Table 1-2: Some
General FCL Namespaces
Namespace
Description of Contents
System.Management
Types used for managing other computers in the enterprise via Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
System.Net
Types that allow for network communications
System.Reflection
Types that allow the inspection of metadata and late binding to types and their members
System.Resources
Types for manipulating external data resources
System.Runtime.InteropServices
Types that allow managed code to access unmanaged OS platform facilities such as COM components and functions in Win32 DLLs
System.Runtime.Remoting
Types that allow for types to be accessed remotely
System.Runtime.Serialization
Types that allow for instances of objects to be persisted and regenerated from a stream
System.Security
Types used for protecting data and resources
System.Text
Types to work with text in different encodings, such as ASCII or Unicode
System.Threading
Types used for asynchronous operations and synchronizing access to resources