C# 0 The Complete Reference

Stack

,

Stack

,

Queue

,

or

Queue

 collections because they don’t support 

Add( )

. You also can’t use a collection 

initializer with a collection such as 

LinkedList

, which provides 

Add( )

 as an explicit 

interface implementation.

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Networking Through the 

Internet Using System.Net

C

# is a language designed for the modern computing environment, of which the 

Internet is, obviously, an important part. A main design criteria for C# was, 

therefore, to include those features necessary for accessing the Internet. Although 

earlier languages, such as C and C++, could be used to access the Internet, support server-

side operations, download files, and obtain resources, the process was not as streamlined as 

most programmers would like. C# remedies that situation. Using standard features of C# 

and the .NET Framework, it is easy to “Internet-enable” your applications and write other 

types of Internet-based code.

Networking support is contained in several namespaces defined by the .NET Framework. 

The primary namespace for networking is 

System.Net

. It defines a large number of high-

level, easy-to-use classes that support the various types of operations common to the Internet. 

Several namespaces nested under