Chapter 2. Numbers, Dates, and Other Data Types
Programming is, to a large extent, the science of dealing with data. In the previous chapter, you saw how to use .NET strings and regular expressions to manipulate text. In this chapter, we consider the rest of the core types in the Microsoft .NET Framework, including numbers, dates, and specialty types such as GUIDs and enumerations.
Some of the recipes in this chapter focus on fundamentals for dealing with data types. For example, you’ll learn how to validate dates, format numeric values, access trigonometric functions, and convert binary and hexadecimal values. Other recipes present more advanced techniques that might require custom classes. Recipes Work with Complex Numbers, Work with Vectors ...
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