The Microsoft .

NET Framework

Presented by

Joseph J. Sarna Jr., MCSD JJS Systems, LLC

Agenda

Introduction to .NET and Web Services The .NET Framework Common Language Runtime .NET Framework Services Common Language Specification .NET Development Tools

How Did We Get to .NET? The Evolution of Web Applications

First generation of Web applications -non-interactive content (HTML static content)

Second generation of Web applications - scalable back-end and a richer User Interface. (DCOM, ASP, CGI, Cold Fusion, dynamic content) Third generation of Web applications (.NET) - using Web protocols and XML to allow better integration between services on the Web

What is .NET?

.NET is Microsofts entry into the Web services arena XML based

Why the Move to .NET?

DCOM works fine on an Intranet, however:

DCOM does not go through firewalls Requires too many open TCP/IP ports Requires Stateful connections Platform dependent

Portals provide services however:

Non-standard interfaces Hard to integrate with other applications Not designed to use outside the scope of the portal

What Is A Web Service?

A programmable application, accessible as a component via standard Web protocols Defined in terms of the required formats and ordering of messages You can ask a site for a description of the Web Services it offers Web Service consumers can be any device - send and receive messages using XML All built using open Internet protocols

XML Is The Core

Simple, open, broadly adopted

Continues the Webs open standards

Enables powerful distributed apps

A universal data exchange format

XML Format

XML is a tagged mark-up representation of data XML consists of a header section, a schema section, and a data section The header section defines the XML form itself The schema section defines the format of the data contained in the XML document The data section provides the mapped data

C:\SicCodes.XML

SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol

Internet becomes integration fabric Broad industry support

IBM, Iona, Ariba, Compaq, Lotus, Commerce-One, HP, SAP, others http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/

Submitted to W3C:

XML-based integration for web services

Benefits of Web Services

Leverages exiting infrastructure Allows the choice to buy or build the functionality Use of tested standard modules for repeatability Minimizes development time and cost Allows integration between applications, platforms, businesses

Agenda

Introduction to .NET and Web Services The .NET Framework Common Language Runtime .NET Framework Services Common Language Specification .NET Development Tools

What Is the .NET Framework?

A collection of technologies that

Unite isolated Web applications Make information available anytime, anywhere Simplify development and deployment
Web Services ADO.NET Datasets and XML support throughout the platform Rich tools, runtime services and XCOPY Deployment

How does .NET achieve the above?

.NET Framework, Languages, Tools

VB C++ C# JScript

Common Language Specification Visual Studio.NET Web Services User Interface

Data and XML Base Class Library Common Language Runtime

Agenda

Introduction to .NET and Web Services The .NET Framework Common Language Runtime .NET Framework Services Common Language Specification .NET Development Tools

Common Language Runtime

VB C++ C# JScript

Common Language Specification Visual Studio.NET Web Services User Interface

Data and XML Base Class Library Common Language Runtime

The .NET Common Language Runtime

Manages running code

Threading Memory management

Inheritance, Errors, Debugging Code access security Role-based security Integrated with underlying OS

Multi-language

Fine-grained evidence-based security

No-touch deployment

Common Language Runtime

Base Class Library Support Thread Support Type Checker Security Engine IL to Native Compilers Code Manager Class Loader COM Marshaler Exception Manager Debug Engine Garbage Collector

Common Language Runtime Design Goals

Dramatically simplify application development Provide a robust and secure execution environment Support multiple programming languages Simplify deployment and management

Agenda

Introduction to .NET and Web Services The .NET Framework Common Language Runtime .NET Framework Services Common Language Specification .NET Development Tools

.NET Framework Services

VB C++ C# JScript

Common Language Specification Visual Studio.NET Web Services User Interface

Data and XML Base Class Library Common Language Runtime

.NET Framework Services

ASP.NET

Logical evolution of ASP (compiled)

Manageable code (non spaghetti)

Web forms

Windows forms

Framework for building rich clients

New objects (e.g., DataSets)

ADO.NET, evolution of ADO

XML Support Throughout

Some .NET Base Class Libraries

System.Web
Services Description Discovery Protocols Caching Configuration Security SessionState Imaging UI HtmlControls WebControls Design

System.WinForms
ComponentModel

System.Drawing
Drawing2D Printing Text

System.Data
ADO 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

Agenda

Introduction to .NET and Web Services The .NET Framework Common Language Runtime .NET Framework Services Common Language Specification .NET Development Tools

Common Language Specification

VB C++ C# JScript

Common Language Specification Visual Studio.NET Web Services User Interface

Data and XML Base Class Library Common Language Runtime

Common Language Specification

What about types?

Common type system (CTS)

Common Language Specification (CLS)

Other languages and compilers

.NET Languages

The .NET Platform is Language Neutral

All .NET languages perform the same You can leverage your existing skills
Consumer: Can use the .NET Framework Extender: Can extend the .NET Framework VB, C++, C#, JScript APL, COBOL, Pascal, Eiffel, Haskell, ML, Oberon, Perl, Python, Scheme, Smalltalk

Common Language Specification

Microsoft provides:

Third-parties are building

.NET Languages Available (or soon to be)

Visual Basic C# Jscript C++ Perl Python COBOL Haskell ML Ada

Pascal C SmallTalk Oberon Scheme Mercury APL Eiffel Oz Objective Caml

Agenda

Introduction to .NET and Web Services The .NET Framework Common Language Runtime .NET Framework Services Common Language Specification .NET Development Tools

.NET Development Tools

VB C++ C# JScript

Common Language Specification Visual Studio.NET Web Services User Interface

Data and XML Base Class Library Common Language Runtime

Visual Studio .NET

Planning Manage and Collaborate

Analysis
Design Development Testing Deployment .NET Platform

Summary

We covered:

Introduction to .NET and Web Services The .NET Framework Common Language Runtime .NET Framework Services Common Language Specification .NET Development Tools

Resources for .NET

http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/ - W3C standards for SOAP implementation http://www.uddi.org UDDI standards for web services implementation http://www.microsoft.com/net - Microsoft .NET home http://msdn.microsoft.com/net - Microsoft .NET developers home http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml - Microsoft XML developers home http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices Microsoft Web Services developers home http://www.gotdotnet.com Developers .NET resource