Looking for help

This section is about how to find quality information about programming on the Web.

MSDN

The definitive resource for getting help about C# and .NET is the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN).

Visual Studio is integrated with MSDN, so if you press F1 inside a C# keyword or type, then it will open your browser and take you to the official documentation.

Almost all the reference URLs at the end of chapters in this book will take you to MSDN.

Getting the definition of code

Another useful keystroke is F12. This will show what the original source code looks like. It uses a similar technique as IL DASM to reverse engineer the source code from Microsoft assemblies.

Enter the following code, click inside int, and then press F12 (or right-click ...

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