C# Primer: A Practical Approach

1.18. A Basic Language Handbook for C#

The three things left undone for a complete implementation of our WordCount application are (1) to illustrate how to implement the timing diagnostics, (2) to show how to conditionally output tracing statements, and (3) to package our code into the WordCount class. This last item is so important that it deserves its own chapter—Chapter 2 to be exact.

We look at how to generate the tracing output in Section 5.5.2 in the discussion of the TraceListener class hierarchy. The timing support is presented in Section 8.6.3 in the discussion of interoperability with the Win32 API. The remainder of this section provides a brief handbook of the C# basic language in the form of a set of tables with brief commentary. ...