Contents
About ................................................................................................................................................................................... 1
Chapter 1: Getting started with .NET Framework ........................................................................................ 2
Section 1.1: Hello World in C# ........................................................................................................................................ 2
Section 1.2: Hello World in F# ....................................................................................................................................... 3
Section 1.3: Hello World in Visual Basic .NET .............................................................................................................. 3
Section 1.4: Hello World in C++/CLI .............................................................................................................................. 3
Section 1.5: Hello World in IL ......................................................................................................................................... 3
Section 1.6: Hello World in PowerShell ......................................................................................................................... 4
Section 1.7: Hello World in Nemerle ............................................................................................................................. 4
Section 1.8: Hello World in Python (IronPython) ......................................................................................................... 4
Section 1.9: Hello World in Oxygene ............................................................................................................................ 4
Section 1.10: Hello World in Boo ................................................................................................................................... 4
Chapter 2: Strings ......................................................................................................................................................... 5
Section 2.1: Count characters ....................................................................................................................................... 5
Section 2.2: Count distinct characters ......................................................................................................................... 5
Section 2.3: Convert string to/from another encoding ............................................................................................. 5
Section 2.4: Comparing strings .................................................................................................................................... 6
Section 2.5: Count occurrences of a character .......................................................................................................... 6
Section 2.6: Split string into fixed length blocks ......................................................................................................... 6
Section 2.7: Object.ToString() virtual method ............................................................................................................ 7
Section 2.8: Immutability of strings ............................................................................................................................. 8
Chapter 3: DateTime parsing ................................................................................................................................. 9
Section 3.1: ParseExact .................................................................................................................................................. 9
Section 3.2: TryParse .................................................................................................................................................. 10
Section 3.3: TryParseExact ......................................................................................................................................... 12
Chapter 4: Dictionaries ............................................................................................................................................ 13
Section 4.1: Initializing a Dictionary with a Collection Initializer .............................................................................. 13
Section 4.2: Adding to a Dictionary ........................................................................................................................... 13
Section 4.3: Getting a value from a dictionary ......................................................................................................... 13
Section 4.4: Make a Dictionary<string, T> with Case-Insensivitve keys ................................................................. 14
Section 4.5: IEnumerable to Dictionary (≥ .NET 3.5) ................................................................................................ 14
Section 4.6: Enumerating a Dictionary ...................................................................................................................... 14
Section 4.7: ConcurrentDictionary<TKey, TValue> (from .NET 4.0) ...................................................................... 15
Section 4.8: Dictionary to List ..................................................................................................................................... 16
Section 4.9: Removing from a Dictionary ................................................................................................................. 16
Section 4.10: ContainsKey(TKey) ............................................................................................................................... 17
Section 4.11: ConcurrentDictionary augmented with Lazy'1 reduces duplicated computation ........................... 17
Chapter 5: Collections .............................................................................................................................................. 19
Section 5.1: Using collection initializers ...................................................................................................................... 19
Section 5.2: Stack ........................................................................................................................................................ 19
Section 5.3: Creating an initialized List with Custom Types .................................................................................... 20
Section 5.4: Queue ....................................................................................................................................................... 22
Chapter 6: ReadOnlyCollections ......................................................................................................................... 24
Section 6.1: Creating a ReadOnlyCollection .............................................................................................................. 24
Section 6.2: Updating a ReadOnlyCollection ........................................................................................................... 24
Section 6.3: Warning: Elements in a ReadOnlyCollection are not inherently read-only ...................................... 24
,Chapter 7: Stack and Heap ................................................................................................................................... 26
Section 7.1: Value types in use ................................................................................................................................... 26
Section 7.2: Reference types in use ........................................................................................................................... 26
Chapter 8: LINQ ........................................................................................................................................................... 28
Section 8.1: SelectMany (flat map) ............................................................................................................................ 28
Section 8.2: Where (filter) ........................................................................................................................................... 29
Section 8.3: Any ........................................................................................................................................................... 29
Section 8.4: GroupJoin ................................................................................................................................................ 30
Section 8.5: Except ...................................................................................................................................................... 31
