Essential C# 8.0, 7th Edition

10. Well-Formed Types

The previous chapters covered most of the constructs for defining classes and structs. However, several details remain to round out the type definition with fit-and-finish-type functionality. This chapter explains how to put the final touches on a type declaration.

Well-formed types provide standard sets for defining overriding object members, operator overloading, defining namespaces, XML comments, garbage collection, and resource cleanup. The XML comments associate with programming constructs and generate an XML documentation file. The garbage collection includes weak references. The resource cleanup features finalizers, ...