Student's Essential Guide To . NET

The Student's Essential Guide to .NET provides a clear and simple overview of Microsoft's .NET technologies. It is aimed at second and third year undergraduate students and postgraduate students on Computing or Computer Science courses who are required to look at a modern operating system, (Microsoft Windows 9x, Nt 2000 or XP) and to design and code simple or even not so simple examples. The approach is based upon the student's learning the technology of .NET through examples using the supported languages C#, VB and C++. The examples are based on fun, familiar games, and students are encouraged to review reference material to refine their skills on key aspects of the architecture. Review questions and worked examples enhance the learning process and the material is supported by the author's website, which contains extensive ancillary material. * Student-focused treatment with many examples and exercises, together with solutions* Integrates the use of .NET with the supported languages C#, VB and C++* Authors supporting website contains solutions, source code and other extras 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 The Student's Essential Guide to .NET provides a clear and simple overview of Microsoft's .NET technologies. It is aimed at second and third year undergraduate students and postgraduate students on Computing or Computer Science courses who are required to look at a modern operating system, (Microsoft Windows 9x, Nt 2000 or XP) and to design and code simple or even not so simple examples. The approach is based upon the student's learning the technology of .NET through examples using the supported languages C#, VB and C++. The examples are based on fun, familiar games, and students are encouraged to review reference material to refine their skills on key aspects of the architecture. Review questions and worked examples enhance the learning process and the material is supported by the author's website, which contains extensive ancillary material.

* Student-focused treatment with many examples and exercises, together with solutions
* Integrates the use of .NET with the supported languages C#, VB and C++
* Authors supporting website contains solutions, source code and other extras Teach your CS students all they need to know about the emerging .NET technology with the first available comprehensive textbook on the subject