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Abort( ),  741–745

Abs( ), 193, 618

abstract type modifier, 294, 301, 305

Access control, 165–172

guidelines for using public and 

private, 167–168

Access modifiers/specifiers, 110, 116, 

165–166, 261–264, 458

Accessors, 245

event, 424–429

indexer, 246, 248–249

property, 254–255, 259–260

using access modifiers with, 

261–264

Acos( ),  618

Action delegate, 653–654

add event accessor, 425, 428

Add( ), 631, 752, 753, 763, 776, 777, 

787, 790, 792, 794, 796, 852–853, 

859, 860, 864

and collection initializers, 819

AddAfter( ),  784

AddBefore( ),  784

AddFirst( ),  784

AddLast( ),  784

AddMemoryPressure( ),  658

AddRange( ),  756,  780

ADO.NET Datasets, 546

All( ) extension method, 578–579

AllKeys property, 834

AllowMultiple named parameter, 491

AND operator

bitwise (&), 73–76

logical (&), 67, 68, 70, 71, 229–235

short-circuit or conditional 

(&&), 67, 70–71, 229, 231–235

And( ),  772

Any( ) extension method, 578–579

Application class, 851

Application.EnableVisualStyles( ),  851

Application.Exit( ),  858

ApplicationException, 354

ArgumentException, 372, 378, 380, 

381, 384, 802, 805

ArgumentNullException, 372, 378, 

380, 381, 384, 397, 753, 777, 830

ArgumentOutOfRangeException, 

372, 758

Arguments, 21, 116, 122

command-line, 200–202

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passing, 174–176

type.

See

 Type argument(s)

variable number of, using, 

182–185

Arithmetic operators, 24, 63–67

Array class, 641–654, 762

methods, table of, 642–647

properties, table of, 641–642

Array.ForEach( ). 

See

 ForEach( )

Array(s), 137–152

array of, 144, 146

boundaries, 141, 338

boundary errors, using indexer 

to prevent runtime exceptions 

caused by, 246–249, 252–254

boundary errors, using a 

property to prevent runtime 

exceptions caused by, 256–259, 

262–264

copying an, 651–652

custom, using indexers and 

properties to create, 264–268

dynamic, 268, 755, 779

and fixed-size buffers, 596–598

foreach to cycle through, using, 

153–156

general forms of, 137–138, 

141, 142

and the IEnumerable 

interface, 546, 547, 550, 566, 576

implemented in C# as objects, 

137–138, 148

implicitly typed, 151–152

indexing (accessing elements of), 

138–139, 142, 145

initializing, 140, 143–144

I/O using, 392–394

jagged, 144–146, 150–151, 152

Length property of, 148–151

and LINQ, 151, 152, 546

multidimensional, 141–146

null-terminated, 593

one-dimensional, 137–141

parameter params, 182–185

of pointers, 595

pointers and, 591–593

rectangular, 144

reference variables, assigning, 

146–147

returned from methods, 187–188

reversing an, 650–651

sorting, 648–650

searching, 155–156, 648–650

of strings, 160–161

ArrayList class, 749, 755–762, 774, 779

methods, table of, 756–758

ArrayTypeMismatchException, 353

Arrow operator (–>), 589

as operator, 459, 460–462

ascending contextual keyword, 

550, 553

ASCII character set, 41, 363

ASCIIEncoding, 664

Asin( ),  618

ASP.NET, 457, 821

AsQueryable( ) extension method, 752

AsReadOnly( ),  642

Assembly, 166, 457–458

alias, 610–611

and DLL files, 480–481

friend, 605

and reflection, 475–481

Assembly class, 476

Assembly property, 464

Assignment operator(s)

=, 24, 71–72

arithmetic and logical 

compound (

op

=), 72

bitwise compound, 81

and operator overloading, 

239–240

Assignments

reference variables and, 115–116, 

146–147, 328, 329–330

structure, 328–329

type conversion in, 55–58

Atan( ),  618

Atan2( ),  618

Attribute class, 483, 484, 485

Attributes, 459, 464, 483–493

attaching, 484–485

built-in, 491–493

creating, 484

and named parameters, 487–490

retrieving, 485–486

Attributes property, 464

AttributeTargets enumeration, 491

AttributeUsage attribute, 484, 491

AuthenticationLevel property, 825

AutoResetEvent class, 737, 739

Average( ) extension method, 578–579