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Fundamentals in .NET 2.0 - Part 5: Boxing and Unboxing

Boxing and Unboxing refers to the conversion of value types to reference type and reference types to value types respectively. This means that all value types such as int, float, bool etc can be treated as objects. They are after all inherited from System.Object Read More...
Posted Sunday, June 17, 2007 4:41 AM by jonathanparker | 0 Comments
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Fundamentals in .NET 2.0 - Part 4: Exceptions

System.Exception is the class that defines exceptions in the .NET framework. It should be inherited from when defining custom exception classes. To throw an exception simply use the throw keyword. For example: throw new Exception( "Message: An error occured." Read More...
Posted Sunday, June 17, 2007 4:09 AM by jonathanparker | 0 Comments
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Fundamentals in .NET 2.0 - Part 3: An Introduction to Generics

Generics are arguably the greatest addition to the 2.0 release of the .NET framework. They are one of the few technologies that give both a higher degree of de-coupling and abstraction as well as higher performance and higher quality code. The performance Read More...
Posted Sunday, June 17, 2007 1:31 AM by jonathanparker | 0 Comments
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Fundamentals in .NET 2.0 - Part 2: Reference Types and Attributes

Reference Types: Reference types are types such as class , interface , delegate . The .NET Framework also provides two built-in reference types ( object and string ). Reference types are passed by reference when used in method parameters. Attributes: Read More...
Posted Friday, June 15, 2007 1:42 AM by jonathanparker | 0 Comments
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Fundamentals in .NET 2.0 - Part 1: Value Types and Nullable Types

This is the first in a series of posts on fundamentals in .NET 2.0 that I will be writing over the next few days. The main reason that I am doing this is as part of my preparation for my 70-536 exam next week. I also think there are quite a few fundamentals Read More...
Posted Friday, June 15, 2007 1:11 AM by jonathanparker | 0 Comments
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