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Video lecture about serialization and deserialization in the C# programming language.

The video is recorded in 2014 in a training I was delivering in Burgas, Bulgaria.

Topics covered:

• Serialization Overview
  • Serialization Advantages
• Serialization Formatters
  • The [Serializable] Attribute
• IDeserializationCallback Interface
• XML Serialization

Video lecture about strings and text processing in the C# programming language.

The video is recorded in 2014 in a training I was delivering in Burgas, Bulgaria.

Topics covered:

• What is String?
• Creating and Using Strings
  • Declaring, Creating, Reading and Printing
• Manipulating Strings
  • Comparing, Concatenating, Searching, Extracting Substrings, Splitting
• Other String Operations
  • Replacing Substrings, Deleting Substrings, Changing Character Casing, Trimming
• Building and Modifying Strings
  • Why the + Operator is Slow?
  • Using the StringBuilder Class
• Formatting Strings
  • Formatting Numbers, Dates and Currency
• Cultures and Culture-Sensitive Formatting
  • Accessing and Assigning the Current Culture
  • Parsing Numbers and Dates

Video lecture about text files and streams in the C# programming language.

The video is recorded in 2014 in a training I was delivering in Burgas, Bulgaria.

Topics covered:

• What is Stream?
  • Stream Basics
• Reading Text Files
  • The StreamReader Class
• Writing Text Files
  • The StreamWriter Class
• Handling I/O Exceptions

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Video lecture about exceptions and exception handling in the C# programming language.

The video is recorded in 2014 in a training I was delivering in Burgas, Bulgaria.

Topics covered:

• What are Exceptions?
• Handling Exceptions
• The System.Exception Class
• Types of Exceptions and their Hierarchy
• Raising (Throwing) Exceptions
• Best Practices