Index

A

Abort method, Thread class 273

abstraction 92

access specifiers 81

activated service and client and attributes 359

Active Directory

accessing 214

changing password 222

connecting and binding to 215

deleting objects 223

Directory caching 226-227

reading attributes of an object 217-218

searching directory 224-225

traversing objects in 216

writing and modifying attributes of object 220-221

writing new objects to 219

Add method, ArrayLists class 54

Add method, Hashtable class 56

addition assignment operator += 31, 32

addition operator + 31

AddRef method, Marshall class 158

address space 122

ADO.NET

basic concepts 230-231

changes from 1.0 to 1.1 257

creating and populating DataTables 243-244

creating database connections 232-233

events 242

using DataReader 241

using DataSets 234-240

using DataViews to control display of DataGrid 256

working with data in databases 245-255

alert escape character \a 16

AllocCoTaskMem method, Marshall class 158

AND bitwise operator (&) 38

AND logical operator (&&) 37

anonymous methods 139

Apartment probe enabling custom debug probes in interop 342

Append method, String class 108

Append method, StringBuilder class 108

Application domains 146-147

Application state, ASP.NET 477

ArgumentException class adding a new key to Hashtable 56

ArgumentNullException class adding a new key to Hashtable 56

arithmetic operators

example 32

precedence 44

table 31

ArrayList class, System.Collections namespace 53

example using foreach loop 55

arrays 50

example 51-52

using in COM interop 186-192

ASP.NET

and threading 282

Application state 477

basics 474

caching 490-492

common events 478

configuration

AppSettings configurations 483

configuration attributes 481-483

configuration file elements 479-480

HTTP classes 483

controls 495-498

debugging contention problems in 347

directives 475

forms-based authentication 493

Page directive attributes 476

user sessions

cookieless 489

cookies 484-485

session state 486-488

Windows-based authentication 494

Assembly class

Load method 148

LoadFrom method 148

assembly X386

calling conventions 313-314

debugging instructions 311-312

debugging registers 313

Assert statement 301

assignment operators

precedence table 44

asynchronous calls 285 -287

AutomationProxy COM attribute 157

AutoPostBack property, DropDownList control 507