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Free Programming Books All trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners 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# ....................................................................................................................................... 2 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 ......................................................................................................................... 3 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: Collections ................................................................................................................................................. 4 Section 2.1: Using collection initializers ........................................................................................................................ 4 Section 2.2: Stack .......................................................................................................................................................... 5 Section 2.3: Creating an initialized List with Custom Types ...................................................................................... 6 Section 2.4: Queue ......................................................................................................................................................... 7 Chapter 3: XmlSerializer ............................................................................................................................................ 8 Section 3.1: Formatting: Custom DateTime format .................................................................................................... 8 Section 3.2: Serialize object .......................................................................................................................................... 9 Section 3.3: Deserialize object ...................................................................................................................................... 9 Section 3.4: Behaviour: Map array name to property (XmlArray) ........................................................................... 9 Section 3.5: Behaviour: Map Element name to Property ........................................................................................... 9 Section 3.6: Eciently building multiple serializers with derived types specified dynamically ............................. 9 Chapter 4: HTTP clients .......................................................................................................................................... 12 Section 4.1: Reading GET response as string using System.Net.HttpClient ........................................................... 12 Section 4.2: Basic HTTP downloader using System.Net.Http.HttpClient ................................................................ 12 Section 4.3: Reading GET response as string using System.Net.HttpWebRequest .............................................. 13 Section 4.4: Reading GET response as string using System.Net.WebClient ......................................................... 13 Section 4.5: Sending a POST request with a string payload using System.Net.HttpWebRequest ..................... 14 Section 4.6: Sending a POST request with a string payload using System.Net.WebClient ................................. 14 Section 4.7: Sending a POST request with a string payload using System.Net.HttpClient .................................. 14 Chapter 5: Exceptions ............................................................................................................................................... 15 Section 5.1: Catching and rethrowing caught exceptions ....................................................................................... 15 Section 5.2: Using a finally block ............................................................................................................................... 16 Section 5.3: Exception Filters ...................................................................................................................................... 16 Section 5.4: Rethrowing an exception within a catch block .................................................................................... 16 Section 5.5: Throwing an exception from a dierent method while preserving its information ........................ 17 Section 5.6: Catching an exception ........................................................................................................................... 17 Chapter 6: LINQ ........................................................................................................................................................... 18 Section 6.1: SelectMany (flat map) ............................................................................................................................ 24 Section 6.2: Where (filter) ........................................................................................................................................... 25 Section 6.3: Any ........................................................................................................................................................... 25 Section 6.4: GroupJoin ................................................................................................................................................ 25 Section 6.5: Except ...................................................................................................................................................... 26 Section 6.6: Zip ............................................................................................................................................................. 27 Section 6.7: Aggregate (fold) ..................................................................................................................................... 27 Section 6.8: ToLookup ................................................................................................................................................. 27 Section 6.9: Intersect ................................................................................................................................................... 28 Section 6.10: Concat .................................................................................................................................................... 28 Section 6.11: All ............................................................................................................................................................. 28 Section 6.12: Sum ......................................................................................................................................................... 28 Section 6.13: SequenceEqual ...................................................................................................................................... 29 Section 6.14: Min ........................................................................................................................................................... 29 Section 6.15: Distinct .................................................................................................................................................... 29 Section 6.16: Count ...................................................................................................................................................... 29 Section 6.17: Cast ......................................................................................................................................................... 29 Section 6.18: Range ....................................................................................................................................................