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Programming in the .NET Environment

ISBN: 0201770180
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2002
Pages: 146

Authors: Damien Watkins, Mark Hammond, Brad Abrams

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• Main Page
• Table of content
• Copyright
• Microsoft .NET Development Series
• Titles in the Series
• Foreword
• Preface
• Intended Audience for This Book
• Organization of This Book
• Our Motivation for Writing This Book
• Current Status of the .NET Framework
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. Introducing the .NET Framework
• Programming Issues
• Solutions
• Comparing the .NET Framework and IDL-Based Systems
• Elements of the .NET Framework
• Exposing the .NET Framework
• Applications and the .NET Framework
• Terminology
• Example: Hello World
• Summary
• Chapter 2. The Type System
• The Relationship Between Programming Languages and Type Systems
• Elements of the CLR Type System
• Value Types
• Reference Types
• Example: User-Defined Object Type
• Example: Use of Interfaces on Value Types
• Assignment Compatibility
• Nested Types
• Visibility
• Accessibility
• Summary
• Chapter 3. The Metadata System
• Metadata Issues
• Saving Metadata About Types: IDL Files
• Reflection: Inspection of a Type s Metadata
• Metadata Tools and Extensions
• Dynamic Discovery of Types
• Assemblies and Manifests
• Meta-Programming
• Metadata File Format
• COM Interop
• Summary
• Chapter 4. The Execution System
• The Execution System Versus Other Component Models
• Intermediate Language
• Starting a CLR Program
• COR Debugger
• Application Domains
• Memory Management
• Security
• Policy Manager
• Stack Walks
• Declarative and Imperative Style
• Summary
• Chapter 5. Building Applications
• Existing Technologies to Solve Application-Related Problems
• Assemblies
• Example: A Simple Assembly
• Embedded and Linked Resources
• The Assembly Linker
• Public and Private Assemblies
• Assembly Versioning
• Internationalization and Localization
• Application Domains
• Summary
• Chapter 6. Deploying Applications
• Configuration Files
• Downloading Web Content
• Installing Applications
• Using the CLI on Non-Windows Platforms
• Summary
• Chapter 7. The Framework Class Library
• A Historical Perspective
• Goals of the .NET Framework
• Design Guidelines
• Namespaces
• Looking Back and Looking Ahead
• Summary
• Appendix A. Visual Basic .NET
• Type System Additions
• Type System Modifications
• Platform Changes
• Language Cleanup
• New Features
• Future Directions
• Conclusions
• Appendix B. C
• History and Design Goals
• The C Type System
• Component-Oriented Development
• Unsafe Code
• Neat Things
• A Stack Component Example
• Future Directions
• C and Standardization
• Conclusions
• Appendix C. Python for .NET
• A Brief Overview of Python
• Python for .NET
• Using Python for .NET
• Limitations of Python for .NET
• Possible .NET and Python Enhancements
• Alternative Implementation Strategies
• Conclusions
• Appendix D. Perl and the .NET Runtime
• Perl for .NET Research Compiler
• PerlNET Component Builder
• Supported .NET Features
• PerlNET Status
• Example: A Windows Forms Application
• Conclusions
• Appendix E. Component Pascal on the CLR
• About Component Pascal
• Mapping to the CLR
• Semantic Challenges
• Conclusions
• Appendix F. Hotdog: Compiling Scheme to Object-Oriented Virtual Machines
• Introduction to the Hotdog Scheme Compiler
• Scheme, Briefly
• Object-Oriented Virtual Machines
• Implementations
• Limitations
• Performance Improvements
• Conclusions
• References
• Appendix G. Functional Languages for the .NET Framework
• A Brief Introduction to Mondrian
• Types in Mondrian
• Functions in Mondrian
• Calling Other CLR-Hosted Languages
• The Power of .NET: A Multilanguage Example
• Conclusions
• References
• Appendix H. Active Oberon for .NET: A Case Study in Language Model Mapping
• History of the ETH Programming Languages
• The Active Object System
• The Mapping to the Common Type System
• Summary and Conclusions
• Acknowledgments
• References
• Glossary
• Suggested Reading List