.NET 4.0 Generics -- Table of Contents -- .NET 4.0 Generics -- Credits -- Foreword -- About the Author -- Acknowledgement -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Time for action - heading -- What just happened? -- Pop quiz - heading -- Have a go hero - heading -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Why Generics? -- An analogy -- Reason 1: Generics can save you a lot of typing -- Reason 2: Generics can save you type safety woes, big time -- What's the problem with this approach? -- Reason 3: Generics leads to faster code -- Reason 4: Generics is now ubiquitous in the .NET ecosystem -- Setting up the environment -- Summary -- 2. Lists -- Why bother learning about generic lists? -- Types of generic lists -- Checking whether a sequence is a palindrome or not -- Time for action - creating the generic stack as the buffer -- What just happened? -- Time for action - completing the rest of the method -- What just happened? -- Designing a generic anagram finder -- Time for action - creating the method -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - use this method to find anagrams from a dictionary -- Life is full of priorities, let's bring some order there -- Time for action - creating the data structure for the prioritized shopping list -- What just happened? -- Time for action - let's add some gadgets to the list and see them -- What just happened? -- Time for action - let's strike off the gadgets with top-most priority after we have bought them -- What just happened? -- Time for action - let's create an appointment list -- What just happened?.

Live sorting and statistics for online bidding -- Time for action - let's create a custom class for live sorting -- What just happened? -- Why did we have three LinkedList as part of the data structure? -- Pop quiz -- An attempt to answer questions asked by your boss -- Time for action - associating products with live sorted bid amounts -- What just happened? -- Time for action - finding common values across different bidding amount lists -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - finding common demographic statistics for the bidders -- You will win every scrabble game from now on -- Time for action - creating the method to find the character histogram of a word -- Time for action - checking whether a word can be formed -- Time for action - let's see whether it works -- Pop quiz -- Have a go hero - explain the code! -- Trying to fix an appointment with a doctor? -- Time for action - creating a set of dates of the doctors' availability -- What just happened? -- Time for action - finding out when both doctors shall be present -- What just happened? -- Pop quiz -- Revisiting the anagram problem -- Time for action - re-creating the anagram finder -- What just happened? -- Lists under the hood -- Summary -- 3. Dictionaries -- Types of generic associative structures -- Creating a tag cloud generator using dictionary -- Time for action - creating the word histogram -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero -- Pop quiz -- Creating a bubble wrap popper game -- Time for action - creating the game console -- What just happened? -- Look how easy it was! -- How did we decide we need a dictionary and not a list? -- Let's build a generic autocomplete service -- Time for action - creating a custom dictionary for autocomplete -- What just happened? -- Time for action - creating a class for autocomplete -- What just happened?.

The most common pitfall. Don't fall there! -- Let's play some piano -- Time for action - creating the keys of the piano -- What just happened? -- How are we recording the key strokes? -- Time for action - switching on recording and playing recorded keystrokes -- How it works? -- C# Dictionaries can help detect cancer. Let's see how! -- Time for action - creating the KNN API -- What just happened? -- Time for action - getting the patient records -- Time for action - creating the helper class to read a delimited file -- What just happened? -- Time for action - let's see how to use the predictor -- What just happened? -- Tuples are great for many occasions including games -- Time for action - putting it all together -- What just happened? -- Why have we used Tuples? -- How did we figure out whether the game is over or not? -- Have a go hero -- Summary -- 4. LINQ to Objects -- What makes LINQ? -- Extension methods -- Time for action - creating an Extension method -- What just happened? -- Time for action - consuming our new Extension method -- What just happened? -- Check out these guidelines for when not to use Extension methods -- Object initializers -- Collection initializers -- Implicitly typed local variables -- Anonymous types -- Lambda expressions -- Functors -- Predicates -- Actions -- Putting it all together, LINQ Standard Query Operators -- Time for action - getting the LINQPad -- Restriction operators -- Where() -- Time for action - finding all names with *am* -- What just happened? -- Time for action - finding all vowels -- What just happened? -- Time for action - finding all running processes matching a Regex -- What just happened? -- Time for action - playing with the indexed version of Where() -- What just happened? -- Time for action - learn how to go about creating a Where() clause -- What just happened? -- Pop quiz - doing the thing.

Projection operators -- Select() -- Time for action - let's say "Hello" to your buddies -- What just happened? -- Making use of the overloaded indexed version of Select() -- Time for action - radio "Lucky Caller" announcement -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - can you tell me what's going on here? -- SelectMany() -- Time for action - flattening a dictionary -- What just happened? -- Partitioning operators -- Take() -- Time for action - leaving the first few elements -- What just happened? -- TakeWhile() -- Time for action - picking conditionally -- What just happened? -- Skip() -- Time for action - skipping save looping -- What just happened? -- SkipWhile() -- Ordering operators -- Reverse() -- Time for action - reversing word-by-word -- What just happened? -- Time for action - checking whether a given string is a palindrome or not -- What just happened? -- OrderBy() -- Sorting an array of strings alphabetically -- Time for action - sorting names alphabetically -- What just happened? -- Time for action - sorting 2D points by their co-ordinates -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - sorting Student objects -- OrderByDescending() -- ThenBy() -- Time for action - sorting a list of fruits -- What's the difference between a sequence of OrderBy().OrderBy() and OrderBy().ThenBy()? -- ThenByDescending() -- Grouping operator -- GroupBy() -- Time for action - indexing an array of strings -- What just happened? -- Time for action - grouping by length -- What just happened? -- Set operators -- Intersect() -- Time for action - finding common names from two names' lists -- What just happened? -- Union() -- Time for action - finding all names from the list, removing duplicates -- What just happened? -- Concat() -- Time for action - pulling it all together including duplicates -- Except().

Time for action - finding all names that appear mutually exclusively -- What just happened? -- Distinct() -- Time for action - removing duplicate song IDs from the list -- Conversion operators -- ToArray() -- Time for action - making sure it works! -- What just happened? -- ToList() -- Time for action - making a list out of IEnumerable -- What just happened? -- ToDictionary() -- Time for action - tagging names -- What just happened? -- ToLookup() -- Time for action - one-to-many mapping -- What just happened? -- Element operators -- First() -- Time for action - finding the first element that satisfies a condition -- What just happened? -- How First() is different from Single()? -- FirstOrDefault() -- Time for action - getting acquainted with FirstOrDefault() -- What just happened? -- Last() -- LastOrDefault() -- SequenceEquals() -- Time for action - checking whether a sequence is palindromic -- What just happened? -- ElementAt() -- Time for action - understanding ElementAt() -- What just happened? -- ElementAtOrDefault() -- DefaultIfEmpty() -- Time for action - check out DefaultIfEmpty() -- What just happened? -- Generation operators -- Range() -- Time for action - generating arithmetic progression ranges -- What just happened? -- Time for action - running a filter on a range -- What just happened? -- Repeat() -- Time for action - let's go round and round with Repeat() -- What just happened? -- Quantifier operators -- Single() -- Time for action - checking whether there is only one item matching this pattern -- What just happened? -- Pop quiz - doing the thing -- SingleOrDefault() -- Time for action - set to default if there is more than one matching elements -- Any() -- Time for action - checking Any() -- What just happened? -- All() -- Time for action - how to check whether all items match a condition -- Merging operators -- Zip().

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