June 2001
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
8h 32m
English
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.NET Framework Design Goals
Inherent within the Microsoft .NET Framework are many design goals that are practical yet extremely ambitious. In this section, we discuss the main design goals of the Microsoft .NET Framework, including better support for components, language integration, application interoperation across cyberspace, simple development and deployment, better reliability, and greater security.
Component Infrastructure
Prior to the existence of COM technology, Microsoft developers had no simple way to integrate binary libraries without referring to or altering their source code. With the advent of COM, programmers were able to integrate binary components into their applications, similar to the way we plug-and-play hardware components into our desktop PCs. Although COM was great, the grungy details of COM gave developers and administrators many headaches.
While COM permits you to integrate binary components developed using any language, it does require you to obey the COM identity, lifetime, and binary layout rules. You must also write the plumbing code that is required to create a COM component, such as DllGetClassObject, CoRegisterClassObject, and others.
Realizing that all of these requirements result in frequent rewrites of similar code, .NET sets out to remove all of them. In the .NET world, all classes are ready to be reused at the binary level. You don’t have to write extra plumbing code to support componentization in the .NET Framework. You simply write a .NET class, ...
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