuilder class, Discussion

InsertIntoArray method, Solution

InstallException exception, Discussion

instance methods, when to use, Discussion, Discussion

int data type, Numbers

interfaces

callbacks provided with, Problem, See Also
implementing polymorphism with, Discussion
members in, finding, Problem
polymorphism implemented with, Problem, See Also, Solution, See Also
searching, advanced mechanisms for, Problem, See Also

Intern method, string class, Solution, See Also

intern pool, Solution, See Also

InternedStrCls class, Solution

Internet

accessing through proxy, Problem, See Also
reading XML data from, Problem

intersection of set objects, Problem, Solution, Discussion

IntersectionOf method, Set class, Solution, Discussion

InvalidCastException exception, Discussion, Discussion, Problem, Discussion, Solution

InvalidComObjectException exception, Solution

InvalidEnumArgumentException exception, Exception Handling, Solution, Discussion

InvalidFilterCriteriaException exception, Solution

InvalidOleVariantTypeException exception, Solution

InvalidOperationException exception, Exception Handling, Discussion, Solution

InvalidPathChars field, Path class, Solution, Discussion

InvalidProgramException exception, Solution

InvokeEveryOther method, Solution

InvokeInReverse method, Solution

IOException exception, Discussion, Solution, Discussion, Discussion, Discussion

IP address

converting host name to, Problem
regular expression patterns for, Solution
resolving to host name, Problem

IPHostEntry class, Discussion

is operator

determining variable’s type with, Problem, See Also
when to use, Problem

IsApproximatelyEqualTo method, Solution

IsCharEqual method, Solution

IsCompleted property, Solution, Discussion, Discussion

IsDefined method, Enum class, Solution, Discussion

IsEven method, Solution

IsGranted method, SecurityManager class, Solution

IsInRange method, Solution

IsIntegerRegEx method, Discussion

IsInterned method, string class, Solution, See Also

IsMatch method, Regex class, Discussion

IsNumeric method, Solution

IsNumericFromTryParse method, Solution

IsNumericRegEx method, Solution

IsOdd method, Solution

IsolatedStorageException exception, Solution

IsProcessResponding method, Solution

IsSafeToConvert method, Solution

IsSubclassOf method, Type class, Solution

IsSubsetOf method, Set class, Solution, Discussion

IsSupersetOf method, Set class, Solution, Discussion

isThreadAvailable method, Solution

IsUnsignedIntegerRegEx method, Discussion

italic text used in this book, Conventions Used in This Book

iterator design pattern, Discussion

J

jagged arrays, Collections

navigating with pointer, Solution
reversing subarrays in, Problem

Java language, compared to C#, Preface

Join method

string class, Solution
Thread class, Solution, Discussion

K

keyboard input, monitoring and responding to, Problem, See Also
Keys property, Hashtable class, Solution, Discussion

L

Language enumeration, Solution, Solution, Solution, Discussion, Problem

languages

CLS-compliant, ensuring compatibility with, Problem
converting between simple types consistently across, Problem, See Also

LastAccessTime property

DirectoryInfo class, Solution
FileInfo class, Solution

LastChanceHandler method, Discussion

LastWriteTime property

DirectoryInfo class, Solution
FileInfo class, Solution

LastWriteTime property, FileInfo class, Solution

Learning C# (O’Reilly), What Was Left Out

least-significant bits (LSB) of an integer, determining, Problem

Left property, BinaryTreeNode class, Solution

Length property, StringBuilder class, Discussion

less than operator (<), Solution

less than or equal operator (<=), Solution

letter, determining if character is, Problem, See Also, Problem

(see also characters)

lexers (see tokenizers)

Line structure, Solution, Solution

LineCount method, Solution

LineCount2 method, Solution

linefeed character, Problem

(see also EOL (end-of-line character))
counting in string or file, Problem, See Also
Macintosh ( ), Discussion
Unix ( ), Discussion
XSLT, Discussion

ListDictionary class, Discussion, Collections

listeners element, application configuration file, Discussion

ListExportedTypes method, Solution

little-endian format, Discussion

LoadFrom method, Assembly class, Problem

LoadMissingDLL method, Solution

LocalDataStoreSlot class, Discussion

LocalIntranet permission set, Reflection, Discussion

lock keyword, Discussion

Lock method, FileStream class, Solution

locking

file streams, Discussion
files, Problem, See Also
objects, Solution

Log class, Solution

log file, creating and maintaining, Problem, See Also

Log4Net software, Solution

logging, Solution

(see also event logs)
Log4Net software for, Solution

logical AND operator (&&), overloading, Problem, See Also

logical OR operator (||), overloading, Problem, See Also

long data type, Numbers

LSB (least-significant bits) of an integer, determining, Problem

M

machine configuration file, Discussion

Magnetic class, Solution

managed code, Unsafe Code

(see also unsafe code)
accessing files created by unmanaged code, Discussion
blittable and nonblittable types and, Discussion
called by COM objects, Exception Handling
dispose design pattern and, Discussion
exceptions for, mapping to HRESULTs, Problem
P/Invoke and, Classes and Structures, Solution
releasing COM object through, Problem

managed execution environment, Preface

managed languages, Problem

Marshal class, ReleaseComObject method, Solution

MarshalDirectiveException exception, Solution

Mastering Regular Expressions (O’Reilly), See Also

Mastering Visual Studio .NET (O’Reilly), What Was Left Out

Match method, Regex class, Regular Expressions

compiling regular expressions with, Solution, Discussion
RightToLeft option for, Solution
verifying syntax of regular expression using, Discussion

Match object, Regular Expressions, Discussion

MatchCollection object, Discussion, Problem, See Also

Matches method, Regex class, Regular Expressions

compiling regular expressions with, Solution, Discussion
subscripting array returned by, Solution