Section 8.6: Zip ............................................................................................................................................................ 31
Section 8.7: Aggregate (fold) ..................................................................................................................................... 31
Section 8.8: ToLookup ................................................................................................................................................ 32
Section 8.9: Intersect ................................................................................................................................................... 32
Section 8.10: Concat .................................................................................................................................................... 32
Section 8.11: All ............................................................................................................................................................. 32
Section 8.12: Sum ......................................................................................................................................................... 33
Section 8.13: SequenceEqual ...................................................................................................................................... 33
Section 8.14: Min ........................................................................................................................................................... 33
Section 8.15: Distinct .................................................................................................................................................... 34
Section 8.16: Count ...................................................................................................................................................... 34
Section 8.17: Cast ......................................................................................................................................................... 34
Section 8.18: Range ..................................................................................................................................................... 34
Section 8.19: ThenBy ................................................................................................................................................... 35
Section 8.20: Repeat ................................................................................................................................................... 35
Section 8.21: Empty ..................................................................................................................................................... 35
Section 8.22: Select (map) .......................................................................................................................................... 35
Section 8.23: OrderBy ................................................................................................................................................. 36
Section 8.24: OrderByDescending ............................................................................................................................. 36
Section 8.25: Contains ................................................................................................................................................. 36
Section 8.26: First (find) .............................................................................................................................................. 36
Section 8.27: Single ..................................................................................................................................................... 37
Section 8.28: Last ........................................................................................................................................................ 37
Section 8.29: LastOrDefault ....................................................................................................................................... 37
Section 8.30: SingleOrDefault .................................................................................................................................... 38
Section 8.31: FirstOrDefault ........................................................................................................................................ 38
Section 8.32: Skip ......................................................................................................................................................... 38
Section 8.33: Take ....................................................................................................................................................... 39
Section 8.34: Reverse .................................................................................................................................................. 39
Section 8.35: OfType ................................................................................................................................................... 39
Section 8.36: Max ......................................................................................................................................................... 39
Section 8.37: Average ................................................................................................................................................. 39
Section 8.38: GroupBy ................................................................................................................................................. 40
Section 8.39: ToDictionary .......................................................................................................................................... 40
Section 8.40: Union ...................................................................................................................................................... 41
Section 8.41: ToArray .................................................................................................................................................. 42
Section 8.42: ToList ..................................................................................................................................................... 42
Section 8.43: ElementAt .............................................................................................................................................. 42
Section 8.44: ElementAtOrDefault ............................................................................................................................. 42
Section 8.45: SkipWhile ............................................................................................................................................... 42
Section 8.46: TakeWhile .............................................................................................................................................. 43
, Section 8.47: DefaultIfEmpty ...................................................................................................................................... 43
Section 8.48: Join ........................................................................................................................................................ 43
Section 8.49: Left Outer Join ...................................................................................................................................... 44
Chapter 9: ForEach .................................................................................................................................................... 46
Section 9.1: Extension method for IEnumerable ....................................................................................................... 46
Section 9.2: Calling a method on an object in a list ................................................................................................. 46
Chapter 10: Reflection .............................................................................................................................................. 47
Section 10.1: What is an Assembly? ........................................................................................................................... 47
Section 10.2: Compare two objects with reflection .................................................................................................. 47
Section 10.3: Creating Object and setting properties using reflection ................................................................... 48
Section 10.4: How to create an object of T using Reflection .................................................................................. 48
