Chapter 2. C# Language Fundamentals

Topics in This Chapter

  • Overview of a C# Program: In addition to the basic elements that comprise a C# program, a developer needs to be aware of other .NET features such as commenting options and recommended naming conventions.

  • Primitives: Primitives are the basic data types defined by the FCL to represent numbers, characters, and dates.

  • Operators: C# uses traditional operator syntax to perform arithmetic and conditional operations.

  • Program Flow Statements: Program flow can be controlled using if and switch statements for selection; and while, do, for, and foreach clauses for iteration.

  • String: The string class supports the expected string operations: concatenation, extracting substrings, searching for instances of ...

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