MatchesCollection object, Regular Expressions

MatchEvaluator delegate, Solution, Discussion

MatchHandler method, Solution

Math class

Acos method, Solution
Asin method, Solution
Atan method, Solution
converting degrees to radians for, Problem
converting radians to degrees for, Problem
Cos method, Solution
Floor method, Solution
Pow method, Solution
Round method, Solution
Sin method, Solution
Sqrt method, Solution
Tan method, Solution

mathematical equations, ensuring correctness of, Problem, Discussion

MaxChildren property

NTree class, Solution
NTreeNodeFactory class, Solution

MaxMinSizeHashtable class, Solution

MaxMinValueHashtable class, Solution

Media class, Solution

MediaCollection class, Solution

MemberAccess privilege, Reflection, Discussion

MemberAccessException exception, Discussion

MemberFilter delegate, Solution, Discussion

members

dynamically invoking using reflection, Problem, See Also
searching, advanced mechanisms for, Problem, See Also
thread-safe access to, Problem, See Also

MemberTypes enumeration, Discussion

Memento class, Discussion

memento design pattern, Solution, Discussion

MementoCareTaker class, Solution, Discussion

MemoryStream class, Discussion

MethodAccessException exception, Discussion, Solution

MethodInfo class, GetBaseDefinition method, Solution, Discussion

methods, Discussion

(see also parameters)
calling on multiple object types, Problem, See Also
dynamically invoking using reflection, Problem, See Also
exceptions for, Discussion
format parameters, exceptions for, Discussion
instance, when to use, Discussion, Discussion
invoked using reflection, exceptions generated by, Problem, See Also
overridden, listing for a derived class, Problem, See Also
parameters for, verifying correctness of, Problem, See Also
pointers passed to, controlling changes to, Problem, See Also
preventing compilation of, Solution
raising notifications from non-virtual methods, Discussion
returning multiple items from, Problem, Discussion
static, when to use, Discussion, Discussion
thread-safe access to, Problem, See Also

MissingFieldException exception, Solution

MissingManifestResourceException exception, Solution

MissingMemberException exception, Solution

MissingMethodException exception, Solution

ModifyDirAttr method, Solution

ModifyFile method, Solution

ModifyFileAttr method, Solution

ModifyNumericField method, Solution

monetary values, regular expression patterns for, Solution

Monitor class, TryEnter method, Discussion

MonitorMethodAccess class, Discussion

most-significant bits (MSB) of an integer, determining, Problem

mouse events, Discussion

mouse, manipulating, Problem

Move method

Directory class, Solution, Solution
File class, Solution, Solution

MoveInFile method, Discussion

MoveTo method

DirectoryInfo class, Solution, Solution
FileInfo class, Solution, Solution

MSB (most-significant bits) of an integer, determining, Problem

MSDN Library, What Was Left Out

MultiCallBackThroughIFace method, Discussion

multicast delegates

controlling delegates executed in, Problem, See Also
handling exceptions for each delegate in, Problem, See Also
invocation list for, Discussion
return values from each delegate in, Problem, See Also

MulticastDelegate class, GetInvocationList method, Solution, Discussion, Solution, Solution

MulticastNotSupportedException exception, Solution

MultiClone class, Solution

multidimensional arrays, Collections, Solution

MultiMap class, Solution, Discussion

MultiMementoCareTaker class, Solution, Discussion

MultiTask class, Discussion

multithreading (see threading)

MultiWriter class, Solution

MyKeys.snk file, Solution

N

n-ary trees, Problem, See Also

named groups in regular expressions, Problem, Discussion

named pipes, Problem, See Also

NamedPipeClient class, Solution, Discussion

NamedPipeInterop class, Solution

NamedPipeServer class, Solution, Discussion

NamedPipesInterop class, Discussion

NameValueCollection class, Collections

narrowing conversions, Discussion, Solution

NetworkCredential class, Discussion

networking, Networking

accessing Internet through web proxy, Problem, See Also
converting host name to IP address, Problem
downloading data from server, Problem
form execution, simulating, Problem, See Also
forming absolute URI, Problem
named pipes communicating across network, Problem, See Also
parsing a URI, Problem, See Also
resolving IP address to host name, Problem
sending GET or POST to web server, Problem, See Also
TCP client, creating, Problem
TCP server, creating, Problem, See Also
URL, obtaining HTML from, Problem
web server errors, handling, Problem, See Also

newline character (see EOL character linefeed character)

NodeChangedEvent method, Solution

NodeChangingEvent method, Solution

NodeInsertedEvent method, Solution

NodeInsertingEvent method, Solution

NodeRemovedEvent method, Solution

NodeRemovingevent method, Solution

NoFlags privilege, Discussion

nonblittable objects, Discussion

NotFiniteNumberException exception, Discussion, Solution

notification callbacks (see callbacks)

notifications, raising from non-virtual methods, Discussion

NotifyClient class, Solution

NotifyFilters enumeration, Discussion

NotImplementedException exception, Discussion, Solution, Discussion

NotSupportedException exception, Discussion, Solution, Discussion

NTree class, Solution, Discussion

NTreeNode class, Solution, Discussion

NTreeNodeFactory class, Solution, Discussion

NullReferenceException exception, Solution, Discussion, Discussion, Exception Handling, Discussion, Solution, Solution

NumberOfItems32 counter, Discussion

NumberOfItems64 counter, Discussion

NumberOfItemsHEX32 counter, Discussion

NumberOfItemsHEX64 counter, Discussion

NumberStyles enumeration, Discussion

numeric data types

bitwise complement operator used with, Problem
casting to narrower data type, Problem, See Also
equality between fractions and floating-point values, Problem
pointers to, converting to strings, Problem, See Also
simple, Numbers

numeric promotion, Discussion

numeric values

big flags in, turning on or off, Problem, See Also
breaking large numbers into byte arrays, Problem
casting to narrower data type, Problem, See Also
contained in string, determining, Problem, Discussion
conversions to, Discussion
converting strings to, Problem, Discussion
converting to base 10 from another base, Problem
determining if character is, Problem, See Also
determining if even or odd, Problem
exceptions for, Discussion
formatting strings as, Discussion, Discussion
obtaining most- or least-significant bits of, Problem
regular expression patterns for, Solution
rounding floating-point values, Problem, See Also