Section 10.5: Getting an attribute of an enum with reflection (and caching it) .................................................... 48
Chapter 11: Expression Trees ................................................................................................................................. 50
Section 11.1: building a predicate of form field == value .......................................................................................... 50
Section 11.2: Simple Expression Tree Generated by the C# Compiler .................................................................... 50
Section 11.3: Expression for retrieving a static field .................................................................................................. 51
Section 11.4: InvocationExpression Class ................................................................................................................... 51
Chapter 12: Custom Types ...................................................................................................................................... 54
Section 12.1: Struct Definition ...................................................................................................................................... 54
Section 12.2: Class Definition ...................................................................................................................................... 54
Chapter 13: Code Contracts ................................................................................................................................... 56
Section 13.1: Contracts for Interfaces ........................................................................................................................ 56
Section 13.2: Installing and Enabling Code Contracts .............................................................................................. 56
Section 13.3: Preconditions ......................................................................................................................................... 58
Section 13.4: Postconditions ........................................................................................................................................ 59
Chapter 14: Settings .................................................................................................................................................. 60
Section 14.1: AppSettings from ConfigurationSettings in .NET 1.x ........................................................................... 60
Section 14.2: Reading AppSettings from ConfigurationManager in .NET 2.0 and later ....................................... 60
Section 14.3: Introduction to strongly-typed application and user settings support from Visual Studio
................................................................................................................................................................................ 61
Section 14.4: Reading strongly-typed settings from custom section of configuration file ................................. 62
Chapter 15: Regular Expressions (System.Text.RegularExpressions) .............................................. 65
Section 15.1: Check if pattern matches input ............................................................................................................ 65
Section 15.2: Remove non alphanumeric characters from string .......................................................................... 65
Section 15.3: Passing Options ..................................................................................................................................... 65
Section 15.4: Match into groups ................................................................................................................................. 65
Section 15.5: Find all matches .................................................................................................................................... 65
Section 15.6: Simple match and replace ................................................................................................................... 66
Chapter 16: File Input/Output ............................................................................................................................... 67
Section 16.1: C# File.Exists() ......................................................................................................................................... 67
Section 16.2: VB WriteAllText ...................................................................................................................................... 67
Section 16.3: VB StreamWriter .................................................................................................................................... 67
Section 16.4: C# StreamWriter ................................................................................................................................... 67
Section 16.5: C# WriteAllText() ................................................................................................................................... 68
Chapter 17: System.IO .............................................................................................................................................. 69
Section 17.1: Reading a text file using StreamReader .............................................................................................. 69
Section 17.2: Serial Ports using System.IO.SerialPorts ............................................................................................. 69
Section 17.3: Reading/Writing Data Using System.IO.File ....................................................................................... 70
Chapter 18: System.IO.File class .......................................................................................................................... 72
, Section 18.1: Delete a file ............................................................................................................................................. 72
Section 18.2: Strip unwanted lines from a text file ................................................................................................... 73
Section 18.3: Convert text file encoding .................................................................................................................... 73
Section 18.4: Enumerate files older than a specified amount ................................................................................. 74
Section 18.5: Move a File from one location to another .......................................................................................... 74
Chapter 19: Reading and writing Zip files ...................................................................................................... 76
Section 19.1: Listing ZIP contents ................................................................................................................................ 76
Section 19.2: Extracting files from ZIP files ............................................................................................................... 76
Section 19.3: Updating a ZIP file ................................................................................................................................. 76
Chapter 20: Managed Extensibility Framework .......................................................................................... 78
Section 20.1: Connecting (Basic) ................................................................................................................................ 78
Section 20.2: Exporting a Type (Basic) ..................................................................................................................... 78
Section 20.3: Importing (Basic) .................................................................................................................................. 79
Chapter 21: SpeechRecognitionEngine class to recognize speech .................................................... 80
Section 21.1: Asynchronously recognizing speech based on a restricted set of phrases .................................... 80
Section 21.2: Asynchronously recognizing speech for free text dictation ............................................................. 80
Chapter 22: System.Runtime.Caching.MemoryCache (ObjectCache) .............................................. 81
Section 22.1: Adding Item to Cache (Set) .................................................................................................................. 81
Section 22.2: System.Runtime.Caching.MemoryCache (ObjectCache) ................................................................. 81
Chapter 23: System.Reflection.Emit namespace ....................................................................................... 83
