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1. Introduction to .Net Framework NithyaVidhyaarthi

2. Before .NET Windows GUI development: Win32 API, MFC, Visual Basic, COM Web development: ASP Java – “Write once, run anywhere.” Embrace and extend: Visual J++

3. Life As a C/Win32 API Programmer Traditional software development for the Windows. C developers are forced to contend with complex memory management and pointer arithmetic. It lacks the benefits provided by the object-oriented approach When you combine the thousands of global functions and data types defined by the Win32 API to an already formidable language, it is little wonder that there are so many buggy applications floating around today.

5. Programmers benefit from the famed “pillars of OOP” (encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism).

6. Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) provides a set of C++ classes that facilitate the construction of Win32 applications.

7. It wraps a “sane subset” of the raw Win32 API behind a number of classes, magic macros, and numerous code-generation tools (wizards).

9. Life As a Java/J2EE Programmer Object oriented with syntactic roots in C++. Java cleans up many unsavory syntactical aspects of C++. Java provides programmers with a large number of predefined “packages” that contain various type definitions. Limited ability to access non-Java APIs. Little support for truecross-language integration. Not appropriate for many graphically or numerically intensive applications. A better approach for such programs would be to use a language such as C++ where appropriate.

10. Life As a COM Programmer Microsoft’s previous application development framework. reusable binary code. C++ programmers can build COM classes that can be used by VB6. Delphi programmers can use COM classes built using C. COM’s language independence is limited. COM has no support for classical inheritance). COM is extremely complex under the hood. The Active Template Library (ATL) provides a set of C++ classes, templates, and macros to ease the creation of COM types.

12. COM-based Windows Distributed interNet Applications Architecture (DNA) is quite complex.

14. .Net, the Rescuer OOP JVM GUI .NET Web component-based design n-tier design

15. .Net, the Rescuer

16. .Net provides Integrated environment Internet, Desktop , Mobile devices consistent object-oriented To provide a portable environment A managed environment

17. What Is .NET .NET is a framework New programming methodology .NET is platform independent / cross platform .NET is language-insensitive

18. .NET is cross-platform APP.exe ? Win32 (XP,2K,98) Win64 WinCE

19. .NET Application .NET Framework Narrow view of .Net applications Operating System + Hardware

20. .Net Framework

21. .Net Architecture .NET architecture is: multi-language cross-platform based on the CLR, FCL, and JIT technology .NET components are packaged as assemblies

22. .Net Architecture

23. .Net Technical Architecture VB C++ C# Visual Studio.NET JScript … Common Language Specification WindowsForms ASP.NET: Web Services and Web Forms WindowsForms ADO.NET: Data and XML Base Class Library Common Language Runtime

24. Common Language Runtime A common runtime for all .NET languages Common type system Common metadata Intermediate Language (IL) to native code compilers Memory allocation and garbage collection Code execution and security Over 15 languages supported today C#, VB, Jscript, Visual C++ from Microsoft Perl, Python, Smalltalk, Cobol, Haskell, Mercury, Eiffel, Oberon, Oz, Pascal, APL, CAML, Scheme, etc. Rational is working on Java compiler for CLR

25. The CLR Architecture Base Class Library Support Thread Support COM Marshaler Type Checker Exception Manager Security Engine Debug Engine MSIL to Native Compilers (JIT) Code Manager Garbage Collector (GC) Class Loader

26. CLR Execution Model (Narrow) Code in VB.NET Code in C# Code in another .NET Language VB.NET compiler C# compiler Appropriate Compiler IL(Intermediate Language) code CLR just-in-time execution

27. CLR Execution Model Source code VB C++ C# Unmanaged Component Compiler Compiler Compiler Managed code Assembly IL Code Assembly IL Code Assembly IL Code Common Language Runtime JIT Compiler Native Code Operating System Services

28. How CLR works?

29. CLR based execution JIT Compiler APP.exe OS Process CLR other FCL components Core FCL obj code Underlying OS and HW

30. Common Language Runtime Execution Engine Compiles Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL) into native code Handles garbage collection Handles exceptions Enforces code access security Handles verification Managed v. Unmanaged

32. portability:

34. Advantages of CLR Support for developer services (debugging) Interoperation between managed code and unmanaged code (COM, DLLs). Managed code environment Improved memory handling Improved “garbage collection”

36. JIT allows the IL code to be hardware independent.

37. CLR also allows for enforcement of code access security.

38. Verification of type safety.

40. CLI

42. Four components:

43. Common Type System (CTS)

44. Meta-data in a language agnostic fashion.

45. Common Language Specification – behaviors that all languages need to follow.

47. Common Type System (CTS)

48. CTS Data Types

49. Common Data Types CLR provides a set of primitive types that all languages must support. The data types include: Integer—three types 16/32/64 bits Float—two types: 32/64 bits Boolean and Character Date/time and Time span The primitive types can be collected into Arrays Structures Combination of the two

50. Common Language Specification (CLS) Not all languages support all CTS types and features C# is case sensitive, VB.NET is not C# supports pointer types (in unsafe mode), VB.NET does not C# supports operator overloading, VB.NET does not CLS was drafted to promote language interoperability vast majority of classes within FCL are CLS-compliant

51. Comparison to Java Hello.java Hello.class JVM compile execute Source code Byte code Hello.vb Hello.exe CLR compile execute Source code CIL

52. Base Class Library @ FCL

53. Base Class Library Similar to Java’s System namespace. Used by all .NET applications Has classes for IO, threading, database, text, graphics, console, sockets/web/mail, security, cryptography, COM, run-time type discovery/invocation, assembly generation

54. Framework Class Library @ BCL Single consistent set of object oriented class libraries to enable building distributed web applications (Unified Classes) Built using classes arranged across logical hierarchical namespaces Work with all CLR languages No more “VBRun” or “MFC” divide

55. Example

57. CLR accepts the IL code and recompiles it to machine code. The recompilation is just-in-time (JIT) meaning it is done as soon as a function or subroutine is called.

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