NumOfChildren property

BinaryTreeNode class, Solution
NTreeNode class, Solution

O

ObjCache class, Solution

ObjectDisposedException exception, Discussion, Discussion, Exception Handling, Discussion

objects, Problem

(see also classes)

cache for, Problem, See Also

determining objects originating exceptions, Problem

disposal of, ensuring, Problem, See Also

disposed, exception for, Discussion

generating tracing code when creating, Problem, Discussion

initializing with overloaded constructors, Problem, Discussion

locking against critical sections, Solution

methods used on multiple object types, Problem, See Also

nested arrays of, iterating across, Problem, See Also

observing modifications to a Hashtable, Problem, See Also

rolling back changes to, Problem, Discussion

serializing, Problem, See Also

set objects, creating, Problem, See Also

single instance of, Problem, See Also

stored in arrays

searching, Problem, See Also
sorting, Problem, See Also

strings converted to, Problem, See Also

ObjState class, Solution

observer design pattern, Discussion, Discussion

odd values, determining if number is, Problem

one-to-many map, Problem, See Also

OnEntryWritten method, Solution

OnlyOne class, Solution

OnlyStaticOne class, Solution

Open method

File class, Discussion
FileInfo class, Discussion

OpenRead method

File class, Discussion
FileInfo class, Discussion

OpenText method

File class, Discussion
FileInfo class, Discussion

OpenWrite method

File class, Discussion
FileInfo class, Discussion

operators, precedence of, overriding, Solution

(see also specific operators)

out parameter

acting as return parameter, Solution
passing pointers as, Discussion

OutOfMemoryException exception, Exception Handling, Solution

OverflowException exception, Solution, Discussion, Discussion, Solution

OverFlowException exception, Discussion, Discussion

O’Reilly & Associates, contact information for, Comments and Questions

P

P/Invoke method, Classes and Structures

P/Invoke wrapper class, Solution, Solution

parameters

command line, parsing, Problem, See Also
exceptions for, Discussion
out keyword for, Solution
verifying correctness of, Problem, See Also

parentheses (( ))

balanced, Problem
in equations, Solution

Parse method, Solution, Discussion

Enum class, Solution
Line structure, Solution
numeric types, Solution

ParseCmdLine class, Solution

ParsePath method, Solution

ParsePathEnvironmentVariable method, Solution

ParseUri method, Solution

passwords, for user settings data, Solution, Discussion

Path class

GetDirectoryName method, Discussion
GetExtension method, Discussion
GetFileName method, Discussion
GetFileNameWithoutExtension method, Discussion
GetPathRoot method, Discussion
GetTempFileName method, Solution
GetTempPath method, Solution
InvalidPathChars field, Solution, Discussion
PathSeparator field, Solution, Discussion

path name, regular expression pattern for, Solution

paths

parsing, Problem
parsing in environment variables, Problem, See Also
separator character for, Solution, Discussion
using in file functions, Discussion
verifying syntax and existence of, Problem, See Also

PathSeparator field, Path class, Solution, Discussion

PathTooLongException exception, Solution

patterns (see design patterns regular expressions)

PauseAndCreateFile method, Solution

Peek method, StreamReader class, Solution, Discussion

PeekChar method, BinaryReader class, Discussion

PeekHead method, DblQueue class, Solution

PeekLargest method, PriorityQueue class, Solution

PeekSmallest method, PriorityQueue class, Solution

PeekTail method, DblQueue class, Solution

percents, formatting strings as, Discussion

performance

critical sections and, Discussion
exception handling and, Exception Handling, Discussion
GetHashCode method used to test equality, Solution
observer design pattern and, Discussion
regular expressions and, Problem, See Also
reversing arrays and, Problem, See Also

performance counters

averages calculated by, Problem, See Also
in .NET Framework, Discussion
simple counters, Problem, See Also

PerformanceCounter class, Discussion, Discussion

permissions

asserting safely, Problem, See Also
for assemblies, Problem, See Also
for reflections, Reflection, Discussion

phone number, regular expression patterns for, Solution

pipes, named, Problem, See Also

Platform Invoke method (see P/Invoke method)

PlatformNotSupportedException exception, Solution

pluggable protocols, exceptions for, Discussion

pointers

arrays of, Problem, See Also
comparing, Problem
controlling changes to when passed to methods, Problem, See Also
dangling, Discussion
navigating arrays with, Problem, See Also
null, checking for, Discussion
passing as out or ref parameter, Discussion
passing by reference, Solution, Discussion, Solution
passing by value, Solution, Discussion
switching unknown pointer types, Problem, See Also
to an array element, returning, Problem, See Also
to an array of bytes, Solution
to fixed arrays, manipulating, Problem
to numeric data types, converting to strings, Problem, See Also
to unknown types, arrays of, Problem, See Also
unsafe code and, Unsafe Code
void, Solution, Solution, Discussion

PolicyException exception, Solution

polymorphism

foreach method and, Problem, See Also
implementing with abstract base class, Problem, Discussion
implementing with concrete class, Discussion
implementing with interfaces, Discussion, Problem, See Also
interfaces implementing, Solution, See Also

