B

BackColor property, control appearance, 996

background threads, 556–557

background workers

enable cancel, 585–586

enable progress, 586–587

thread synchronization and, 581–585

BAML (Binary Application Markup Language), 1134

BareTheme theme, 1286–1287

base class layer, AJAX Library, 1307

base classes

casts between base and derived classes, 187

exception handling and, 372–374

.NET base class library, 20

serialization, 789

ServiceBase class, 722–723, 744

basicHttpBinding, 1530

BeginEdit( ) method, altering DataRow data, 874

BeginGetResponse( ) method, WebRequest, 1342–1345

BeginInit( ) method, custom controls, 1029–1030

BeginInvoke( ) method, delegates, 1441–1442

Beginning XML (Wiley Publishing, Inc.), 901

BeginReceive( ) method, asynchronous reads, 1498

BehaviorEditorPart control, 1292

Binary Application Markup Language (BAML), 1134

binary code reuse, 246

binary files, reading/writing, 810–815

BinaryFileReader application, 812–815

BinaryMessageFormatter, 1495–1496

BinaryReader class, 809–810

BinaryWriter class, 809–810

Bind( ) expression, 1246

binding

locating assemblies, 510

parameters to activities, 1570–1571

Windows Communication Foundation, 1533–1535

Windows Forms. See data binding, Windows Forms

Windows Presentation Foundation. See data binding, WPF

binding, Active Directory, 1595–1600

authentication, 1599

with DirectoryEntry class, 1599–1600

distinguished name, 1597–1598

overview of, 1595–1596

port number, 1596

protocol, 1596

server name, 1596

username, 1599

BindingContext property, 998, 1054–1056

bit arrays, 311–317

BitArray class, 312–314

BitVector32 class, 314–317

overview of, 311

bit shifting operators, 156

BitArray class, 312–314

methods, 312

BitBlt (bitmap block transfer), 1105–1106

bitmap images, adding to custom controls, 1030

BitVector32 class, 314–317

bitwise operators

overloading, 180

precedence, 163

blittable data types

defined, 960

marshalling and, 755

blue color values. See RGB (red-green-blue) values

Boolean operators, 163

Boolean types, 43–44

borders

forms, 1021

ListBox controls, 1179

Bounds property, controls, 995

boxing

casts, 188

type conversion and, 168, 244–245

break statements, 56

breakpoints, Visual Studio code, 428–429

browser compatibility layer, AJAX Library, 1307

browser control. SeeWebBrowser control

brushes

in GDI+, 1098–1099

using pens with, 1099–1100

bubble-sorting algorithm, 205

bubbling events, WPF, 1158

buffered streams, 810

building projects, Visual Studio 2005 terminology, 423

business service layer, Enterprise Services for, 1455

Button class

CheckBox, 1000

overview of, 998–999

RadioButton, 1000

button click-handler, in server control example, 1235–1236

Button controls, adding Internet Explorer, 1350–1354

buttons, programming WPF, 1135–1136

ByRef keyword, parameter modifiers in Visual Basic, 1629

byte code markers, 816–817