Windows Systems Programming: Spring 2004

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Introduction

Systems Programming in Windows (.NET)

• .NET Framework
  • Common Language RunTime (CLR)
    • Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL)
    • Garbage Collection
    • Metadata
    • assemblies
    • Visual Basic.NET/C#/C++/JScript.NET
  • Framework class library
    • ASP.NET (Web accessible)
    • ADO.NET (DataBase)
    • Windows Forms
    • Enterprise Services (transactions/pooling)
• Visual Studio .NET
• .NET  myServices
• .NET Servers

Distributed Application Programming

• Web Services
  • HTML/HTTP (ASP.NET)
  • COM/CORBA (distributed object frameworks)
  • Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
  • Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
  • Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ)
  • Universal Description Discovery and Integration (UDDI)
• B2B and B2C applications
  • Browser based (thin client)
  • client/server
  • peer to peer

.NET Programming Languages

• VB.NET is not the old visual basic
  • inheritance
  • exception handling
  • multi-threading
  • interfaces
  • properties and events
  • attributes
  • garbage collection

• C# Programming Language is not C++
  • C++ Syntax
  • single inheritance
  • interface
  • garbage collection but can write unsafe code that addresses memory directly
• Managed C++
• jScript.NET

.NET Class Library

• System: Top namespace, core data types (integers, strings, etc)

• System.Web:  Asp.NET uses System.Web.UI to build browser accessible applications and System.Web.Services to build web services

• System.Data:  ADO.NET - connect and access DBMS

• System.Windows.Forms: used to build GUIs

• System.EnterpriseServices: distributed transactions

• System.XML:  access to DOM and schemas

Supports object serialization

.NET MyServices

• .NET Alerts

• .NET Calendar

• .Net Contacts

• .Net Inbox

• .Net Documents: internet accessible storage

• .NET Wallet: credit card, shipping addresses

• .NET Lists: todo, shopping

• .NET Profile

• .NET Presence: where a user is or will be and how to get in touch

Issue: how to make secure

.NET Enterprise Servers

• BizTalk (workflow)

• Application Center

• Commerce Server

• Host Integration Server (HIS)

• SQL

• Exchange (e-mail)

• Mobile Information

• Internet Security and Accelerator (ISA)

A first program

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