POST request, sending to web server, Problem, See Also

Pow method, Math class, Solution

preprocessor directives, allowing or preventing compilation using, Solution

PreventLossOfException method, Solution, Discussion

Print method, BinaryTree class, Solution

PrintDepthFirst method

BinaryTreeNode class, Solution
NTreeNode class, Solution

priority queue, Problem, See Also

PriorityQueue class, Solution

Process class

Responding property, Discussion
StartInfo property, Solution

processes

launching console utilities with, Problem
not responding, determining, Problem, Discussion

ProcessInvoice method, Solution

ProcessStartInfo class, Solution

profiling tools, Solution, See Also

properties, parameters for, verifying correctness of, Problem, See Also

protocol, pluggable, exceptions for, Discussion

proxy

accessing Internet through, Problem, See Also
used for security, Solution, See Also

proxy design pattern, Solution, Discussion

punctuation, determining if character is, Problem, See Also

Pythagorean theorem, Solution

Q

QueryXML method, Solution

Queue class, snapshot of, Collections, Problem

(see also collections)

queues

double-queue, Problem, See Also
priority, Problem, See Also

quotes, on command line, Discussion

R

radians

converting degrees to, Problem
converting to degrees, Problem

Random class, Solution

random number generator, Problem

range, determining if character is in, Problem

RankException exception, Solution

RateOfCountsPerSecond32 counter, Discussion

RateOfCountsPerSecond64 counter, Discussion

RawFraction counter, Discussion

RdGenerateSecretInitVector method, CryptoString class, Discussion

RdGenerateSecretKey method, CryptoString class, Discussion

Read method

BinaryReader class, Discussion
FileStream class, Discussion
StreamReader class, Solution, Discussion
XMLTextReader class, Solution
XmlTextReader class, Solution

ReadAllBufferedLog method, Solution

ReadAllBufferedLogBlock method, Solution

ReadAllLog method, Solution

ReadAllLogAsBytes method, Solution

ReadBlock method, StreamReader class, Solution

ReadByte method, FileStream class, Discussion

ReaderDecorator class, Solution, Discussion

ReaderWriterLock class, Solution, Discussion

ReadFile method, Solution

ReadLine method, StreamReader class, Solution, Solution, Solution, Discussion

ReadLogByLines method, Solution

ReadLogPeeking method, Solution

ReadNestedObjects method, Discussion

readonly field, Problem, See Also

ReadSensitiveData method, SecretFile class, Solution

ReadToEnd method, StreamReader class, Solution, Discussion

ReceiveInvoice method, FulfillmentEnvelope XML

ref parameter, passing pointers as, Discussion

reference types, unsafe code and, Unsafe Code

Reflect class, Discussion

reflection, Reflection

dynamically invoking members using, Problem, See Also
handling exceptions generated by methods using, Problem, See Also
permissions for, Reflection, Discussion, Solution, Discussion

ReflectionEmit privilege, Reflection, Discussion

ReflectionException method, Discussion

ReflectionTypeLoadException exception, Solution

Regasm.exe command-line tool, Solution

Regex class

CompileToAssembly method, Solution, Discussion
IsMatch method, Discussion
Match method, Solution, Discussion
Matches method, Solution, Discussion, Solution
Replace method, Solution, Discussion, Solution, Discussion
Split method, Solution

Regex object, Regular Expressions, Discussion

RegExUtilities class, ExtractGroupings method, Solution

Register for COM interop field, in project properties, Solution

RegistryKey class

changing maximum event log size using, Discussion
determining sources for event logs using, Discussion

Regular Expression Pocket Reference (O’Reilly), See Also

regular expressions, Regular Expressions, Discussion

balanced, determining, Problem, See Also
books about, See Also
compiling, Problem, See Also
conditionally replacing matching text with a new string, Problem, See Also
counting lines of text using, Problem, See Also
documenting, Problem
finding last match in a string, Problem
finding specific occurrences of a match, Problem, See Also
finding substrings in strings using, Problem, See Also
groups in, Problem, See Also
list of common patterns for, Problem, See Also
performance of, Problem, See Also
replacing matching text with a new string, Problem, See Also
returning line in which match is found, Problem, See Also
testing for numeric value in a string using, Solution
tokenizers using, Problem, See Also
verifying syntax of, Problem

ReleaseComObject method, Marshal class, Solution

RemoteComponentException class, Solution, Discussion

RemotingException exception, Solution

RemotingTimeoutException exception, Solution

Remove method

MultiMap class, Solution, Discussion
Set class, Solution
string class, Solution, Discussion
StringBuilder class, Discussion

