Simulating C Unions with C# Structs

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Simulating C Unions with C# Structs:

*How to use C# Structs to create a Union type Similar to C Unions

*C-Style Unions in C#

*Union Types in C can also contain Struct fields

Table Of Contents

0Getting Started With C#

1Literals

2Operators

3Conditional Statements

4Equality Operator

5Equals and GetHashCode

6Null-Coalescing Operator

7Null-Conditional Operators

8nameof Operator

9Verbatim String

10Common String Operations

11String Format

12String Concatenate

13String Manipulation

14String Interpolation

15String Escape Sequences

16StringBuilder

17Regex

18DateTime

19Arrays

20On Algorithm for circular rotation of an array

21Enum

22Tuples

23Overview of C# collections

24GUID

25BigInteger

26Collection Initializers

27Looping

28Iterators

29IEnumerable

30Value type vs Reference type

31Built-in Types

32Aliases of built-in types

33Anonymous types

34Dynamic type

35Type Conversion

36Casting

37Nullable types

38Constructors and Finalizers

39Access Modifiers

40Interfaces

41Static Classes

42Singleton Implementation

43Dependency Injection

44Partial class and methods

45Object Initializers

46Methods

47Extension Methods

48Named Arguments

49Named And Optional Arguments

50Data Annotation

51Keywords

52Recursion

53Naming Conventions

54XML Documentation Comments

55Comments and regions

56Inheritance

57Generics

58Using Statement

59Using Directive

60IDisposable interface

61Reflection

62IQueryable interface

63LINQ to Objects

64LINQ Queries

65LINQ to XML

66Parallel LINQ PLINQ

67XmlDocument

68XDocument

69C# 7.0 Features

70C# 6.0 Features

71C# 5.0 Features

72C# 4.0 Features

73C# 3.0 Features

74Exception Handling

75NullReferenceException

76Handling FormatException

77Read and Understand Stack trackes

78Diagnostics

79Overflow

80JSON handling

81Using json.net

82Lambda Expressions

83Lambda expressions

84Generic Lambda Query Builder

85Properties

86Initializing Properties

87INotifyPropertyChanged interface

88Events

89Expression Trees

90Overload Resolution

91Preprocessor directives

92Structs

93Attributes

94Delegates

95File and Stream IO

96Networking

97Performing HTTP requests

98Reading and writing .zip files

99FileSystemWatcher

100Asynchronous Socket

101Action Filters

102Polymorphism

103Immutability

104Indexer

105Checked and Unchecked

106Stream

107Timers

108Stopwatches

109Threading

110Async/Await, BackgroundWorker, Task and Thread examples

111Async Await

112Synchronization Context in Async/Await

113BackgroundWorker

114Task Parallel Library

115Making a variable thread safe

116Lock Statement

117Yield Keyword

118Task Parallel Library TPL Dataflow Constructs

119Functional Programming

120Func delegates

121Function with multiple return values

122Binary Serialization

123ICloneable

124IComparable

125Accessing Databases

126Using SQLite

127Caching

128Code Contracts

129Code Contracts and Assertions

130Structural Design Patterns

131Creational Design Patterns

132Implementing Decorating Design Pattern

133Implementing Flyweight Design Pattern

134System.Management.Automation

135Pointers

136Pointers and Unsafe Code

137Simulating C Unions with C# Structs

138Reactive Extensions Rx

139AsseblyInfo.cs examples

140Creating Console Application

141CLSCompliantAttribute

142ObservableCollection

143Hash Functions

144Generating Random Numbers

145Cryptography

146Unsafe Code in .NET

147C# Script

148Runtime Compile

149Interoperability

150.NET Compiler Platform Roslyn

151Creating Own MessageBox in Windows Form Application

152Including Font Resources

153Garbage Collector

154Windows Communication Foundation

155Contributors