.NET Programming: A Practical Guide Using C#

Summary

The BCL defines hundreds of useful interfaces and classes to boost a developer's productivity. In this chapter, we covered many important ones. Table 5.5 summarizes some of these interfaces and classes. As an exercise, I suggest that you cover the right-hand column and try to remember the idea behind each interface or class.

Table 5.5. BCL Interfaces and Classes

Name	Description
IEnumerable	Represents enumerable object. Makes foreach keyword in C# work.
IEnumerator	Represents enumerator object. Returned by the enumerable object via GetEnumerator method.
ICollection	Represents a collection. Inherits IEnumerable.
IList	Represents a manageable collection. Inherits ICollection and IEnumerable.
ICloneable	Provides the semantics of deep copy on an object. ...