Introduction to delegates and events. Multicast delegates. Defining a Delegate for an event. Using EventArgs. Declaring and firing an event. Acting on an event with an event handler.

Overloadable operators. Implementing Value Equality. Logically paired operators. Custom implicit and explicit conversions. Three-state logic operators.

Using the Regex class. Match and MatchCollection classes. Creating regular expressions for matching text. Procedural and Expression-based patterns. Example patterns such as detecting IP addresses, removing leading path from filename, extracting all numbers from a string.

Accessing XML documents with XmlReader and XmlWriter. Parsing an XML stream with XmlDocument. Selecting nodes using XPath. XML and the XPathDocument class. Transforming a document using XSLT.

Standard Query Operators, LINQ to Objects, Deferred Execution, LINQ to XML, LINQ to Sql, Extension Methods, Lambda Expressions, Comprehension Query Syntax.

Entity Data Model Designer, Calling Stored Procedures, Inserting Records, Updating Records, Deleting Records.

Introduction to Serialization. Explicit and implicit serialization.IDeserialization callback and ISerializable.

Type hierarchy. AppDomains, assemblies and modules. Retrieving the type for an instance. Late binding. Creating new types at runtime.

Dependency Inversion Principle. Inversion of Control. Dependancy Injection. Constructor Injection. Method Injection. Property Injection.

Calling exported functions from DLLs.

The ‘DllImport’ attribute. Using ‘unsafe’ and ‘fixed’ to write code to use native pointers and control garbage collection.

The Attribute Usage attribute. Defining a new custom attribute. Retrieving a Custom Attribute at runtime.

The thread class. Starting, aborting, suspending and resuming a thread. Thread safety. The Monitor class. The ThreadPool class. Synchronization issues. Asynchronous Programming using Async/Await. Creating an Asynchronous WCF Service. Calling a WCF Service Asynchronously.