RemoveAt method, Set class, Solution

RemoveFromArray method, Solution

RemoveLeftNode method, BinaryTreeNode class, Solution

RemoveNode method, NTreeNode class, Solution, Discussion

RemoveRightNode method, BinaryTreeNode class, Solution

RenameFile method, Solution

Replace method

Regex class, Solution, Discussion

MatchEvaluator delegate for, Solution, Discussion

string class, Discussion

StringBuilder class, Discussion

Resolve method, Dns class, Solution, Solution

resources, unmanaged, disposing of, Problem, See Also

Responding property, Process class, Discussion

ResponseCategories enumeration, Solution

RestoreObj method, Solution

ReThrowException method, Discussion

ReturnDimensions method, Solution

ReturnTypeFilter method, Solution

Reverse method, Array class, Solution

Reverse2DimArray method, Solution

ReverseJaggedArray method, Solution

RevertAssert method, Discussion

Richter, Jeffrey (“Safe Thread Synchronization”), Discussion

Right property, BinaryTreeNode class, Solution

RightToLeft constant, Solution

Rijndael algorithm, Discussion, Solution

RijndaelManaged class

GenerateIV method, Discussion
GenerateKey method, Discussion

RNGCryptoServiceProvider class, Solution

Round method, Math class, Solution

RoundDown method, Solution

rounding floating-point values, Problem, See Also

RoundUp method, Solution

RunClient method, Solution

RunProcessToReadStdIn method, Solution

RunServer method, Solution

S

Safe Thread Synchronization (MSDN Magazine), See Also

SafeArrayRankMismatchException exception, Solution

SafeArrayTypeMismatchException exception, Solution

SaferMemberAccess class, Solution

SampleCounter counter, Discussion

SampleFraction counter, Discussion

SaveObj method, Solution

SaveSensitiveData method, SecretFile class, Solution

sbyte data type, Numbers, Problem, See Also

scientific notation, formatting strings as, Discussion

sealed classes, adding events to, Problem, See Also

SearchDepthFirst method, BinaryTree class, Solution

searches

array elements, Problem, See Also, Problem, Problem, Discussion
binary trees, Solution, Discussion
characters in strings, Problem, Discussion, Solution
event logs, Problem, See Also
files or directories, Problem, See Also
groups returned by, Problem, See Also
interfaces, Problem, See Also
members, Problem, See Also
n-ary trees, Solution, Discussion
queue items, Solution
set objects, Solution
strings in files, Problem, See Also
substrings in strings, Problem, See Also, Problem, Problem, See Also, Problem, Problem, See Also
tokens in strings, Problem, See Also, Problem, See Also

SearchInterfacesOfType method, Solution

SearchMembers method, Solution

SearchType class, Solution, Solution

SecretFile class, Solution

ReadSensitiveData method, Solution
SaveSensitiveData method, Solution

SecureFunction method, Solution, Discussion

security, Security

(see also permissions)

access to types in an assembly, controlling, Problem, See Also

assemblies

minimizing attack surface of, Problem
preventing malicious modifications to, Problem, See Also
verifying permissions for, Problem, See Also

asserting a permission safely, Problem, See Also

clearing cryptography information after using, Problem

encryption and decryption

of files, Problem, See Also
of strings, Problem, See Also

event logs and, Problem, Discussion

random number generator, Problem

regular expression patterns and, Problem

storing data securely, Problem, See Also

thread-specific data, storing privately, Problem, See Also

verifying strings are uncorrupted during transmission, Problem, See Also, Problem, See Also

SecurityAction enumeration, Solution

SecurityException exception, Solution, Discussion, Discussion, Discussion

SecurityManager class, IsGranted method, Solution

Seek method, FileStream class, Solution

SeekOrigin enumeration, Discussion

SEHException exception, Solution

semicolon (;), on command line, Discussion

separator, determining if character is, Problem, See Also

serializable types, finding in an assembly, Problem, See Also

SerializationException exception, Solution

serializer, choosing, Problem, See Also

server (see web server)

ServerException exception, Solution

Set class, Solution

set objects, Discussion

creating, Problem, See Also
difference of, Problem, Solution, Discussion
equivalence and nonequivalence of, Solution, Discussion
intersection of, Problem, Solution, Discussion
subset of, Solution, Discussion
superset of, Solution, Discussion
union of, Problem, Solution, Discussion

SetCreationTime method

Directory class, Solution
File class, Solution

SetCustomLogMaxSize method, Solution

SetData method, Thread class, Discussion

SetLastAccessTime method

Directory class, Solution
File class, Solution

SetLastWriteTime method

Directory class, Solution
File class, Solution

SetWindowsHookEx function, Discussion

shallow copying, Solution, Discussion

ShallowClone class, Solution

shift and add hash algorithm, The shift and add hash

ShiftAndAddHash method, The shift and add hash

short data type, Numbers

SignedNumber structure, Solution

SignedNumberWithText structure, Solution

significant bits of an integer, determining, Problem

silent thread termination, Problem, See Also

simple factory design pattern, Solution, Discussion

simple hash algorithm, The simple hash

simple types, Numbers, Problem, See Also

SimpleClass class, Discussion

SimpleHash method, The simple hash

Sin method, Math class, Solution

sine function, Discussion

single quotes ('), on command line, Discussion

singleton design pattern, Problem, See Also, Discussion

SkipVerification privilege, Unsafe Code

slash (/), on command line, Discussion

SN.EXE program, Solution

SomeDataOriginator class, Solution

Sort method, Array class and ArrayList class, Problem, See Also

SortedArrayList class, Solution

SortedList class, Collections

(see also collections)
Add method, Discussion, See Also
Contains method, Discussion, See Also
ContainsKey method, Discussion, See Also
ContainsValue method, Discussion, See Also

SourceForge web site, Solution

space, determining if character is, Problem, See Also

SpawnManyThreads method, Solution

Split method

Regex class, Solution
string class, Solution, Discussion, Solution, Discussion

Sqrt method, Math class, Solution

square brackets ([]), balanced, Problem

Square class, Solution

Stack class, Collections

(see also collections)
finding unbalanced strings using, Discussion
snapshot of, Problem

stack trace, obtaining without exception object, Problem, See Also

StackOverflowException exception, Exception Handling, Solution

StackTrace class, iterating through like an array, Problem, See Also

StackTrace method, Environment class, Discussion

StackTrace property, Environment class, Discussion

StackTraceArray class, Solution

standard input, reading from and responding to, Problem

StartInfo property, Process class, Solution

StartsWith method, string class, Solution

static fields

initializing with static constructors, Solution, Discussion
per-thread, Problem, See Also

static methods, when to use, Discussion, Discussion

StatusCode property, HttpWebResponse class, Solution

StreamReader class, Solution, Discussion

Peek method, Solution, Discussion
Read method, Solution, Discussion
ReadBlock method, Solution
ReadLine method, Solution, Solution, Solution, Discussion
ReadToEnd method, Solution, Discussion

streams (see file streams)

