Microsoft Visual C# Step by Step, Ninth Edition

CHAPTER 16

Handling binary data and using indexers

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Store and display integer data using binary and hexadecimal representations.

• Perform bitwise operations in binary data.

• Encapsulate logical array-like access to an object by using indexers.

• Control read access to indexers by declaring get accessors.

• Control write access to indexers by declaring set accessors.

• Create interfaces that declare indexers.

• Implement indexers in structures and classes that inherit from interfaces.

Chapter 15, “Implementing properties to access fields,” describes how to implement and use properties as a means of providing controlled access to the fields in a class. Properties are useful for mirroring fields that contain ...