June 2001
Intermediate to advanced
620 pages
19h 29m
English
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The Microsoft .NET Framework
The Microsoft .NET Framework consists of three new components of interest to the ADO developer:
The Common Language Runtime (CLR) and its base class library (BCL)
C#, a new unified programming language
ASP.NET, a new framework for web application development
Each of these three components plays a key role in the .NET Framework.
The Common Language Runtime
The Common Language Runtime has two roles, one for the execution environment and one for the development environment.
For the execution environment, the CLR is the provider of .NET’s functionality. This functionality includes, but is not limited to: compilation of Intermediate Language (IL) to native code, handling of security, memory allocation, and thread and process management.
For the development environment, the CLR supports any language compiler that generates the IL code that it understands and the metadata it uses to make runtime decisions. In its first release, .NET will support VB.NET (the new C# language), managed C++, and JScript.NET. The CLR also allows the developer to write less code because so much is handled by the runtime, such as garbage collection and serialization of objects to and from XML.
C#: Unified Programming Language
In the current Microsoft development framework, C++, Visual Basic, and Java all have different APIs that achieve the same functionality. With the .NET Framework, Microsoft is attempting to combine the APIs into one class framework.
This gives developers more power than ...
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