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Development Fundamentals 

This topic provides links to more information on basic application development tasks in the .NET Framework.

In This Section

  • Working with Base Types
    Discusses formatting and parsing base data types and using regular expressions to process text.
  • Collections and Data Structures
    Discusses the various collection types available in the .NET Framework, including stacks, queues, lists, arrays, and structs.
  • File and Stream I/O
    Explains how you can perform synchronous and asynchronous file and data stream access, and how to use to isolated storage.
  • Generics in the .NET Framework
    Describes the Generics feature, including the generic collections, delegates, and interfaces provided by the .NET Framework. Provides links to feature documentation for C#, Visual Basic and Visual C++, and to supporting technologies such as Reflection.
  • Security in the .NET Framework
    Provides links to more information on the classes and services in the common language runtime and the .NET Framework that facilitate secure application development.