Set Operators 9. Concat and Union 9. Intersect and Except 9. Conversion Methods 9. OfType and Cast 9. AsEnumerable and AsQueryable 9. Element Operators 9. First, Last, and Single 9. ElementAt 9. DefaultIfEmpty 9. Aggregation Methods 9. Count and LongCount 9. Min and Max 9. Sum and Average 9. Aggregate 9. Contains and Any 9. All and SequenceEqual 9. Generation Methods 9. Empty 9. Range and Repeat Architectural Overview What Is a DOM?

X-DOM Overview Loading and Parsing Saving and Serializing Instantiating an X-DOM Functional Construction Specifying Content Automatic Deep Cloning Navigating and Querying Child Node Navigation FirstNode, LastNode, and Nodes Retrieving elements Retrieving a single element Recursive functions Parent Navigation Peer Node Navigation Attribute Navigation Updating an X-DOM Simple Value Updates Updating Child Nodes and Attributes Updating Through the Parent Removing a sequence of nodes or attributes Working with Values Setting Values Getting Values Values and Mixed Content Nodes Automatic XText Concatenation Documents and Declarations XDocument XML Declarations Writing a declaration to a string Names and Namespaces Namespaces in XML Prefixes Attributes Annotations Projecting into an X-DOM Eliminating Empty Elements Streaming a Projection Transforming an X-DOM Advanced transformations Other XML Technologies XmlReader Reading Nodes Reading Elements Optional elements Random element order Empty elements Other ReadXXX methods Reading Attributes Attribute nodes Namespaces and Prefixes XmlWriter Writing Attributes Writing Other Node Types Working with Hierarchical Data Using XmlReader with XElement Using XmlWriter with XElement XmlDocument Loading and Saving an XmlDocument Traversing an XmlDocument InnerText and InnerXml Creating and Manipulating Nodes Namespaces XPath Common XPath Operators XPathNavigator Querying with Namespaces XPathDocument XSD and Schema Validation Performing Schema Validation Validating with an XmlReader XSLT Disposal and Garbage Collection IDisposable, Dispose, and Close Standard Disposal Semantics Close and Stop When to Dispose Opt-in Disposal Garbage Collection and Finalizers Calling Dispose from a Finalizer How the Garbage Collector Works Optimization Techniques Forcing Garbage Collection Alternatives to Garbage Collection Stream Architecture Using Streams Reading and Writing Seeking Closing and Flushing Timeouts Thread Safety Backing Store Streams FileStream Constructing a FileStream Specifying a filename Specifying a FileMode Advanced FileStream features MemoryStream PipeStream Named pipes Anonymous pipes BufferedStream Stream Adapters Text Adapters StreamReader and StreamWriter Character encodings StringReader and StringWriter Binary Adapters Closing and Disposing Stream Adapters File and Directory Operations The File Class Compression and encryption attributes File security The Directory Class FileInfo and DirectoryInfo Path Special Folders Querying Volume Information Catching Filesystem Events Compression Compressing in Memory Isolated Storage Isolation Types Reading and Writing Isolated Storage Store Location Enumerating Isolated Storage Networking Network Architecture Addresses and Ports URIs WebClient WebRequest and WebResponse Proxies Authentication CredentialCache Concurrency Exception Handling Headers Query Strings Uploading Form Data Cookies Forms Authentication SSL Using FTP Using DNS Sending Mail with SmtpClient Using TCP Serialization Serialization Concepts Serialization Engines Why three engines?

