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Examining the .NET Framework Documentation

While examining how to set properties and call methods of objects, our discussion has referred to two classes in the .NET Framework: OleDbCommand and MailMessage. I've listed some of the properties of these two classes and have mentioned the ExecuteReader() method of the OleDbCommand class. You may be wondering how in the world I knew about these classes and how I found out about their particular properties and methods.

The .NET Framework contains literally hundreds of classes, each of which contains numerous properties and methods, so trying to commit to memory the various classes, properties, and methods is out of the question. Fortunately, there is extensive documentation for the .NET Framework, available ...