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Core C# Programming Constructs,

Part II

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his chapter picks up where the previous chapter left off, and completes your investigation of the

core aspects of the C# programming language. We begin by examining various details regarding the

construction of C# methods, exploring the out, ref, and params keywords along the way. Once you

examine the topic of method overloading, the next task is to investigate the details behind manipu-

lating array types using the syntax of C# and get to know the functionality contained within the

related System.Array class type.

In addition, this chapter provides a discussion regarding the construction of enumeration and

structure types, including a fairly detailed examination of the distinction between a value type and

a

reference type. We wrap this up by examining the role of nullable data types and the ? and ??

operators.