W

\w class, in regular expressions, 466, 471

WaitForPendingFinalizers method, GC class, 203

WaitHandle class, 357

WaitSleepJoin state, Thread object, 358, 362, 363

weak references, 204–205

weakly typed collections, 246–247

weakly typed resources, 319

Web resources, permission to use, 339

web services, 4

WebClient class, 294–295

wildcards, in regular expressions, 464

Win32 events, 384–385

Windows APIs, history of, 3–4

Windows Event Log

definition of, 439

permission to access, 338

tracing output written to, 452

Windows Forms, 4, 5

Windows types, 434

Windows.h file, 136

WinFX, 5

workstation garbage collection, 122

WOW64 (Windows-on-Windows64), 7

wrapped exceptions, 108

Write method

binary data, 270

NetworkStream class, 286–287

Stream class, 258–259

WriteByte method, Stream class, 258

WriteLine method, strings, 267

writers, 255–256