Section 23.1: Creating an assembly dynamically ..................................................................................................... 83
Chapter 24: .NET Core ............................................................................................................................................. 86
Section 24.1: Basic Console App ................................................................................................................................. 86
Chapter 25: ADO.NET ................................................................................................................................................ 87
Section 25.1: Best Practices - Executing Sql Statements ......................................................................................... 87
Section 25.2: Executing SQL statements as a command ....................................................................................... 88
Section 25.3: Using common interfaces to abstract away vendor specific classes ............................................ 89
Chapter 26: Dependency Injection ..................................................................................................................... 90
Section 26.1: How Dependency Injection Makes Unit Testing Easier ..................................................................... 90
Section 26.2: Dependency Injection - Simple example ........................................................................................... 90
Section 26.3: Why We Use Dependency Injection Containers (IoC Containers) .................................................. 91
Chapter 27: Platform Invoke ................................................................................................................................ 94
Section 27.1: Marshaling structs ................................................................................................................................. 94
Section 27.2: Marshaling unions ................................................................................................................................ 95
Section 27.3: Calling a Win32 dll function ................................................................................................................. 96
Section 27.4: Using Windows API ............................................................................................................................... 97
Section 27.5: Marshalling arrays ................................................................................................................................ 97
Chapter 28: NuGet packaging system ............................................................................................................. 98
Section 28.1: Uninstalling a package from one project in a solution ..................................................................... 98
Section 28.2: Installing a specific version of a package ......................................................................................... 98
Section 28.3: Adding a package source feed (MyGet, Klondike, ect) .................................................................... 98
Section 28.4: Installing the NuGet Package Manager ............................................................................................. 98
Section 28.5: Managing Packages through the UI .................................................................................................. 99
Section 28.6: Managing Packages through the console ......................................................................................... 99
Section 28.7: Updating a package ............................................................................................................................ 99
Section 28.8: Uninstalling a package ...................................................................................................................... 100
Section 28.9: Uninstall a specific version of package ........................................................................................... 100
Chapter 29: Globalization in ASP.NET MVC using Smart internationalization for ASP.NET
............................................................................................................................................................................................ 101
About ................................................................................................................................................................................... 1
Chapter 1: Getting started with .NET Framework ........................................................................................ 2
Section 1.1: Hello World in C# ........................................................................................................................................ 2
Section 1.2: Hello World in F# ....................................................................................................................................... 3
Section 1.3: Hello World in Visual Basic .NET .............................................................................................................. 3
Section 1.4: Hello World in C++/CLI .............................................................................................................................. 3
Section 1.5: Hello World in IL ......................................................................................................................................... 3
Section 1.6: Hello World in PowerShell ......................................................................................................................... 4
Section 1.7: Hello World in Nemerle ............................................................................................................................. 4
Section 1.8: Hello World in Python (IronPython) ......................................................................................................... 4
Section 1.9: Hello World in Oxygene ............................................................................................................................ 4
Section 1.10: Hello World in Boo ................................................................................................................................... 4
Chapter 2: Strings ......................................................................................................................................................... 5
Section 2.1: Count characters ....................................................................................................................................... 5
Section 2.2: Count distinct characters ......................................................................................................................... 5
Section 2.3: Convert string to/from another encoding ............................................................................................. 5
Section 2.4: Comparing strings .................................................................................................................................... 6
Section 2.5: Count occurrences of a character .......................................................................................................... 6
Section 2.6: Split string into fixed length blocks ......................................................................................................... 6
Section 2.7: Object.ToString() virtual method ............................................................................................................ 7
Section 2.8: Immutability of strings ............................................................................................................................. 8
Chapter 3: DateTime parsing ................................................................................................................................. 9
Section 3.1: ParseExact .................................................................................................................................................. 9
Section 3.2: TryParse .................................................................................................................................................. 10
Section 3.3: TryParseExact ......................................................................................................................................... 12
Chapter 4: Dictionaries ............................................................................................................................................ 13
Section 4.1: Initializing a Dictionary with a Collection Initializer .............................................................................. 13
