.NET IN ONE DAY

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COURSE OUTLINE

1. Overview

• .NET in 30 minutes: an overview of the technology and its contributions.

2. The challenges: if .NET is the answer, what are the questions?

• Background: The Internet and the evolution of software development. E-commerce and its demands. Requirements of mission-critical applications. Exposing the business model.

• Object Technology: contribution and challenges. O-O languages, GUI tools, databases.

• Component-based development: COM, CORBA, Enterprise Java Beans. The notion of Interface Description Language. Contributions and limitations of pre-.NET component approaches.

• Programming for the Web and e-commerce: CGI scripts, Active Server Pages, Java Server pages. Advantages and drawbacks.

• The state of multi-language interoperability. Approaches to portable application development. Graphics, database issues.

3 .NET: The Vision and the Platform

• The .NET architecture: runtime, framework, platform, web services.

• The .NET runtime: architecture and goals. Comparison with the Java Virtual Machine.

• MSIL: the intermediate language. Security issues and the concept of verifiability. How critical is it to produce verifiable code?

• The notion of managed code. Language issues; managed and unmanaged versions of C++ under .NET.

• Organizing and extending your components: assemblies and metadata. An application: equipping components with contracts.

4 The .NET object model and type system

• Classes, methods, fields, properties and events

• .NET types: reference and value types, array types, arrays

• Inheritance concepts: multiple interface inheritance, novariance

• Encapsulating behavior: delegates

• C#: a language for programming .NET

• C# versus Java

• .NET mechanisms and the dominant languages: commonalities and mismatches. How easy is it to map an existing language into the .NET model?

5. Language interoperability

• Available languages and degree of interoperability. Cross-language inheritance; cross-language debugging.

• The Common Language System: both a consumer and an extender be. Levels of compliance.

• Advantages and challenges of CLS compliance

• Examples: combining components from various languages

• From a common runtime to a common development environment: Visual Studio.NET and the concept of multi-language, pluggable environment. GUI, browsing, debugging

6. Frameworks and applications

• Web Forms and Win Forms

• Remoting and threading capabilities

• ASP.NET: Active Server Pages +. Building advanced Web sites for e-commerce.

• Web services, SOAP and Building Block Services

• Database access and manipulation: ADO.NET

7. Summary and perspective

• .NET and the competition

• The significance of .NET

• Future developments

• Corporate strategies: getting ready for .NET