StreamWriter class, Solution, Discussion

Write method, Discussion
WriteLine method, Solution, Discussion

string class

Compare method, Solution, Solution
EndsWith method, Solution
Equals method, Solution, Discussion
Format method, Solution, Discussion
IndexOf method, Solution, Solution, Discussion
IndexOfAny method, Solution, Discussion, Solution
Insert method, Solution
Intern method, Solution, See Also
IsInterned method, Solution, See Also
Join method, Solution
Remove method, Solution, Discussion
Replace method, Discussion
Split method, Solution, Discussion, Solution, Discussion
StartsWith method, Solution
ToUpper method, Discussion
Trim method, Solution
TrimEnd method, Solution
TrimStart method, Solution

string concatenation hash algorithm, The string concatenation hash

string data type, Strings and Characters

StringBuilder class, Strings and Characters

Append method, Discussion
Capacity property, Solution, Discussion
constructor for, Solution
EnsureCapacity method, Discussion
improving performance of, Problem, See Also
Insert method, Discussion
Length property, Discussion
Remove method, Discussion
Replace method, Discussion

StringCollection class, Collections

StringDictionary class, Collections

StringReader class, decorating, Solution, Discussion

StringReaderHash class, Solution

strings

array of, formatting as delimited text, Problem

balanced, determining, Problem, See Also

classes represented as, Problem, See Also

comparing, Problem, Problem, See Also

conditionally replacing text within, Problem, See Also

conversions to, Problem, Discussion

converting from pointers to numeric data types, Problem, See Also

converting to value type, Problem, Discussion

counting lines of text in, Problem, See Also

decoding from Base64 to byte array, Problem

delimited, extracting items from, Problem

displaying enumerations as, Problem, See Also

encoding byte array as, Problem

encrypting and decrypting, Problem, See Also

ensuring maximum number of characters in, Problem

formatting data in, Problem, See Also

hash values appended to, Solution, Discussion, Problem, See Also

inserting character or string into, Problem, See Also

interning, Solution, See Also

iterating over characters of, Problem

numeric value in, determining, Problem, Discussion

objects represented by, converting to objects, Problem, See Also

passing to method as byte array, Problem, See Also

performance of, with StringBuilder class, Problem, See Also

removing characters at head or tail of, Problem

removing or replacing characters in, Problem, See Also

replacing text within, Problem, See Also

returning all lines in an ArrayList, Discussion

searching, Problem, See Also, Problem, See Also

finding last matching substring in, Problem
finding specific occurrences of a match, Problem, See Also
groups resulting from, Problem, See Also

searching for characters in, Problem, Discussion, Solution

searching for string at head or tail of, Problem

searching for strings in, Problem, See Also

searching for tokens in, Problem, See Also, Problem, See Also

structures represented as, Problem, See Also

type of characters in, determining, Problem, See Also

verifying they are uncorrupted during transmission, Problem, See Also, Problem, See Also

XML, handling invalid characters in, Problem, See Also

StringWriter class, decorating, Solution, Discussion

strongly typed collections, Discussion

structures, Classes and Structures, Classes and Structures

Equals method for, improving performance of, Problem, See Also

GetHashCode method for, overriding, Discussion

operating as union types, Problem, See Also

performance of, Classes and Structures

polymorphism for, Problem, See Also

represented as a string, Problem, See Also

static fields, initializing, Problem, See Also

stored in arrays

searching, Problem, See Also
sorting, Problem, See Also

strings converted to, Problem, See Also

when to use, Classes and Structures

subset of set objects, Solution, Discussion

SUDSGeneratorException exception, Solution

SUDSParserException exception, Solution

superset of set objects, Solution, Discussion

surrogate character, determining if character is, Problem, See Also

SwapElementsInArray method, Solution

Switch class, custom, Problem, See Also

(see also BooleanSwitch class; TraceSwitch class)

Switch method, Solution

switches element, application configuration file, Discussion

symbol, determining if character is, Problem, See Also

SymmetricAlgorithm class, Solution

Clear method, Solution

SynchronizationLockException exception, Solution

synchronous delegates, converting to asynchronous delegates, Problem, See Also

SyncInvoke delegate, Solution

system requirements for examples in this book, What You Need to Use This Book

System.Collections namespace, Collections

System.Diagnostics namespace, Diagnostics

System.Text.RegularExpressions namespace, Strings and Characters

SystemException exception, Exception Handling, Solution

T

tags, determining if balanced, Problem, See Also

(see also HTML; XML)

TakeSnapshotOfList method, Solution

Tan method, Math class, Solution

tangent function, Discussion

TargetException exception, Solution

TargetInvocationException exception, Solution, Discussion, Solution

TargetParameterCountException exception, Solution

Task class, Solution, Discussion, Discussion

TCP client, creating, Problem

TCP server, creating, Problem, See Also

TcpClient class, Solution, Discussion

TcpListener class, Solution

temperatures

converting Celsius to Fahrenheit, Problem
converting Fahrenheit to Celsius, Problem

ternary operator (?:), Discussion

TestDynamicInvocation method, Solution

TestInit class, Solution

TestMediaABC method, Solution

TestReceivedStringHash method, Solution, Discussion

TestSort method, Discussion, Discussion

TestWatcher method, Solution

text (see characters strings)

theorems for Boolean equations, Solution

Thread class

AllocateDataSlot method, Solution, Discussion
AllocateNamedDataSlot method, Solution, Discussion
FreeNamedDataSlot method, Discussion
GetData method, Discussion
GetNamedDataSlot method, Discussion
Join method, Solution
SetData method, Discussion

thread local storage (TLS), Solution, Discussion

ThreadAbortException exception, Solution

threading, Threading

article about, See Also

asynchronous delegates

notification of completion, Problem, See Also
polling, Problem, See Also
timing out, Problem, See Also

exception event handlers for, Discussion

per-thread static fields, Problem, See Also

silent thread termination, Problem, See Also

synchronizing reading and writing of resources, Problem, See Also

thread pool requests, notification of availability, Problem, See Also

thread-safe access to internal members, Problem, See Also

thread-specific data, storing privately, Problem, See Also

timer, configuring, Problem, See Also

waiting for all threads in pool to finish, Problem

worker thread completion, waiting for, Problem

Threading.Timer class, Solution, See Also

ThreadInterruptedException exception, Solution, Discussion

ThreadPool class

GetAvailableThreads method, Solution, Discussion, Solution
GetMaxThreads method, Solution
timers and, Discussion