Section 4.2: Adding to a Dictionary ........................................................................................................................... 13
Section 4.3: Getting a value from a dictionary ......................................................................................................... 13
Section 4.4: Make a Dictionary<string, T> with Case-Insensivitve keys ................................................................. 14
Section 4.5: IEnumerable to Dictionary (≥ .NET 3.5) ................................................................................................ 14
Section 4.6: Enumerating a Dictionary ...................................................................................................................... 14
Section 4.7: ConcurrentDictionary<TKey, TValue> (from .NET 4.0) ...................................................................... 15
Section 4.8: Dictionary to List ..................................................................................................................................... 16
Section 4.9: Removing from a Dictionary ................................................................................................................. 16
Section 4.10: ContainsKey(TKey) ............................................................................................................................... 17
Section 4.11: ConcurrentDictionary augmented with Lazy'1 reduces duplicated computation ........................... 17
Chapter 5: Collections .............................................................................................................................................. 19
Section 5.1: Using collection initializers ...................................................................................................................... 19
Section 5.2: Stack ........................................................................................................................................................ 19
Section 5.3: Creating an initialized List with Custom Types .................................................................................... 20
Section 5.4: Queue ....................................................................................................................................................... 22
Chapter 6: ReadOnlyCollections ......................................................................................................................... 24
Section 6.1: Creating a ReadOnlyCollection .............................................................................................................. 24
Section 6.2: Updating a ReadOnlyCollection ........................................................................................................... 24
Section 6.3: Warning: Elements in a ReadOnlyCollection are not inherently read-only ...................................... 24
,Chapter 7: Stack and Heap ................................................................................................................................... 26
Section 7.1: Value types in use ................................................................................................................................... 26
Section 7.2: Reference types in use ........................................................................................................................... 26
Chapter 8: LINQ ........................................................................................................................................................... 28
Section 8.1: SelectMany (flat map) ............................................................................................................................ 28
Section 8.2: Where (filter) ........................................................................................................................................... 29
Section 8.3: Any ........................................................................................................................................................... 29
Section 8.4: GroupJoin ................................................................................................................................................ 30
Section 8.5: Except ...................................................................................................................................................... 31
Section 8.6: Zip ............................................................................................................................................................ 31
Section 8.7: Aggregate (fold) ..................................................................................................................................... 31
Section 8.8: ToLookup ................................................................................................................................................ 32
Section 8.9: Intersect ................................................................................................................................................... 32
Section 8.10: Concat .................................................................................................................................................... 32
Section 8.11: All ............................................................................................................................................................. 32
Section 8.12: Sum ......................................................................................................................................................... 33
Section 8.13: SequenceEqual ...................................................................................................................................... 33
Section 8.14: Min ........................................................................................................................................................... 33
Section 8.15: Distinct .................................................................................................................................................... 34
Section 8.16: Count ...................................................................................................................................................... 34
Section 8.17: Cast ......................................................................................................................................................... 34
Section 8.18: Range ..................................................................................................................................................... 34
Section 8.19: ThenBy ................................................................................................................................................... 35
Section 8.20: Repeat ................................................................................................................................................... 35
Section 8.21: Empty ..................................................................................................................................................... 35
Section 8.22: Select (map) .......................................................................................................................................... 35
Section 8.23: OrderBy ................................................................................................................................................. 36
Section 8.24: OrderByDescending ............................................................................................................................. 36
Section 8.25: Contains ................................................................................................................................................. 36
Section 8.26: First (find) .............................................................................................................................................. 36
Section 8.27: Single ..................................................................................................................................................... 37
Section 8.28: Last ........................................................................................................................................................ 37
Section 8.29: LastOrDefault ....................................................................................................................................... 37
Section 8.30: SingleOrDefault .................................................................................................................................... 38
