About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- Contents at a Glance -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Hello C# -- C# Statements and Control Flow -- Classes I: Creating Classes -- Structs -- Properties and Indexers -- Overloaded Operators -- Delegates and Events -- Namespaces -- Class Design and Inheritance -- Interfaces -- Programming with Attributes -- Programming with Exceptions -- Memory Management and Object Lifetimes -- Unmanaged Programming and Interoperability -- Multithreaded C# Programming -- Collections -- .NET Library -- Reflection and Metadata -- Versioning -- Defensive Programming -- Profiling C# Applications -- Preprocessor Directives -- XML Documentation -- Index.