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4. Advance C#

Ali Asad and Hamza Ali1

(1)Sialkot, Pakistan

C# is a very rich language that provides too much sugar code that developers can take leverage from. In this chapter, we’ll look into some of the most popular features of C#, such as:

  1. Boxing/Unboxing

  2. Generics

  3. Collection

  4. Framework Interfaces

  5. Manipulating Strings

Boxing and Unboxing

Boxing and unboxing are important concepts in a C# type’s system. They were introduced in C# 1 when there was no defined concept for generalization of types.

Boxing

Boxing refers to implicit conversion of a value type into an object type, or to any interface that it implements, e.g., int to IComparable<int>. ...

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