Section 8.31: FirstOrDefault ........................................................................................................................................ 38
Section 8.32: Skip ......................................................................................................................................................... 38
Section 8.33: Take ....................................................................................................................................................... 39
Section 8.34: Reverse .................................................................................................................................................. 39
Section 8.35: OfType ................................................................................................................................................... 39
Section 8.36: Max ......................................................................................................................................................... 39
Section 8.37: Average ................................................................................................................................................. 39
Section 8.38: GroupBy ................................................................................................................................................. 40
Section 8.39: ToDictionary .......................................................................................................................................... 40
Section 8.40: Union ...................................................................................................................................................... 41
Section 8.41: ToArray .................................................................................................................................................. 42
Section 8.42: ToList ..................................................................................................................................................... 42
Section 8.43: ElementAt .............................................................................................................................................. 42
Section 8.44: ElementAtOrDefault ............................................................................................................................. 42
Section 8.45: SkipWhile ............................................................................................................................................... 42
Section 8.46: TakeWhile .............................................................................................................................................. 43
, Section 8.47: DefaultIfEmpty ...................................................................................................................................... 43
Section 8.48: Join ........................................................................................................................................................ 43
Section 8.49: Left Outer Join ...................................................................................................................................... 44
Chapter 9: ForEach .................................................................................................................................................... 46
Section 9.1: Extension method for IEnumerable ....................................................................................................... 46
Section 9.2: Calling a method on an object in a list ................................................................................................. 46
Chapter 10: Reflection .............................................................................................................................................. 47
Section 10.1: What is an Assembly? ........................................................................................................................... 47
Section 10.2: Compare two objects with reflection .................................................................................................. 47
Section 10.3: Creating Object and setting properties using reflection ................................................................... 48
Section 10.4: How to create an object of T using Reflection .................................................................................. 48
Section 10.5: Getting an attribute of an enum with reflection (and caching it) .................................................... 48
Chapter 11: Expression Trees ................................................................................................................................. 50
Section 11.1: building a predicate of form field == value .......................................................................................... 50
Section 11.2: Simple Expression Tree Generated by the C# Compiler .................................................................... 50
Section 11.3: Expression for retrieving a static field .................................................................................................. 51
Section 11.4: InvocationExpression Class ................................................................................................................... 51
Chapter 12: Custom Types ...................................................................................................................................... 54
Section 12.1: Struct Definition ...................................................................................................................................... 54
Section 12.2: Class Definition ...................................................................................................................................... 54
Chapter 13: Code Contracts ................................................................................................................................... 56
Section 13.1: Contracts for Interfaces ........................................................................................................................ 56
Section 13.2: Installing and Enabling Code Contracts .............................................................................................. 56
Section 13.3: Preconditions ......................................................................................................................................... 58
Section 13.4: Postconditions ........................................................................................................................................ 59
Chapter 14: Settings .................................................................................................................................................. 60
Section 14.1: AppSettings from ConfigurationSettings in .NET 1.x ........................................................................... 60
Section 14.2: Reading AppSettings from ConfigurationManager in .NET 2.0 and later ....................................... 60
Section 14.3: Introduction to strongly-typed application and user settings support from Visual Studio
................................................................................................................................................................................ 61
Section 14.4: Reading strongly-typed settings from custom section of configuration file ................................. 62
Chapter 15: Regular Expressions (System.Text.RegularExpressions) .............................................. 65
Section 15.1: Check if pattern matches input ............................................................................................................ 65
Section 15.2: Remove non alphanumeric characters from string .......................................................................... 65
Section 15.3: Passing Options ..................................................................................................................................... 65
Section 15.4: Match into groups ................................................................................................................................. 65
Section 15.5: Find all matches .................................................................................................................................... 65
Section 15.6: Simple match and replace ................................................................................................................... 66
Chapter 16: File Input/Output ............................................................................................................................... 67
Section 16.1: C# File.Exists() ......................................................................................................................................... 67
