Illustrated C# 2012

C H A P T E R  6

More About Classes

• Class Members
• Order of Member Modifiers
• Instance Class Members
• Static Fields
• Static Function Members
• Other Static Class Member Types
• Member Constants
• Constants Are Like Statics
• Properties
• Instance Constructors
• Static Constructors
• Object Initializers
• Destructors
• The readonly Modifier
• The this Keyword
• Indexers
• Access Modifiers on Accessors
• Partial Classes and Partial Types
• Partial Methods

Class Members

The previous two chapters covered two of the nine types of class members: fields and methods. In this chapter, I’ll introduce all the other class members except events and operators, and explain their features. I’ll cover events in Chapter 14.

Table 6-1 shows a list of the class member types. Those that have ...