Essential .NET framework

Getting started
- Getting started with .NET Framework
- Hello World in C#
- Hello World in F#
- Hello World in Visual Basic .NET
- Hello World in C# CLI
- Hello World in IL
- Hello World in PowerShell
- Hello World in Nemerle
- Hello World in Oxygene
- Hello World in Boo
- Hello World in Python IronPython
Collections
- Using collection initializers
- Creating an initialized List with Custom Types
- Queue
- Stack
XmlSerializer
- XmlSerializer
- Formatting Custom DateTime format
- Serialize object
- Deserialize object
- Behaviour Map array name to property XmlArray
- Behaviour Map Element name to Property
- Efficiently building multiple serializers with derived types specified dynamically
HTTP clients
- HTTP clients
- Reading GET response as string using System.Net.HttpClient
- Basic HTTP downloader using System.Net.Http.HttpClient
- Reading GET response as string using System.Net.WebClient
- Sending a POST request with a string payload using System.Net.HttpWebRequest
- Sending a POST request with a string payload using System.Net.WebClient
- Sending a POST request with a string payload using System.Net.HttpClient
- Reading GET response as string using System.Net.HttpWebRequest
Exceptions
- Exceptions
- Catching and rethrowing caught exceptions
- Using a finally block
- Exception Filters
- Rethrowing an exception within a catch block
- Throwing an exception from a different method while preserving its information
- Catching an exception
LINQ
- LINQ
- SelectMany flat map
- Where filter
- Any
- GroupJoin
- ToLookup
- Except
- Zip
- Aggregate fold
- Concat
- Count
- Distinct
- Intersect
- SequenceEqual
- Min
- Cast
- All
- Sum
- Select map
- FirstOrDefault
- Take
- SingleOrDefault
- Reverse
- OfType
- Max
- Skip
- Average
- LastOrDefault
- Last
- GroupBy
- ToDictionary
- Union
- ToArray
- ToList
- Single
- ElementAt
- ElementAtOrDefault
- SkipWhile
- TakeWhile
- DefaultIfEmpty
- First find
- Contains
- Join
- OrderByDescending
- OrderBy
- Empty
- ThenBy
- Range
- Left Outer Join
- Repeat
Networking
- Networking
- Basic TCP chat TcpListener TcpClient NetworkStream
- Basic SNTP client UdpClient
NuGet packaging system
- NuGet packaging system
- Installing a specific version of a package
- Uninstalling a package from one project in a solution
- Adding a package source feed MyGet Klondike ect
- Installing the NuGet Package Manager
- Managing Packages through the console
- Updating a package
- Uninstalling a package
- Managing Packages through the UI
- uninstall a specific version of package
Reflection
- Reflection
- What is an Assembly
- Compare two objects with reflection
- How to create an object of T using Reflection
- Creating Object and setting properties using reflection
- Getting an attribute of an enum with reflection and caching it
Dictionaries
- Initializing a Dictionary with a Collection Initializer
- Adding to a Dictionary
- Getting a value from a dictionary
- Make a Dictionarystring T with Case-Insensivitve keys.
- Enumerating a Dictionary
- ConcurrentDictionaryTKeyTValue from .NET 4.0
- IEnumerable to Dictionary .NET 3.5
- Removing from a Dictionary
- ContainsKeyTKey
- Dictionary to List
- ConcurrentDictionary augmented with Lazy1 reduces duplicated computation
HTTP Servers
- HTTP servers
- Basic read-only HTTP file server HttpListener
- Basic read-only HTTP file server ASP.NET Core
Settings
- Settings
- AppSettings from ConfigurationSettings in .NET 1.x
- Reading AppSettings from ConfigurationManager in .NET 2.0 and later
- Introduction to strongly-typed application and user settings support from Visual Studio
- Reading strongly-typed settings from custom section of configuration file
Task Parallel Library (TPL)
- Task Parallel Library TPL
- Basic producer-consumer loop BlockingCollection
- Parallel.Invoke
- Task basic instantiation and Wait
- Parallel.For
- Parallel.ForEach
- Task.WhenAll
- Task Returning a value
- Task cancelling using CancellationToken
- Task handling exceptions without using Wait
- Task handling exceptions using Wait
- Task WaitAny
- Task WaitAll and variable capturing
- Flowing execution context with AsyncLocal
- Parallel.ForEach in VB.NET
- Task.WhenAny
Custom types
- Custom Types
- Struct Definition
- Class Definition
- Enum Definition
DateTime parsing
- DateTime parsing
- ParseExact
- TryParse
- TryParseExact
Memory management
- Memory management
- Use SafeHandle when wrapping unmanaged resources
- Unmanaged Resources
Managed Extensibility Framework
- Managed Extensibility Framework
- Connecting Basic
- Exporting a Type Basic
- Importing Basic
Speech Recognition Engine
- SpeechRecognitionEngine class to recognize speech
- Asynchronously recognizing speech based on a restricted set of phrases
- Asynchronously recognizing speech for free text dictation
System.Reflection.Emit
- System.Reflection.Emit namespace
- Creating an assembly dynamically
System.Runtime.Caching.MemoryCache
- System.Runtime.Caching.MemoryCache ObjectCache
- Adding Item to Cache Set
- System.Runtime.Caching.MemoryCache ObjectCache
JSON Serialization
- JSON Serialization
- Deserialization using System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer
- Deserialization using Json.NET
