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NET Over view
BY:
Suresh Chandra Sahu
What is .NET ??????
Microsoft® .NET is a platform for building, running and experiencing the
next generation of distributed applications. It spans clients, servers and
services and consists of:
A programming model that enables developers to build XML Web services
and applications
A set of XML Web services, such as Microsoft .NET My Services (formerly
code-named 'Hailstorm'), that helps developers deliver a simple and
integrated user experience;
A set of servers, including Windows® 2000, SQL Server™ and BizTalk™
Server, that integrates, runs, operates and manages XML Web services
and applications
Abstraction of OS
Effort to run a program on many different H/W or OS
H/W level achieved through OS
The problem at Operating System level
“A tough computer problem can be solved by addition
of a layer of Abstraction”
Microsoft has done the same by layering CLR+System
calls Library on top of Operating System
.NET Framework
.NET Framework
Operating System Operating System
Hardware Hardware Hardware
.NET abstracts operating systems, which are abstracting
hardware.
This means that we can write software to target the CLR –
and that software can run on any operating system or
platform which implements the CLR.
.NET Framework
CLR (Common language Runtime)
.NET system Class Libraries
ASP+ (Web Forms)
ADO+
C# (C Sharp)
.NET Framework
CLR
Heart of the .NET Framework
Provides an environment in which programs can run
Support many programming languages in a common
manner
.NET applications are compiled to a common
language known as Microsoft Intermediate
Language, or "IL".
The CLR, then, handles compiling the IL to machine
language
IL contains methods, properties and fields related to
the components that are compiled
Compilation
Great Flexibility
Root of many .NET capability
MSIL – Microsoft Intermediate Language
All languages that work with .NET have compilers that
generate MSIL rather than machine code
MSIL and Metadata will be compiled into machine
code
Compilation ….
Code Compiler
IL Metadata
JIT Compiler
Execution
Compilation Example
A developer build an application in VB.NET
Compilation process generates IL code rather
than binary machine code
When user actually runs the application, the
CLR invokes a just-in time (JIT) compiler
This compiler runs on the user’s computer to
compile the IL to machine code
Metadata
Provides an exact description of the component
that were compiled to IL
COM inability to describe the component
Data is kept in XML so easily accessible and
understandable
Describe component’s interface and so can be
created and called by any language
Eliminates any reliance on the windows registry
Key design goals of
CLR
Simpler and Faster development
Automatic Handling of memory Management
and process communication
Tool support
Simple and safer deployment
Cross Language integration
Versioning and deployment support
Simple and Faster
development
Less code more reuse
Provides rich set of functionality
Programs in .NET use this functionality
and so less handwritting
Memory management
and Process
communication
Unnecessary to use malloc to set aside space for an array
in C++.
Need to just simple declaration statement
Handles references counting on instantiation
Automatic garbage collection for collecting objects no
longer referenced by the application
Tool support
Designed to support multiple languages
Furnishes a rich set of object models that are
useful to tools like designers, wizards ..
Third party tools can be easily incorporated
Cross language integration
Simple and safer
deployment
Deployment is very easy because:
Applications in .NET are composed of assemblies which contains IL and metadata as
previously stated
So both code and a complete descriptor of the code are in one package and self
describing.
So there is no need to register anything in the registry
Application produced in .NET framework can be easily copied and run using
XCOPY
Cross Language
Integration
Enable code written in one language to
integrate with code written in other language
Include cross language inheritance, exception
handling .
This can be done because there is a need to
get the reference of other component through
Metadata and metadata is language
independent
Versioning Services
CLR supports side by side execution of
multiple versions of the same
component.
If one program want to use the
component with particular version that it
can get it from the metadata information
Class Libraries
Class Libraries
Base classes: input/output , string
manipulation, security management, network
communications, thread management, text
management and other functions.
Data classes support persistent data
management and include SQL classes for
manipulating persistent data stores through
a standard SQL interface.
XML classes enable XML data manipulation
and XML searching and translations.
Class Libraries…
Web Forms include classes that enable you to rapidly
develop web GUI applications.
Windows Forms support a set of classes that allow you
to develop Windows GUI applications – facilitating
drag-and-drop GUI development and providing a
common, consistent development interface across all
languages supported by the .NET Framework
Win Forms
.NET provides a single, unified way to
create user interfaces outside of a
browser environment - Win Forms
Win Forms provide a language-neutral
way to create forms, add controls, and
respond to the user's actions
Win Forms are not based on ActiveX
They are instances of classes in the .NET
system class library.
Thank You.
