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Published inNov 2023
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781837635870
Edition8th Edition
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Mark J. Price
Mark J. Price
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Mark J. Price

Mark J. Price is a Microsoft Specialist: Programming in C# and Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions, with over 20 years' experience. Since 1993, he has passed more than 80 Microsoft programming exams and specializes in preparing others to pass them. Between 2001 and 2003, Mark was employed to write official courseware for Microsoft in Redmond, USA. His team wrote the first training courses for C# while it was still an early alpha version. While with Microsoft, he taught "train-the-trainer" classes to get other MCTs up-to-speed on C# and .NET. Mark holds a Computer Science BSc. Hons. Degree.
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Test your knowledge and understanding by answering some questions, getting some hands-on practice, and exploring this chapter's topics with more in-depth research.

Exercise 9.1 – Test your knowledge

Answer the following questions:

  1. What is the difference between using the File class and the FileInfo class?
  2. What is the difference between the ReadByte method and the Read method of a stream?
  3. When would you use the StringReader, TextReader, and StreamReader classes?
  4. What does the DeflateStream type do?
  5. How many bytes per character does UTF-8 encoding use?
  6. What is an object graph?
  7. What is the best serialization format to choose to minimize space requirements?
  8. What is the best serialization format to choose for cross-platform compatibility?
  9. Why is it bad to use a string value like "\Code\Chapter01" to represent a path, and what should you do instead?
  10. Where can you find information about NuGet packages and their dependencies?

Exercise 9.2 &...

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Mark J. Price is a Microsoft Specialist: Programming in C# and Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions, with over 20 years' experience. Since 1993, he has passed more than 80 Microsoft programming exams and specializes in preparing others to pass them. Between 2001 and 2003, Mark was employed to write official courseware for Microsoft in Redmond, USA. His team wrote the first training courses for C# while it was still an early alpha version. While with Microsoft, he taught "train-the-trainer" classes to get other MCTs up-to-speed on C# and .NET. Mark holds a Computer Science BSc. Hons. Degree.
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