ThreadStart delegate, Solution

ThreadStateException exception, Solution, Discussion

ThreadStaticAttribute attribute, Solution, Discussion

ThreadStaticField class, Discussion

ThreadStopException exception, Solution

throw keyword, Solution, Problem

(see also exception handling; exceptions)

tilde (~) (see bitwise complement operator)

time, regular expression patterns for, Solution

TimeOutAsyncDelegate method, Discussion

TimeoutException exception, Discussion

TimeOutWakeAsyncDelegate method, Solution, Discussion

Timer class, Solution, See Also

timer, configuring, Problem, See Also

Timer100Ns counter, Discussion

Timer100nsInverse counter, Discussion

TimerCallback delegate, Discussion

timestamps

of directories, Solution
of files, Solution, Discussion

TLS (thread local storage), Solution, Discussion

ToArray method

DblQueue class, Solution
PriorityQueue class, Solution

ToASCIIByteArray method, Solution

ToBase64CharArray method, Convert class, Solution

ToBoolean method, Convert class, Discussion

ToByte method, Convert class, Discussion

ToChar method, Convert class, Discussion

ToDateTime method, Convert class, Discussion

ToDecimal method, Convert class, Discussion

ToDouble method, Convert class, Discussion

ToInt16 method, Convert class, Discussion

ToInt32 method, Convert class, Solution, Discussion

ToInt64 method, Convert class, Discussion

Tokenize method, Solution

tokenizers, Problem, See Also, Problem, See Also

tokens, breaking strings into, Problem, See Also, Problem, See Also

ToSByte method, Convert class, Discussion

ToSingle method, Convert class, Discussion

ToString method, Problem, See Also, Discussion, Discussion

formatting with, Discussion
using with enumerations, Solution, Discussion
using with exceptions, Solution, Solution, Discussion

ToUInt16 method, Convert class, Discussion

ToUInt32 method, Convert class, Discussion

ToUInt64 method, Convert class, Discussion

ToUnicodeByteArray method, Solution

ToUpper method, string class, Discussion

Trace class, Diagnostics

(see also Debug class)
interchanging with Debug class, Diagnostics

TRACE directive, Discussion

trace element, application configuration file, Discussion

Traceable class, Discussion, Solution

TraceFactory class, Solution

TraceListener class, Solution, Solution

TraceSwitch class, Solution, Discussion, Problem

tracing, Diagnostics

(see also debugging)
configuration file to turn on, Solution, Discussion
customizing levels for, Problem, See Also
enabling for specific components, Problem, See Also
generating code for during object creation, Problem, Discussion
output from production application, Problem, Discussion
selecting levels of, Solution, Discussion
stack trace, Problem, See Also
XML output for, Problem, See Also

Transform method, XslTransform class, Discussion

TransformXML method, Solution

trees, Discussion

(see also binary trees; n-ary trees)

TreeSize property, BinaryTree class, Solution

triangles

calculating length of a side for, Problem
calculating one angle of, Problem

trigonometric functions

calculating an angle of right triangle using, Discussion
calculating length of a side of right triangle using, Discussion
converting degrees to radians for, Problem
converting radians to degrees for, Problem

Trim method, string class, Solution

TrimEnd method, string class, Solution

TrimStart method, string class, Solution

TrimToSize method

DblQueue class, Solution
PriorityQueue class, Solution

TripleDES algorithm, Solution, Discussion

try-catch blocks (see catch blocks)

try-catch-finally blocks (see catch blocks finally blocks)

try-finally blocks (see finally blocks)

TryEnter method, Monitor class, Discussion

TryParse method, Solution

TurnBitOff method, Solution

TurnBitOn method, Solution

two-dimensional arrays, reversing, Problem

Type class

FindInterfaces method, Solution
FindMembers method, Solution
Get methods, Solution
GetInterface method, Problem
GetInterfaces method, Problem
GetMember method, Problem, Solution, Discussion, Discussion
GetMembers method, Problem
GetType method, Discussion
IsSubclassOf method, Solution
searching for interfaces with, Problem, See Also
searching for members with, Problem, See Also

TypeFilter delegate, Solution, Discussion

TypeInformation privilege, Reflection, Discussion

TypeInitializationException exception, Solution, Problem, See Also

TypeLoadException exception, Solution

types

inheritance hierarchies of, in assemblies, Problem, See Also
nested, finding in assembly, Problem, See Also
serializable, finding in an assembly, Problem, See Also
simple, Problem, See Also
subclasses of, in an assembly, Problem, See Also

TypeUnloadedException exception, Solution

U

uint data type, Numbers

ulong data type, Numbers

UnauthorizedAccessException exception, Solution, Discussion

unchecked context, Discussion, Discussion

unchecked keyword, Discussion

UnhookWindowsHookEx function, Discussion

UnicodeEncoding class

GetBytes method, Solution
GetString method, Discussion

Uniform Resource Identifier (see URI)

union of set objects, Problem, Solution, Discussion

union types, structures similar to, Problem, See Also

UnionOf method, Set class, Solution, Discussion

Unlock method, FileStream class, Discussion

unmanaged resources, disposing of, Problem, See Also

unnamed groups in regular expressions, Discussion

unsafe code, Unsafe Code

(see also managed code)
arrays of pointers, Problem, See Also
arrays of pointers to unknown types, Problem, See Also
breaking large numbers into byte arrays, Problem
converting pointers to numeric data types to strings, Problem, See Also
navigating arrays with pointers, Problem, See Also
pointers passed to methods, controlling changes to, Problem, See Also
pointers to fixed arrays, manipulating, Problem
pointers, comparing, Problem
returning pointers to an element in an array, Problem, See Also
unknown pointer types, switching, Problem, See Also

