Student's Essential Guide to .NET

Students\' Essential Guide to .NET......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 18
Objective......Page 20
The common structure......Page 21
Welcome to the world of .NET......Page 22
What is .NET?......Page 24
Does the .NET Framework kill the concepts of componentware?......Page 26
What is .NET?......Page 27
The web services......Page 29
The .NET Framework......Page 31
.NET componentware......Page 32
My Services......Page 34
Enterprise services and servers......Page 35
Introduction......Page 38
Hardware model......Page 39
Source code portability......Page 41
Programmatic access to operating system services......Page 42
The traditional software development model......Page 43
Virtual machines......Page 44
The unambiguous general environment......Page 45
The design of the .NET Framework VM......Page 47
What is programming language syntax?......Page 50
What does programming language semantics mean?......Page 51
Data types......Page 53
The Common Type System......Page 55
Value types in the CTS......Page 56
Reference types in the CTS......Page 58
Converting value types to reference types......Page 59
Using the CLR environment......Page 61
MSIL Microsoft Intermediate Language......Page 63
Metadata......Page 64
Managed code organisation into assemblies......Page 65
The assembly structure......Page 66
How does the CLR manage execution?......Page 67
Creating the JIT compilation......Page 68
Objective......Page 72
Other topics......Page 73
Introduction......Page 74
What about the other subordinate namespaces?......Page 78
The traditional memory map for an application......Page 79
Automatic garbage collection......Page 82
A strategy to avoid any asynchronous object destruction problems......Page 84
.NET process management......Page 85
File IO services......Page 87
Objective......Page 92
Introduction......Page 93
The C# language......Page 94
The C# data types......Page 98
Classes......Page 99
Structures......Page 100
Delegates......Page 101
Arrays......Page 103
The C# language control structures......Page 105
TheVB.NET language......Page 107
The VB.NET data types......Page 111
Classes in VB.NET......Page 112
Structures in VB.NET......Page 113
Delegates......Page 114
Arrays......Page 115
The VB.NET language control structures......Page 116
Namespaces......Page 119
Structured exception handling......Page 120
Objective......Page 126
Introduction......Page 127
Extract from a simple VB.NET form with a button and textbox......Page 128
Parent–child architecture......Page 132
Window form controls......Page 133
The examples......Page 135
Objective......Page 170
Introduction......Page 171
Setting up Visual Studio .NET......Page 172
The examples......Page 173
Introduction......Page 206
Using an existing system DLL......Page 208
Exported functions from \'cards.dll\'......Page 209
Creating the user control......Page 212
The component implementation......Page 214
Interoperability with COM objects......Page 219
The COM example using the Media Player......Page 223
Other interoperability issues......Page 226
Objective......Page 228
How is this accomplished?......Page 229
XML documents......Page 230
Why is XML so important to us?......Page 232
Namespaces......Page 236
The DOM......Page 239
Document Type Definitions......Page 244
XML schemas......Page 245
XML in the development world of Visual Studio .NET......Page 247
XML serialisation......Page 252
Benefits of XML serialisation......Page 258
SOAP-based serialisation......Page 259
Introduction......Page 262
The multi-tiered design model......Page 263
A background review of RDMS and SQL......Page 264
A simple example......Page 267
Reading and writing XML Files......Page 271
Extending the Previous Example......Page 272
Data providers–how we link to different RDMSs......Page 273
Datasets......Page 275
Translating datasets to XML......Page 277
Dataset and XML synchronisation......Page 280
Introduction......Page 282
Sockets......Page 283
The mechanisms to establishing a simple socket connection......Page 284
Web pages......Page 292
Web applications and ASP.NET......Page 298
The typical web application architecture......Page 302
The example......Page 303
Objective......Page 318
Introduction......Page 319
Is it really that simple?......Page 323
Early binding......Page 324
Late binding......Page 325
Example......Page 332
Self-description for web services......Page 333
Using VS.NET to create the proxy......Page 335
Windows client design......Page 338
Web client design......Page 339
Objective......Page 344
Introduction......Page 345
The problem......Page 346
Appendix A......Page 368
Appendix B......Page 378
Index......Page 380