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NET Overview
Introduction to .NET Web Services The .NET Framework Common Language Runtime Windows Forms Web Forms ADO.NET Languages

Introduction to .NET
What is .NET?

A vision of how information technology will evolve A platform that supports the vision A business model of software as a service

Introduction to .NET
What is .NET?

A vision
Web sites will be joined by Web services New smart devices will join the PC User interfaces will become more adaptable and customizable Enabled by Web standards

Introduction to .NET
What is .NET?
A platform
The .NET Framework Visual Studio.NET .NET Enterprise Servers

The focus of this course

Database, Messaging, Integration, Commerce, Proxy, Security, Mobility, Orchestration, Content Management Passport .NET My Services (Hailstorm)

.NET Building Block Services

Goal: make it incredibly easy to build powerful Web applications and Web services

Introduction to .NET
What is .NET? A business model
Software as a service Subscription-based services Application hosting, e.g. bCentral

Introduction to .NET
The .NET Platform
Clients Applications

Web Form Protocols: HTTP, HTML, XML, SOAP, UDDI

Web Service Tools: Visual Studio.NET, Notepad

.NET Framework Windows

Your Internal Web Service

.NET Foundation Web Services

Third-Party Web Services

.NET Enterprise Servers

Web Services
A programmable application component accessible via standard Web protocols The center of the .NET architecture Exposes functionality over the Web Built on existing and emerging standards
HTTP, XML, SOAP, UDDI, WSDL,

Web Services
Evolution of the Web

HTML, XML HTML HTML

HTML, XML

Generation 1 Static HTML

Generation 2 Web Applications

Generation 3 Web Services

The .NET Framework

What Is the .NET Framework? A set of technologies for developing and using components to create:
Web Forms Web Services Windows Applications

Supports the software lifecycle

Development Debugging Deployment Maintenance

The .NET Framework

The .NET Framework and Visual Studio.NET
VB C++ C# JScript
Visual Studio.NET

Common Language Specification ASP.NET: Web Services and Web Forms Windows Forms

ADO.NET: Data and XML .NET Framework Base Classes Common Language Runtime

The .NET Framework

.NET Framework Classes
System.Web
Services Description Discovery Protocols Caching Configuration UI HtmlControls WebControls

System.Windows.Forms
Form
MessageBox

Button
ListControl

System.Drawing
Security SessionState Drawing2D Imaging Printing Text

System.Data
OLEDB Design SQL SQLTypes XSLT XPath

System.Xml
Serialization

System
Collections Configuration Diagnostics Globalization IO Net Reflection Resources Security ServiceProcess Text Threading Runtime InteropServices Remoting Serialization

Common Language Runtime

Goals
Development services
Deep cross-language interoperability Increased productivity

Deployment services
Simple, reliable deployment Fewer versioning problems NO MORE DLL HELL

Run-time services
Performance Scalability Availability
Reliability Security Safety

Common Language Runtime

Compilation

Source Code

Assembly

Compiler
C++, C#, VB or any .NET language

csc.exe or vbc.exe

DLL or EXE

Common Language Runtime

Assemblies
Assembly
Logical unit of deployment Contains Manifest, Metadata, MSIL and resources

Manifest
Metadata about the components in an assembly (version, types, dependencies, etc.)

Type Metadata
Completely describes all types defined in an assembly: properties, methods, arguments, return values, attributes, base classes,

Common Language Runtime

Assemblies

Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL, IL)

All languages compile to IL (managed code) IL is always compiled to native code before being executed

Resources
E.g. .bmp, .jpg

Common Language Runtime

Execution Model
Source code
VB Compiler Assembly C# Compiler Assembly C++ Compiler Assembly

MSIL
Ngen

Common Language Runtime JIT Compiler

Native code

Managed Code CLR Services

Managed CLR Code

Managed Code

Unmanaged Code

Operating System Services

Common Language Runtime

Services
Code management Conversion of MSIL to native code Loading and execution of managed code Creation and management of metadata Verification of type safety Insertion and execution of security checks Memory management and isolation Handling exceptions across languages Interoperation between .NET Framework objects and COM objects and Win32 DLLs Automation of object layout for late binding Developer services (profiling, debugging, etc.)

Common Language Runtime

Multiple Language Support

Common Type System (CTS)

A superset of the data types used by most modern programming languages

Common Language Specification (CLS)

A subset of CTS that allows code written in different languages to interoperate

What languages?
Microsoft: C++, Visual Basic, C#, JScript Third-Party: Cobol, Eiffel, Smalltalk, Scheme, Oberon, Haskell, Java, Python, Perl,

Common Language Runtime

Applications
An application consists of one or more assemblies How does one assembly bind to another?
Based upon metadata and policy
Local (preferred) Assembly Global Cache

Multiple versions of an assembly may exist on the same machine

Easier software deployment, updates and removal Multiple versions of an assembly can even be used by the same application

Common Language Runtime

Security

Evidence-based security (authentication) Based on user identity and code identity Configurable policies Imperative and declarative interfaces

Windows Forms
Framework for building rich clients Built upon .NET Framework, languages Rapid Application Development (RAD) Visual inheritance Anchoring and docking Rich set of controls Extensible controls

Data-aware Easily hooked into Web Services ActiveX support Licensing support Printing support Advanced graphics

Web Forms
Built with ASP.NET
Logical evolution of ASP Similar development model: edit the page and go

Requires less code New programming model

Event-driven/server-side controls Rich controls (e.g. data grid, validation) Data binding Controls generate browser-specific code Simplified handling of page state

Web Forms
Allows separation of UI and business logic Uses .NET languages
Not just scripting

Easy to use components XCOPY/FTP deployment Simple configuration (XML-based)

Web Forms
Caching (pages, fragments, custom) Scalable session state management Tracing support ASP.NET is extensible
No ISAPI / ASP dichotomy

Automatic process rollover Forms-based authentication

ADO.NET
Similar to ADO, but better factored Language-neutral data access Supports two styles of data access
Disconnected Forward-only, read-only access

Supports data binding DataSet: a collection of tables Can view and process data relationally (tables) or hierarchically (XML)

Languages
C#
New language created for .NET Safe, productive evolution of C++ Key concepts:
Component-oriented Everything is an object Robust and durable code Preserving your investment

Submitted to ECMA for standardization Uses .NET Framework classes

Languages
Visual Basic.NET

Modernizes and simplifies Visual Basic

Inheritance Threading Exception handling

Support for late binding Uses .NET Framework classes

Conclusion
Internet Technologies Programming Languages and Paradigms Programming the Web .NET Overview

More Resources
HTTP
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/periodic/period96/protocol.h tm HTTP Essentials, Stephen Thomas, 2001, Wiley, ISBN 0471-39823-3

Cookies
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?URL=/library/pa rtbook/instantj/cookies.htm

MIME
http://www.ufaq.org/navcom/mime_tutorial.html http://www.irvine.com/~mime/

Networks
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/periodic/period99/ntp99b3.ht m

More Resources
XML
http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/default.asp http://www.w3.org/XML/ Essential XML, Don Box, Aaron Skonnard, John Lam, Addison Wesley, 2000, ISBN 0-201-70914-7

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