B

background, tasks, 904

interactive applications, 905

BackgroundWorker control, 910

base class, 116

abstract

MustInherit keyword, 160–161

MustOverride keyword, 161

fragile base class problem

implementation and, 202–203

interfaces and, 200–201

BeginExecuteNonQuery method, 352

BeginExecuteReader method, 352

BeginExecuteXmlReader method, 352

behavior, 64

bin directory, Visual Studio, 509

binary formatter, 1003

binding, COM, 874

BitArray object, Collections namespace, 42

blogs, author blogs, 1204

books, 1204

Boolean datatype, 25

Boolean types, 26–28

bootstrapper, ClickOnce deployment, 870

borders, Windows Forms, 605

boxing, 44–45

BSTR structure, 211

buffering, streaming XML email and, 416

build configurations (Visual Studio), 546–549

BuildSqlCommand method, 356

Button control, 639

local resources, 247

Byte datatype, 22, 25, 32–33