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The PreprocessorDirectives project can be found under the Chapter 12 subdirectory.

Summary

The purpose of this chapter is to deepen your understanding of the C# programming language. You

began by investigating various advanced type construction techniques (indexer methods, over-

loaded operators, and custom conversion routines). You spent the remainder of this chapter

examining a small set of lesser-known keywords (e.g., sizeof, checked, unsafe, and so forth), and

during the process came to learn how to work with raw pointer types. As stated throughout the

chapter’s examination of pointer types, a vast majority of your C# applications will never need to

make use of them.

We wrapped up with an examination of the core C# preprocessor directives, which allow you to

interact with the compiler (or in the case of #region/#endregion, Visual Studio 2008) regarding the

compilation of your code files.

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