C# 0 The Complete Reference

N

N

Name hiding

and code blocks, 54

and inheritance, 282–285, 323

Name property, 463, 465, 707, 

836–837

namespace keyword, 438

Namespace property, 464

Namespace(s), 20, 22–23, 437–451

additive characteristic of, 444–446

alias qualifier (::), 447–451

declaring, 438

default global, 437, 447, 450

nested, 446–447

qualification, 22–23, 438, 446, 447

NameValueCollection class, 774

NaN field, 628, 630

Narrowing conversion, 56–58

Naughton, Patrick, 4

Negate( ),  632

Negative numbers, representation of, 

37, 81

NegativeInfinity field, 628, 630

.NET Framework, 3, 6, 7–8

assemblies, 457–458

class library, 8, 20, 34, 38, 437, 

613, 615

event guidelines, 430–433

I/O system, 363, 364, 365, 371

standard interfaces, 326

structures for the built-in 

numeric types, 396–397, 

623–641

Windows Forms subsystem, 847, 

848, 850

.NET Reflection API, 463, 465, 476

Networking, Internet, 821–845

and handling errors, 830–833

simple example program for, 

828–830

web crawler program for, 

839–842

new, 114–115, 128, 130–131, 137, 138, 

140, 141, 327, 328, 348

to hide base class member, 

282–283, 285

to hide interface member, 323

and implicitly typed arrays, 

151, 152

new{ } to create an anonymous 

type, 569

new( ), 504, 516–517, 521

Next property, 783, 787

Next( ),  657

NextBytes( ),  657

NextDouble( ),  657

NOT operator

bitwise unary (~), 73, 78–79

logical unary (!), 67, 68, 69–70, 

229–231

Not( ),  772

NotSupportedException, 364, 372, 

374, 375, 390, 752, 776, 825, 830

Null

coalescing operator (??), 601–602

reference, 353

null value, 353, 518, 522, 598, 599, 

601, 602, 603

Nullable type, 36, 518, 519, 598–603

Nullable class, 598–599

NullReferenceException, 353–354

NumberStyles enumeration, 623

Nybble, 240