The data contract serializer The binary serializer XmlSerializer IXmlSerializable Formatters Explicit Versus Implicit Serialization The Data Contract Serializer Using the Serializers Specifying a binary formatter Serializing Subclasses Object References Preserving object references Version Tolerance Required members Member Ordering Null and Empty Values Data Contracts and Collections Subclassed Collection Elements Customizing Collection and Element Names Extending Data Contracts Serialization and Deserialization Hooks Interoperating with [Serializable] Interoperating with IXmlSerializable The Binary Serializer Getting Started Binary Serialization Attributes Binary Serialization with ISerializable Subclassing Serializable Classes XML Serialization Getting Started with Attribute-Based Serialization Attributes, names, and namespaces XML element order Subclasses and Child Objects Subclassing the root type Serializing child objects Subclassing child objects Serializing Collections Working with subclassed collection elements Assemblies The Assembly Manifest Specifying assembly attributes The Application Manifest Deploying an application manifest Modules The Assembly Class Signing an Assembly How to Sign an Assembly Delay Signing Assembly Names Fully Qualified Names The AssemblyName Class The Global Assembly Cache GAC and Versioning Resources and Satellite Assemblies Directly Embedding Resources Creating a.

Satellite Assemblies Building satellite assemblies Testing satellite assemblies Visual Studio designer support Cultures and Subcultures Resolving and Loading Assemblies Assembly and Type Resolution Rules AssemblyResolve Loading Assemblies Loading from a filename Deploying Assemblies Outside the Base Folder Packing a Single-File Executable Selective Patching Working with Unreferenced Assemblies Reflection and Metadata Reflecting and Activating Types Obtaining a Type Obtaining array types Obtaining nested types Type Names Nested type names Generic type names Array and pointer type names Base Types and Interfaces Instantiating Types Generic Types Reflecting and Invoking Members Member Types Generic Type Members Dynamically Invoking a Member Method Parameters Using Delegates for Performance Accessing Nonpublic Members The BindingFlags enum Generic Methods Anonymously Calling Members of a Generic Type Reflecting Assemblies Loading an Assembly into a Reflection-Only Context Working with Attributes Attribute Basics The AttributeUsage Attribute Defining Your Own Attribute Retrieving Attributes at Runtime Retrieving Attributes in the Reflection-Only Context Dynamic Code Generation Generating IL with DynamicMethod The Evaluation Stack Passing Arguments to a Dynamic Method Generating Local Variables Branching Instantiating Objects and Calling Instance Methods Emitting Assemblies and Types Saving Emitted Assemblies The Reflection.

Emit Object Model Emitting Type Members Emitting Methods Generating instance methods HideBySig Emitting Fields and Properties Emitting Constructors Calling base constructors Attaching Attributes Emitting Generic Methods and Types Defining Generic Methods Defining Generic Types Awkward Emission Targets Uncreated Closed Generics Circular Dependencies Parsing IL Writing a Disassembler Security Permissions CodeAccessPermission and PrincipalPermission IPermission PermissionSet Declarative Versus Imperative Security Code Access Security Running in a Sandbox Optional Permissions RequestOptional Sandboxing Another Assembly Link Demands and Partially Trusted Callers Making Assertions Operating System Security Running in a Standard User Account Administrative Elevation and Virtualization Identity and Role Security Assigning Users and Roles Cryptography Overview Windows Data Protection Hashing Symmetric Encryption Encrypting in Memory Chaining Encryption Streams Disposing Encryption Objects Key Management Public Key Encryption and Signing The RSA Class Digital Signing Threading Passing Data to a Thread Sharing Data Between Threads Thread Pooling Bruce says, "This is a beta version of the book.

Some of it is in a very early form. You can probably get a pretty good idea which parts are rough, and which ones are supposed to be polished. Eckel's also the best technical writer I've read since Jeff Duntemann. Very clear and easy to read. Don't be put off by the apparent large size of his books.

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For Christ's sake if I can understand the use of constructors and destructors without and example why the hell would I need to know what division is.

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NET 3. Books that are based on betas tend to suffer from inaccuracies when compared to the final release of a product. In other words, I was being pretty pedantic when finding mistakes. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account.

Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Scope Nutshell covers: C 1. Accuracy and Depth The main problem I had with Head First C was the inaccuracies which, I have to stress, are hopefully going to be fixed to a large extent in a future printing.

Competitive Analysis So, why would you buy one book and not the other? Or should you buy both? Well… Nutshell covers C 1 as well as 2 and 3. The 3.