C# 0 The Complete Reference

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E

E field, 617

#elif directive, 451, 452, 454–455

else, 85–88

#else directive, 451, 454–455

Empty field, 430, 665

Encapsulation, 12, 20, 52, 165

Encoding class, 664

Encoding property, 843

#endif directive, 451, 452–453, 454

EndOfStream property, 381

EndOfStreamException, 390

#endregion directive, 451, 456

EndsWith( ), 552, 673, 675

Enqueue( ), 769, 770, 796, 797

Enter( ),  723

Entry property, 809–810

enum keyword, 332, 519

Enumerable class, 574, 577, 580, 

684, 776

Enumerations, 36, 311, 332–335

formatting, 700–701

System, list of, 617

Enumerators, 749, 750, 808–811

Epsilon field, 628, 630

EqualityComparer property, 763

equals, 566, 568

Equals( ),  226, 306, 624, 626, 628, 

631–632, 635, 640, 644, 659, 660, 

754–755, 778

#error directive, 451, 456

Errors

network, handling, 830–833

runtime, 337, 501

syntax, 22

See also 

Exception handling

Escape sequences, character, 47

event statement, 419, 420, 424–425, 428

Event handlers, 419, 420–421

anonymous methods as, 429, 430

and event accessors, 424–429

and form-based Windows 

programs, 853–856

instance methods as, 422–423

lambda expressions as, 429–430, 

433–435

.NET guidelines for 430–433

static methods as, 422, 423–424

Event synchronization object, using 

an, 737–739

EventArgs class, 430, 432, 433, 854

EventHandler delegate, 432–433, 854

Events, 399, 419–435

and generics, 544

multicasting, 421–422

EventWaitHandle class, 737

Exception class, 337, 347, 351–355, 

358, 359

Exception handling, 337–362

blocks, general form of, 338, 349

and creating derived exception 

classes, 348, 354–358

inner, 352

network, 830–833

and uncaught exceptions, 

341–343

See also

 catch statement(s)

See also 

try block(s)

Exceptions, standard built-in, 337, 

352–354

table of common, 353

ExceptionState property, 742, 743

ExceptWith( ),  798

exe file, 457, 480–481

Exists( ),  644,  652–653

Exit( ),  723

Exp( ),  618

explicit keyword, 235

Expression class, 581

Expression(s)

nullable types in, 600–601

spacing and parentheses in, 

using, 83

trees, 581–582

type conversion in, 59–62, 

600–601

Extension methods, 7, 211, 564, 

582–584

and collections, 776

corresponding to query 

keywords, 574–577

definition of, 574

general form of, 583

the inheritance mechanism vs., 

582–583

query-related, 577–581

and String objects, 684

extern

used with methods, 544, 609–610

used to provide an assembly 

alias, 451, 610–611