- Serialization using Json.NET
- Serialization-Deserialization using Newtonsoft.Json
- Dynamic binding
- Serialization using Json.NET with JsonSerializerSettings
TPL Dataflow
- TPL Dataflow
- Asynchronous Producer Consumer With A Bounded BufferBlock
- Posting to an ActionBlock and waiting for completion
- Linking blocks to create a pipeline
- Synchronous ProducerConsumer with BufferBlockT
File Input/Output
- File InputOutput
- C File.Exists
- VB WriteAllText
- VB StreamWriter
- C StreamWriter
- C WriteAllText
Platform invoke
- Platform Invoke
- Calling a Win32 dll function
- Using Windows API
- Marshalling arrays
- Marshaling structs
- Marshaling unions
Code contracts
- Code Contracts
- Contracts for Interfaces
- Preconditions
- Postconditions
- Installing and Enabling Code Contracts
VB Forms
- VB Forms
- Hello World in VB.NET Forms
- For Beginners
- Forms Timer
ForEach
- ForEach
- Extension method for IEnumerable
- Calling a method on an object in a list
Strings
- Strings
- Count characters
- Count distinct characters
- Convert string tofrom another encoding
- omparing strings
- Count occurrences of a character
- Split string into fixed length blocks
- Object.ToString virtual method
- Immutability of strings
Expression Trees
- Expression Trees
- Simple Expression Tree Generated by the C Compiler
- building a predicate of form field value
- Expression for retrieving a static field
- InvocationExpression Class
Threading
- Threading
- Accessing form controls from other threads
System.Diagnostics
- System.Diagnostics
- Stopwatch
- Send Command to CMD and Receive Output
- Run shell commands
ADO.NET
- ADO.NET
- Best Practices - Executing Sql Statements
- Executing SQL statements as a command
- Using common interfaces to abstract away vendor specific classes
CLR
- CLR
- An introduction to Common Language Runtime
Process and Thread affinity setting
- Process and Thread affinity setting
- Get process affinity mask
- Set process affinity mask
Dependency Injection
- Dependency Injection
- How Dependency Injection Makes Unit Testing Easier
- Dependency Injection - Simple example
- Why We Use Dependency Injection Containers IoC Containers
Task Parallel Library (TPL)
- Task Parallel Library TPL API Overviews
- Perform work in response to a button click and update the UI
System.IO
- System.IO
- Reading a text file using StreamReader
- Serial Ports using System.IO.SerialPorts
- ReadingWriting Data Using System.IO.File
Unit Testing
- Unit testing
- Adding MSTest unit testing project to an existing solution
- Creating a sample test method
Serial Ports
- Serial Ports
- Basic operation
- List available port names
- Asynchronous read
- Synchronous text echo service
- Asynchronous message receiver
System.IO.File
- System.IO.File class
- Delete a file
- Strip unwanted lines from a text file
- Convert text file encoding
- Enumerate files older than a specified amount
- Move a File from one location to another
- Touch a large amount of files to update last write time
Synchronization contexts
- Synchronization Contexts
- Execute code on the UI thread after performing background work
Using Progress<T> and IProgress<T>
- Using ProgressT and IProgressT
- Simple Progress reporting
- Using IProgressT
ReadOnlyCollections
- ReadOnlyCollections
- Creating a ReadOnlyCollection
- Updating a ReadOnlyCollection
- Warning Elements in a ReadOnlyCollection are not inherently read-only
Regular expressions
- Regular Expressions System.Text.RegularExpressions
- Check if pattern matches input
- Passing Options
- Match into groups
- Remove non alphanumeric characters from string
- Simple match and replace
- Find all matches
System.Net.Mail
- System.Net.Mail
- MailMessage
- Mail with Attachment
Encryption, cryptography
- Encryption Cryptography
- Encrypt and decrypt data using AES in C
- Create a Key from a Password Random SALT in C
- RijndaelManaged
- Encryption and Decryption using Cryptography AES
Parallel process
- Parallel processing using .Net framework
- Parallel Extensions
JSON with Newtonsoft.Json
- JSON in .NET with Newtonsoft.Json
- Deserialize an object from JSON text
- Serialize object into JSON
.NET Cor
- .NET Core
- Basic Console App
JIT compiler
- JIT compiler
- IL compilation sample
Stack and heap
- Stack and Heap
- Value types in use
- Reference types in use
SHA1
- Work with SHA1 in C
- Generate SHA1 checksum of a file function
SHA1
- Work with SHA1 in C
- Generate SHA1 checksum of a file
- Generate hash of a text
Garbage Collection
- Garbage Collection
- A basic example of garbage collection
- Live objects and dead objects - the basics
- Multiple dead objects
- Weak References
- Dispose vs. finalizers
- Proper disposal and finalization of objects
Reading and writing ZIP files
- Reading and writing Zip files
- Listing ZIP contents
- Extracting files from ZIP files
- Updating a ZIP file
StdErr stream
- Write to and read from StdErr stream
- Write to standard error output using Console
- Read from standard error of child process
Upload file and POST data to webserver
- Upload file and POST data to webserver
- Upload file with WebRequest
Acronym Glossary
- Acronym Glossary
- .Net Related Acronyms
Contributors

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