Microsoft .Net

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Microsoft .Net

• Sven Groot

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Common Language Runtime

• Superset of ECMA Common Language Infrastructure
• Defines
• Language-neutral platform
• Intermediate Language
• Deployment file format (assemblies)
• Extensible metadata
• COM/Platform interop

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Common Type System
Interface
Object
String
array
class
MarshalByRefObject
ValueType
class
ContextBoundObject
Enum
struct
Boolean, Byte, Int16, Int32, Int64, Char,
Decimal, Guid, Single, DOuble, DateTime, TimeSpan
class
enum
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Common Type System (contd)

• One class can implement multiple interfaces

interface IShape void Draw() interface
ICowboy void Draw() class CowboyShape
Ishape, ICowboy void IShape.Draw()
void ICowboy.Draw()
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Common Type System (contd)

• Also defines conventions for naming
• Property get/set (property Foo ? get_Foo,
  set_Foo)
• No exception specifications
• Delegates

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Language Independance

• Common Type System vs. Common Language
  Specification
• Microsoft supported languages
• C (ECMA)
• Visual Basic .Net
• Managed C
• J
• JScript.Net
• Plus over 40 third-party languages

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Assemblies

• Similar to Java package
• Can be one or multiple files
• Contain
• Manifest
• Modules (code)
• Resources
• Satellite assemblies for localised resources
• Strongly named
• Strong name (publisher token, assembly name,
  version vector, culture)

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Common Language Frameworks

• System
• System.Collections, System.Collections.Specialised
  
• System.Reflection, System.Reflection.Emit
• System.Security (cryptography, permissions)
• System.Text (regular expressions, encodings)
• System.Threading
• System.Configuration
• System.Globalization
• System.Resources
• System.Management
• System.Drawing
• System.Runtime.InteropServices
• System.ServiceProcess
• System.Data
• System.DirectoryServices

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Common Language Frameworks

• System.EnterpriseServices
• System.IO
• System.Messaging
• System.Runtime.Remoting
• System.Runtime.Serialization
• System.Diagnostics
• System.CodeDom
• System.Runtime.CompilerServices
• System.Web
• System.Net
• System.Xml
• System.ComponentModel
• System.Web.UI
• System.Windows.Forms

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More resources

• http//msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/
• http//www.gotdotnet.com
• http//www.liacs.nl/sgroot/cbse/