Beginning C# 2008 Objects: From Concept to Code

13.16. Summary

We've just been on a whirlwind tour of the C# language! Although there is much more that can be said about C#, you've been armed with all the essential information that you'll need in order to understand—and experiment with—the sample SRS application that we'll build in the remaining chapters of the book.

In particular, we discussed the following:

• The C# notion of namespaces and how they are used to divide classes and interfaces into logical units

• The object nature of strings and some of the methods provided to manipulate them

• The parent of all C# types: the Object class

• The object nature of Arrays in a bit more depth

• How to use two of C#'s collection classes, List and Dictionary, and the use of a foreach loop to iterate through the ...