B

\b escape, in regular expressions, 468, 469

\b meta-character, in regular expressions, 476

background threads, 365–366

backreferencing, in regular expressions, 478

backward interoperability, 423–428

base keyword, C#, 40

BCL (Base Class Libraries)

definition of, 5

primitive types, 17–18, 172

Beep method, Console class, 281

BeginRead method, Stream class, 261–264

BeginReceive method, sockets, 287

BeginSend method, sockets, 286

BeginWrite method, Stream class, 261

beq instruction, IL, 92, 569

Berkeley Sockets API. See sockets

bge instruction, IL, 92, 569

bgt instruction, IL, 569–570

binary instruction size, 86

binary readers, 264, 268–271

binary resources, 316–317

binary search of arrays, 224

binary writers, 264, 268–271

BinarySearch method

arrays, 224

lists, 237

Bind method, sockets, 283, 287–288

binding an assembly, 146, 147–150

binding, reflection, 497

BindingFlags enumeration, 502

bindings, caching, 513–514

bitwise operations, IL, 91

ble instruction, IL, 92, 570

blittable types, 434

blt instruction, IL, 92, 570–571

bne instruction, IL, 571

BOM (byte-order-mark), 321

books. See publications

bool type, IL, 17, 172

BooleanSwitch class, 455

boostrapper in assembly, 136

box instruction, IL, 93, 116, 563

boxing

of collections, 73–74

definition of, 23

of values, 93

br instruction, IL, 91, 550, 571

brackets ([]), in regular expressions, 465, 470, 471

branch instructions, IL, 91–92

break instruction, IL, 551

brfalse instruction, IL, 91, 551, 571

brinst instruction, IL, 91

brnull instruction, IL, 91

brtrue instruction, IL, 91, 551, 571

brzero instruction, IL, 91

buffered streams, 260–261, 278

BufferedStream class, 261, 278

builder APIs, 529–532

byref (pass-by-reference) arguments, 33–35, 90

byte-order-mark (BOM), 321

byval (pass-by-value) arguments, 33–34