C# 0 The Complete Reference

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D

Data members, class, 109

Data type(s), 24, 25

casting.

See

 Casts

class as a, 111

conversion.

See

 Type conversion

importance of, 35

object as a “universal”, 309–310

promotion of, 59–60

reference. 

See

Reference types

value (simple). 

See

 Value types

See also

 Type

Date and time, formatting, 695–700

custom placeholder characters 

for, table of, 699–700

format specifiers for, table of, 696

DateTime structure, 660, 695

Deadlock, 727, 745

Decimal .NET structure, 396, 397, 

623, 630–634

constructors, 630

fields, table of, 635

methods, table of, 631–634

decimal value type, 36, 40–41, 396, 

623, 630

literal, 46

DeclaringType property, 463

Decrement operator (– –), 29, 63, 64–65

overloading, 217

Decrement( ),  739–740

default #line directive option, 456

default statement, 89–91

and goto, 106–107

default(

type

) and type parameters, 

522–523

DefaultCachePolicy property, 825

DefaultWebProxy property, 826

#define directive, 451, 452, 491

delegate keyword, 399, 409, 410

Delegates, 399–413

and anonymous functions, 

408–409

and anonymous methods, 

408–413

covariance and contravariance 

and, 406–408

declaring, 399–400

and events, 419, 420

generic, 527–530

and instance methods, 402–404

and lambda expressions, 413–419

and multicasting, 404–406

reasons to use, 408

System, list of, 617

Delegates, instantiating, 401

using method group conversion, 

402, 403

Dequeue( ), 769, 770, 796, 797

descending contextual keyword, 

550, 553

Destructors, 131–133

DialogResult enumeration, 856–857

Dictionaries, 749, 754, 787

Dictionary class, 775, 779, 

787–789

methods, table of some, 787

Dictionary.KeyCollection

class, 788

Dictionary.ValueCollection 

class, 788

DictionaryBase class, 774

DictionaryEntry structure, 755, 763, 

765, 810

DirectoryNotFoundException, 372, 

373, 381

disable warning option, 457

Dispose( ),  374,  778

and the using statement, 608

Divide( ),  631

DivideByZeroException, 337, 342, 

343, 347–348, 353

DivRem( ),  618

DllImport attribute, 609, 610

Documentation comments, 867–870

do-while loop, 85, 101–102, 105

Dot operator (.), 111, 119, 205, 332, 589

Double .NET structure, 396, 397, 

623, 626

fields, table of, 630

methods, table of, 628–629

double value type, 25–26, 36, 38–39, 

46, 396, 623

DoubleToInt64Bits( ),  655

DownloadData( ),  844

DownloadFile( ),  844

DownloadString( ),  844

DropDownItems property, 864

Dynamic method dispatch, 294

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