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abstract classes, Abstract Classes and Abstract Members

access levels of accessors, get and set accessibility

access modifiers, Access Modifiers–Accessibility Capping

accessibility capping, Accessibility Capping

accessors, Properties, get and set accessibility, Event Accessors

Action delegate, The Func and Action Delegates

add to self operator (+=), Operator Table

addition operator (+), Arithmetic Operators

address-of operator (&), Pointer Basics

Aggregate operator, LINQ, Standard Query Operators

aggregating elements, LINQ, Aggregation operators, Standard Query Operators, Standard Query Operators

alert, escape sequence for, Strings and Characters

aliasing, Aliasing Types and Namespaces

All operator, LINQ, Quantifiers, Standard Query Operators

and operator, bitwise (&), Bitwise operators

and operator, conditional (&&), Conditional Operators, Preprocessor Directives

and self by operator (&=), Operator Table

anonymous methods, Anonymous Methods–Anonymous Methods

anonymous types, Anonymous Types–Anonymous Types

Any operator, LINQ, Quantifiers, Standard Query Operators

ArgumentException class, Common Exception Types

ArgumentNullException class, Common Exception Types

ArgumentOutOfRangeException class, Common Exception Types

arguments, A First C# Program, Definite Assignment, Parameters–Named arguments, Named arguments, Generic Types

named arguments, Named arguments

type arguments, Generic Types

arithmetic operators, Arithmetic Operators

Array class, Arrays

arrays, Arrays–Simplified Array Initialization Expressions, Arrays, Arrays, Arrays, Arrays, Arrays, Default Element Initialization, Multidimensional Arrays, Rectangular arrays, Jagged arrays, Simplified Array Initialization Expressions, Definite Assignment, The stackalloc keyword, Fixed-size buffers

allocating to stack, The stackalloc keyword

allocating within a struct, Fixed-size buffers

automatic initialization of, Definite Assignment

copying, Arrays

initializing, Arrays, Default Element Initialization, Simplified Array Initialization Expressions

iterating through, Arrays

jagged, Jagged arrays

multidimensional, Multidimensional Arrays

rectangular, Rectangular arrays

searching, Arrays

sorting, Arrays

as operator, The as operator

AsEnumerable operator, LINQ, Standard Query Operators

AsQueryable operator, LINQ, Standard Query Operators

assemblies, Compilation, Friend Assemblies

assignment operator (=), Literals, Punctuators, and Operators, Assignment Expressions

assignment operators, Literals, Punctuators, and Operators, Value types, Reference types, Assignment Expressions, Assignment Expressions, Operator Overloading

assignment expressions, Assignment Expressions

compound, Assignment Expressions, Operator Overloading

reference types, Reference types

value types, Value types

assignment, definite, Definite Assignment

associativity of operators, Operator Precedence and Associativity

async keyword, Asynchronous Functions (C# 5.0), The await and async Keywords–The await and async Keywords

asynchronous functions, Asynchronous Functions (C# 5.0)–Asynchronous Lambda Expressions, Capturing Local State–Capturing Local State, Writing Asynchronous Functions–Returning Task<TResult>, Returning Task<TResult>, Parallelism–Parallelism, Asynchronous Lambda Expressions–Asynchronous Lambda Expressions

lambda expressions, Asynchronous Lambda Expressions–Asynchronous Lambda Expressions

local state, capturing, Capturing Local State–Capturing Local State

parallelism with, Parallelism–Parallelism

returning a task, Returning Task<TResult>

writing, Writing Asynchronous Functions–Returning Task<TResult>

attributes, Attributes–Caller Info Attributes (C# 5.0), Attribute Classes, Named and Positional Attribute Parameters, Attribute Targets, Specifying Multiple Attributes, Writing Custom Attributes, Retrieving Attributes at Runtime, Caller Info Attributes (C# 5.0)–Caller Info Attributes (C# 5.0)

attribute classes, Attribute Classes

attribute parameters, Named and Positional Attribute Parameters

caller info attributes, Caller Info Attributes (C# 5.0)–Caller Info Attributes (C# 5.0)

custom attributes, Writing Custom Attributes

multiple, specifying, Specifying Multiple Attributes

retrieving at runtime, Retrieving Attributes at Runtime

targets of, Attribute Targets

automatic properties, Automatic properties

Average operator, LINQ, Aggregation operators, Standard Query Operators

await keyword, Asynchronous Functions (C# 5.0), The await and async Keywords–The await and async Keywords