Part III. The .NET Class Library
The libraries of a new programming language are the means by which you build useful applications. You need to understand the language, but if you don't know the libraries, then you have to write every feature you require from scratch. C# relies on the .NET Framework Class Library, which contains thousands of classes that support everything from networking to data management and from parallel programming to databases. In this part of the book, I will show you some of the most useful parts of the library and demonstrate how they can be used to solve common problems.
In Chapter 19, we tour the collection classes, which are a consistent way to group related C# objects; there are very few C# programs written that don't ...
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