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Introduction to .NET

‰ A new platform for building Internet applications and Web

services
‰ Contains runtime, messaging, services, data access,
interoperability, HTTP services, ASP+, and more
Introduction to .NET
‰ Supports multi-language development
‰ Has a rich set of internet-supporting technologies
daniel.flemstrom@mdh.se ‰ A common class library with a standard set of classes which
all inherits from a base class called Object
‰ The .Net Frameworks Object Model is called VOS
Virtual Object System

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What Does .NET Give You? The .NET framework

‰ Data access VB C++ C# JScript …
‰ Functionality of the Win 32 API that is accessible through a
simple object model Common Language Specification
‰ The VB language has been upgraded

Visual Studio.NET
‰ C#
ASP.NET Windows Forms
‰ Memory management
ADO.NET and XML
‰ ASP.NET
‰ Programming languages have been moved closer together Base Class Library
‰ Assembly
Common Language Runtime

Windows COM+ Services

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Common Type System and CLS The .NET framework

‰ CLS(Common Language Specification) Compliant Attribute
VB C++ C# JScript …
z A subset of Common Type System
z Assembly can be tagged with Common Language Specification
[assembly: System.CLSCompliant(true)]
Compiler issues a warning if non compliant types are used.
Visual Studio.NET

z Solves the cross language access problem in COM

ASP.NET Windows Forms
(e.g C++ has types that is not supported by VB)
z (Private) types, methods may still be marked with ADO.NET and XML
[CLSCompliant(false)]
Common Type Base Class Library
System(CTS)

C+
Common Language Runtime
+
VB
CLS
Windows COM+ Services
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Languages Supported by .NET The .NET framework

VB C++ C# JScript …
‰ C# ‰ APL
‰ C++ ‰ Cobol Common Language Specification

Visual Studio.NET
‰ VB ‰ Component Pascal
‰ JScript ‰ Eiffel ASP.NET Windows Forms
‰ Standard ML ‰ Haskell
‰ SmallTalk ‰ Mercury ADO.NET and XML
‰ Scheme ‰ Oberon
Base Class Library
‰ Python ‰ Perl
‰ ... ‰ ...
Common Language Runtime
Note that the languages typically have to be extended
to handle managed code, attributes etc
which makes them .NET Specific Windows COM+ Services
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Common Language Runtime Common Language Runtime(simplified)

Base Class Library Support
.NET PE
Thread Support COM Marshaler File

Type Checker Exception Manager

Verifier Managed
Class Native Code

JIT
Security Engine Debug Engine Loader

IL to Native Code Garbage

Compilers Manager Collector
JIT Compilers
Class Loader
CLR’s Virtual Execution Engine

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The .NET framework Base Class Library Namespaces

VB C++ C# JScript … System

Common Language Specification Collections Security

Configuration ServiceProcess
Visual Studio.NET

ASP.NET Windows Forms

Diagnostics Text
ADO.NET and XML
Globalization Threading
Base Class Library IO Runtime
Net InteropServices
Common Language Runtime
Reflection Remoting
Windows COM+ Services Serialization
Resources
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The .NET framework Database Support in .NET

‰ Create your database
VB C++ C# JScript …
‰ Use Visual Studio to create
Datalink and typed dataset out
[Customers]
Common Language Specification of your database.

Visual Studio.NET
‰ open OleDbConnection
ASP.NET Windows Forms CustomerSet
‰ OleDbDataAdapter for
SQL command
ADO.NET and XML ADO.NET
‰ Use the adapter to fill out
your custom dataset with
Base Class Library the requested information
‰ Modify your dataset CustomerInfo
Common Language Runtime DB
‰ Create update command
with the OleDbCommandBuilder
Windows COM+ Services ‰ Update the database with the adapter
(given your dataset)
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XML Support The .NET framework

VB C++ C# JScript …
‰ XML Is used everywhere
Common Language Specification
‰ Store / Retrieve Datasets in XML

Visual Studio.NET
‰ XMLTextReader, XMLTextWriter
ASP.NET Windows Forms
‰ XMLDataDocument
z W3C Document Object Model (DOM) ADO.NET and XML
‰ XMLNode
‰ XPath, XslTransform Base Class Library
‰ XMLSerialization
‰...
Common Language Runtime

Windows COM+ Services

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ASP.NET and Web Forms Windows Forms

Web Browser ‰ Components needed to create windows applications
IIS – Web Server
‰ WIN32 at last hidden with real OOP!
HTML Genreated HTML
‰ Visual Inheritance
Page
‰ Same controls used from all languages
Postback
‰ Consistent naming of properties, methods and behaviour!!!!
ASP.NET Page
‰ Forms + Listboxes, Buttons etc
HTML ‰ WIN32 specific
Component
Program Component
z Builds pretty much on intrinsic WIN32 functionality
z Makes it difficult to support.
SOAP Component
WebService DB

Component

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The .NET framework Evolution of COM

VB C++ C# JScript …

Common Language Specification COM

COM COM+
COM+

Visual Studio.NET
ASP.NET Windows Forms

ADO.NET and XML

Base Class Library MTS

MTS

Common Language Runtime

Windows COM+ Services

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