Programming in the .NET Environment
Programming in the .NET Environment
ISBN: 0201770180
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2002
Pages: 146
Pages: 146
- 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
Programming in the .NET Environment
ISBN: 0201770180
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2002
Pages: 146
Pages: 146