Section 16.2: VB WriteAllText ...................................................................................................................................... 67
Section 16.3: VB StreamWriter .................................................................................................................................... 67
Section 16.4: C# StreamWriter ................................................................................................................................... 67
Section 16.5: C# WriteAllText() ................................................................................................................................... 68
Chapter 17: System.IO .............................................................................................................................................. 69
Section 17.1: Reading a text file using StreamReader .............................................................................................. 69
Section 17.2: Serial Ports using System.IO.SerialPorts ............................................................................................. 69
Section 17.3: Reading/Writing Data Using System.IO.File ....................................................................................... 70
Chapter 18: System.IO.File class .......................................................................................................................... 72
, Section 18.1: Delete a file ............................................................................................................................................. 72
Section 18.2: Strip unwanted lines from a text file ................................................................................................... 73
Section 18.3: Convert text file encoding .................................................................................................................... 73
Section 18.4: Enumerate files older than a specified amount ................................................................................. 74
Section 18.5: Move a File from one location to another .......................................................................................... 74
Chapter 19: Reading and writing Zip files ...................................................................................................... 76
Section 19.1: Listing ZIP contents ................................................................................................................................ 76
Section 19.2: Extracting files from ZIP files ............................................................................................................... 76
Section 19.3: Updating a ZIP file ................................................................................................................................. 76
Chapter 20: Managed Extensibility Framework .......................................................................................... 78
Section 20.1: Connecting (Basic) ................................................................................................................................ 78
Section 20.2: Exporting a Type (Basic) ..................................................................................................................... 78
Section 20.3: Importing (Basic) .................................................................................................................................. 79
Chapter 21: SpeechRecognitionEngine class to recognize speech .................................................... 80
Section 21.1: Asynchronously recognizing speech based on a restricted set of phrases .................................... 80
Section 21.2: Asynchronously recognizing speech for free text dictation ............................................................. 80
Chapter 22: System.Runtime.Caching.MemoryCache (ObjectCache) .............................................. 81
Section 22.1: Adding Item to Cache (Set) .................................................................................................................. 81
Section 22.2: System.Runtime.Caching.MemoryCache (ObjectCache) ................................................................. 81
Chapter 23: System.Reflection.Emit namespace ....................................................................................... 83
Section 23.1: Creating an assembly dynamically ..................................................................................................... 83
Chapter 24: .NET Core ............................................................................................................................................. 86
Section 24.1: Basic Console App ................................................................................................................................. 86
Chapter 25: ADO.NET ................................................................................................................................................ 87
Section 25.1: Best Practices - Executing Sql Statements ......................................................................................... 87
Section 25.2: Executing SQL statements as a command ....................................................................................... 88
Section 25.3: Using common interfaces to abstract away vendor specific classes ............................................ 89
Chapter 26: Dependency Injection ..................................................................................................................... 90
Section 26.1: How Dependency Injection Makes Unit Testing Easier ..................................................................... 90
Section 26.2: Dependency Injection - Simple example ........................................................................................... 90
Section 26.3: Why We Use Dependency Injection Containers (IoC Containers) .................................................. 91
Chapter 27: Platform Invoke ................................................................................................................................ 94
Section 27.1: Marshaling structs ................................................................................................................................. 94
Section 27.2: Marshaling unions ................................................................................................................................ 95
Section 27.3: Calling a Win32 dll function ................................................................................................................. 96
Section 27.4: Using Windows API ............................................................................................................................... 97
Section 27.5: Marshalling arrays ................................................................................................................................ 97
Chapter 28: NuGet packaging system ............................................................................................................. 98
Section 28.1: Uninstalling a package from one project in a solution ..................................................................... 98
Section 28.2: Installing a specific version of a package ......................................................................................... 98
Section 28.3: Adding a package source feed (MyGet, Klondike, ect) .................................................................... 98
Section 28.4: Installing the NuGet Package Manager ............................................................................................. 98
Section 28.5: Managing Packages through the UI .................................................................................................. 99
Section 28.6: Managing Packages through the console ......................................................................................... 99
Section 28.7: Updating a package ............................................................................................................................ 99
Section 28.8: Uninstalling a package ...................................................................................................................... 100
Section 28.9: Uninstall a specific version of package ........................................................................................... 100
Chapter 29: Globalization in ASP.NET MVC using Smart internationalization for ASP.NET
............................................................................................................................................................................................ 101
