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C# 2010 Recipes
A Problem-Solution Approach
Quick answers and ready-to-use code to get you more productive in C# 2010 development

Allen Jones and Adam Freeman

Visual C# 2010 Recipes
A Problem-Solution Approach

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Allen Jones and Adam Freeman

Visual C# 2010 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach Copyright © 2010 by Allen Jones and AdamFreeman All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner and the publisher. ISBN-13 (pbk): 978-1-4302-2525-6 ISBN-13 (electronic): 978-1-4302-2526-3 Printed and bound inthe United States of America 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Trademarked names may appear in this book. Rather than use a trademark symbol with every occurrence of a trademarked name, we use the names only in an editorial fashion and to the benefit of the trademark owner, with no intention of infringement of the trademark. Publisher and President: Paul Manning Lead Editor: Jonathan Hassell TechnicalReviewer: Mark Collins Editorial Board: Clay Andres, Steve Anglin, Mark Beckner, Ewan Buckingham, Gary Cornell, Jonathan Gennick, Jonathan Hassell, Michelle Lowman, Matthew Moodie, Duncan Parkes, Jeffrey Pepper, Frank Pohlmann, Douglas Pundick, Ben Renow-Clarke, Dominic Shakeshaft, Matt Wade, Tom Welsh Coordinating Editor: Anne Collett Copy Editor: Damon Larson Production Support: Patrick CunninghamIndexer: Julie Grady Artist: April Milne Cover Designer: Anna Ishchenko Distributed to the book trade worldwide by Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., 233 Spring Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10013. Phone 1-800-SPRINGER, fax 201-348-4505, e-mail orders-ny@springer-sbm.com, or visit www.springeronline.com. For information on translations, please e-mail rights@apress.com, or visit www.apress.com.Apress and friends of ED books may be purchased in bulk for academic, corporate, or promotional use. eBook versions and licenses are also available for most titles. For more information, reference our Special Bulk Sales–eBook Licensing web page at www.apress.com/info/bulksales. The information in this book is distributed on an “as is” basis, without warranty. Although every precaution has beentaken in the preparation of this work, neither the author(s) nor Apress shall have any liability to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by the information contained in this work. The source code for this book is available to readers at www.apress.com.

For my lovely wife Lena, and our three wonderful girls, Anya,Alexia, and Angelina. I love you all. —Allen Jones For my wife, Jacqui Griffyth, who I love a great deal. —Adam Freeman

Contents at a Glance
About the Author ...................................................................................................... xx About the Technical Reviewers ............................................................................... xxi Acknowledgments.................................................................................................. xxii Introduction ........................................................................................................... xxiii ■Chapter 1: Application Development ....................................................................... 1 ■Chapter 2: Data Manipulation................................................................................ 53 ■Chapter 3: Application Domains, Reflection, and Metadata ................................ 103 ■Chapter 4: Threads, Processes, and Synchronization ......................................... 149 ■Chapter 5: Files, Directories, and I/O................................................................... 205 ■Chapter 6: XML Processing...