Application Development

Abstract

This chapter covers some of the fundamental activities you will need to perform when developing your C# solutions. The recipes in this chapter describe how to do the following:

• Use the C# command-line compiler to build console and Windows Forms applications (recipes 1-1 and 1-2)

• Create and use code modules and libraries (recipes 1-3 and 1-4)

• Access command-line arguments from within your applications (recipe 1-5)

• Use compiler directives and attributes to selectively include code at build time (recipe 1-6)

• Access program elements built in other languages whose names conflict with C# keywords (recipe 1-7)

• Give assemblies strong names and verify strong-named assemblies (recipes 1-8, 1-9, 1-10, and 1-11)

• Sign an assembly with a Microsoft Authenticode digital signature (recipes 1-12 and 1-13)

• Manage the shared assemblies that are stored in the global assembly cache (recipe 1-14)

• Prevent people from decompiling your assembly (recipe 1-15)

• Manipulate the appearance of the console (recipe 1-16)

• Create static, anonymous, and dynamically expandable types (recipes 1-17, 1-18, and 1-19)

• Define automatically implemented properties (recipe 1-20)

• Overload an operator and implement a custom conversion operator (recipes 1-21 and 1-22)

• Handle an event with an anonymous function (recipe 1-23)

• Implement a customer indexer (recipe 1-24)