NET Framework interview questions and interviewer's notes

.NET framework overview

1. Has own class libraries. System is the main namespace and all other namespaces
are subsets of this.
2. It has CLR(Common language runtime, Common type system, common language
specification)
3. All the types are part of CTS and Object is the base class for all the types.
4. If a language said to be .net complaint, it should be compatible with CTS and
CLS.
5. All the code compiled into an intermediate language by the .Net language
compiler, which is nothing but an assembly.
6. During runtime, JIT of CLR picks the IL code and converts into PE machine code
and from there it processes the request.
7. CTS, CLS, CLR
8. Garbage Collection
9. Dispose, finalize, suppress finalize, Idispose interface
10. Assemblies, Namespace: Assembly is a collection of class/namespaces. An
assembly contains Manifest, Metadata, Resource files, IL code
11. Com interoperability, adding references, web references
12. Database connectivity and providers
13. Application Domain

VB.Net

1. Class modifiers: public, private, friend, protected, protected friend, mustinherit,

NotInheritable
2. Method modifiers: public, private
3. Overridable
4. Shadows
5. Overloadable
6. Overrides
7. Overloads
8. Set/Get Property
9. IIF
10. Inheritance
11. Polymorphism
12. Delegates
13. Events
14. Reflection
15. Boxing
16. UnBoxing
17. Casting
ASP.Net

1. Web Controls: Data grid (templates, sorting, paging, bound columns, unbound
columns, data binding), Data list, repeater controls
2. HTML Controls
3. Code behind pages, system.web.ui.page base class
4. Web.config: App settings, identity (impersonate), authentication (windows, forms,
anonymous, passport), authorization
5. Databind.eval
6. Trace, Debug
7. Output cache
8. Session management
9. Application, Session
10. Global.asax httpapplication
11. User controls, custom controls, custom rendered controls (postback event,
postdatachanged event) usercontrol is the base class
12. Directives

ADO.Net

1. Command object (ExecuteNonquery, ExecuteReader, ExecuteXMLReader,

ExecuteScalar)
2. DataAdapter object (Fill)
3. Dataset (collection of tables)
4. CommandBuiler object
5. Transaction Object
6. Isolation levels