Solutions to the exercises in the book

(H.Mössenböck: C# to the Point, Addison Wesley, 2005)

1. Suitability of C# for large-scale software projects
2. Features of .NET
3. Security
4. Interoperability
5. Assemblies
6. Internet resources
7. Mono

1. Compiling and executing a program
2. Working with a development environment
3. Online documentation
4. Multi-file programs
5. Symbols

1. Type system
2. Primitive types
3. Enumerations
4. Enumerations
5. Arrays
6. Arrays
7. Arrays
8. Strings
9. StringBuilder
10. Classes
11. Structs
12. Classes versus Structs

1. Priority of operators
2. Result type of expressions
3. Short-circuit evaluation
4. Simplifying Boolean expressions
5. Run-time type information

1. Namespaces
2. Namespaces
3. Declarations using the same name
4. Declaration rules
5. Visibility of names
6. Inner statement blocks

1. if statement
2. switch statement
3. switch statement
4. Loop transformations
5. Search loop

1. Removing comments
2. Formatted output
3. Formatted output
4. Formatted input

1. Structs
2. Classes
3. Static variables and methods
4. Structs and properties
5. Parameter passing modes
6. Variable number of parameters
7. Cross-reference list

1. Access modifiers
2. Compatibility between classes
3. Inheritance and constructors
4. Type cast
5. Hiding methods
6. Subclasses
7. Object-oriented design
8. Dynamic binding
9. Abstract classes
10. Methods of Object

1. Abstract classes and interfaces
2. Multiple interface inheritance
3. IComparable interface
4. IDumpable interface
5. foreach and interfaces

1. Sorting arrays
2. Trigger
3. Trapping events in the file system
4. Delegates with state

1. Using exception handling
2. Conversion errors
3. Exceptions when opening a file
4. User-defined exception classes
5. Hierarchy of exception classes
6. finally

1. Types with the same name from different namespaces
2. Namespaces, assemblies, DLLs
3. Version checking
4. Security
5. Strong names
6. Global assembly cache
7. Decoding assemblies

1. Input/output threads
2. File comparison
3. Thread synchronization
4. Dining philosophers
5. Comparing C# and Java

1. Conditional atribute
2. Serializing
3. ISerializable
4. User-defined attributes

1. Commenting a class
2. Formatting comments

1. Microsoft Agent
2. Calling a .NET program from COM

1. Calculating dates
2. Trigonometry
3. Minimum distance between points
4. Normal distribution
5. Sorted directory
6. Number sequences
7. Outputting Windows system variables
8. Phone book
9. Counting the frequency of words
10. Character statistics
11. Iteration through binary trees
12. Memory streams
13. Binary files
14. Properties of a class
15. Scripting environment

1. Calculator
2. Web service for a book shop
3. Web interface using ASP.NET