Overview
The preceding chapters have covered most of
what you need to start writing useful programs using C#. This
chapter completes the discussion of the essential language elements
and goes on to discuss powerful aspects of C# that allow you to
extend the capabilities of the C# language. Specifically, this
chapter discusses the following:
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The operators available in C#
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The idea of equality when dealing with
reference and value types
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Data conversion between the primitive data
types
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Converting value types to reference types
using boxing
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Converting between reference types by
casting
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Overloading the standard operators to support
operations on the custom types you define
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Adding cast operators to the custom types you
define to support seamless data type conversions
