Summary

You have quite a number of available data types at your disposal when working with the .NET Framework. One of the most used types in your applications (especially apps that focus on the submission and retrieval of data) is the String data type. The string, being as important as it is, is the reason that this book has a complete chapter focused on how to use the string data type and manipulate it in your applications.

When working with strings in the past, it was quite common just to slice and dice the strings as needed using concatenation. With the .NET Framework, you can use the StringBuilder class to accomplish a lot of this task with better performance than before.

Last, but hardly least, advanced string manipulation using regular expressions is an excellent tool to search through and validate your strings.