Illustrated C# 2012

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Other Topics

• Overview
• Strings
• The StringBuilder Class
• Parsing Strings to Data Values
• More About the Nullable Types
• Method Main
• Documentation Comments
• Nested Types
• Destructors and the Dispose Pattern
• Interoperating with COM

Overview

In this chapter, I’ll cover a number of other topics that are important in using C# but that don’t fit neatly into one of the other chapters. These include string handling, nullable types, the Main method, documentation comments, and nested types.

Strings

Zeroes and ones are fine for internal computation, but for human-readable input and output, we need strings of characters. The BCL provides a number of classes that make string handling easy.

The C# predefined type string represents the .NET ...