UploadValues method, WebClient class, Solution, Discussion

URI (Uniform Resource Identifier)

absolute, forming from base and relative URI, Problem
parsing, Problem, See Also

Uri class, Solution, Discussion, Solution

UriFormatException exception, Discussion, Discussion

URL

obtaining HTML from, Problem
reading XML data from, Problem

UseChecked method, Solution

UseMedia method, Solution

UserSettings class, Solution

ushort data type, Numbers

using statement, Solution

UsingAnUnmanagedFileHandle method, Solution

UTF-16 encoded values (see Unicode values)

V

ValidateXML method, Solution

ValidShape enumeration, Solution

Value method, BinaryTreeNode class, Solution

Value method, NTreeNode class, Solution

value types

converting strings to, Problem, Discussion
unsafe code and, Unsafe Code

Values property, Hashtable class, Solution, Discussion

variable, type of, determining, Problem, See Also

vector array, Discussion

VerificationException exception, Solution

VerifyRegEx method, Solution

VerifyResponse method, Solution, Discussion

versioning, implementing with multiple entry points, Problem, See Also

versions, comparing for executable modules, Problem, See Also

ViewModifyDirAttr method, Solution

ViewModifyFileAttr method, Solution

Visual Basic .NET, compared to C#, Preface

Visual Studio .NET

books about, What Was Left Out
requirements for code samples in this book, What You Need to Use This Book
versions used for this book, Platform Notes

void pointers, Solution, Solution, Discussion

W

WaitForChanged method, FileSystemWatcher class, Solution, Discussion

WaitForChangedResult structure, Discussion

WaitForZipCreation method, Solution

WaitOne method, WaitHandle class, Solution, Discussion

WarningException exception, Discussion

WatchForAppEvent method, Solution

WeakReferenceException exception, Solution

web proxy, accessing Internet through, Problem, See Also

web server

downloading data from, Problem
errors from, handling, Problem, See Also
sending GET or POST request to, Problem, See Also

web sites

C# sample code, Preface
C# sample code for this book, Who This Book Is For
for this book, Comments and Questions
MSDN Library, What Was Left Out
O’Reilly & Associates, Comments and Questions
profiling tools, See Also
reading XML data from, Problem
SourceForge, Log4Net software, Solution
Visual Studio .NET version differences, Platform Notes

WebClient class

DownloadData method, Solution
DownloadFile method, Solution
UploadValues method, Solution, Discussion

WebException exception, Discussion

WebProxy class, Solution

WebRequest class, Solution, Discussion

WebResponse class, Discussion

whitespace, determining if character is, Problem, See Also

WH_KEYBOARD hook, Solution, See Also

wildcard character (*), Discussion

wildcards

searching for files or directories using, Problem, See Also
searching for members in assembly using, Problem, See Also

Windows keyboard hook, Problem, See Also

Windows NT 4.0, ASP.NET and .NET web services not supported for, What You Need to Use This Book

Windows operating system, requirements for code samples in this book, What You Need to Use This Book

words, breaking up strings into, Problem, See Also, Problem, See Also

Worker class, Solution

Write method

BinaryWriter class, Discussion
FileStream class, Discussion
StreamWriter class, Discussion

WriteByte method, FileStream class, Discussion

WriteCData method, XmlTextWriter class, Solution

WriteElementString method, XmlTextWriter class, Solution

WriteLine method

formatting data using, Solution
newline characters and, Solution
StreamWriter class, Solution, Discussion
writing to multiple files using, Solution

WriteNodeInfo method, Solution

WriterDecorator class, Solution, Discussion

WriteToFileHandle method, Solution

WriteToLog method, Solution

X

XDR schema, validating XML conformance to, Problem, See Also

XML (Extensible Markup Language), XML

breaking into constituent parts, Problem, See Also
constructing from separate constituent pieces, Problem, See Also
converting to HTML, Problem, See Also
creating programmatically, Problem, See Also
DOM model for, Discussion
exceptions for, Discussion
finding tags in an XML string, Solution
invalid characters in, handling, Problem, See Also
Log4Net logging software for, Solution
querying contents of, Problem, See Also
reading XML data from the web, Problem
reading XML data in document order, Problem, See Also
tags, checking if balanced, Problem, See Also
trace output using, Problem, See Also
tracking changes to, Problem, See Also
validating conformance to a schema, Problem, See Also

XML configuration file (see application configuration file)

XmlAttributes class, Discussion

XmlDocument class, Solution

assembling an XML document using, Solution, Discussion
breaking apart an XML document using, Solution
constructing XML data using, Solution
handling invalid characters with, Solution
when to use, XML, Discussion, Discussion

XmlElement class, Solution, Discussion

XmlException exception, Discussion

XmlNode class, Clone method, Discussion

XmlResolver class, Discussion

XmlSchemaCollection class, Discussion

XmlSecureResolver class, Discussion

XmlTextReader class, XML, Solution, Solution, Discussion, Discussion

XmlTextWriter class, XML, Solution, Discussion

WriteCData method, Solution
WriteElementString method, Solution

XMLTraceListener class, Solution

XmlUrlResolver class, Discussion

XmlValidatingReader class, Solution, Discussion

XPath, querying XML data using, Solution

XPathDocument class, Solution

XPathNavigator class, Solution

XPathNodeIterator class, Solution

XSD schema, validating XML conformance to, Problem, See Also

XSLT stylesheet, transforming XML using, Solution, Discussion

XslTransform class, Solution, Discussion

Z

zip code, regular expression patterns for, Solution

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