Module 1:

Overview of the Microsoft .NET

Platform

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Overview

• Introduction to the .NET Framework

• Overview of the .NET Framework
• Benefits of the .NET Framework
• The .NET Framework Components
• Languages in the .NET Framework

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Lesson 1:
Introduction to the .NET Framework

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Introduction to the .NET Framework

• The .NET Framework

• The .NET Enterprise Servers
• Visual Studio .NET

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Introduction to the .NET Framework 4

• What Is the .NET Framework 4?

• The Purpose of Visual C#
• What Is an Assembly?
• How the Common Language Runtime Loads, Compiles
and Runs Assemblies
• What Tools Does the .NET Framework Provide?

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Overview of the .NET Framework

.NET .NET .NET .NET

.NET
Framework 1.1 Framework 2.0 Framework 3.0 Framework 3.5
Framework 4
SP1 SP2 SP1 SP1

Version 4
Managed Version 3.5 new
libraries SP1 new features
Managed Managed features
(adding
libraries libraries
WPF, WCF, Version 3.5
WF) SP1
features
Managed
libraries
Managed
libraries
CLR 1.1 CLR 2.0 CLR 2.0
CLR 2.0
CLR 4

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Overview of the .NET Framework (cont.)

Visual
Basic C++ C# Perl F# …

XML Web Services User Interface

ASP.NET

ADO.NET: Data and XML

.NET Framework Class Library

Common Language Runtime

COM+
Message
Queuing
(Transactions, Partitions, IIS WMI
Object Pooling)

Win32/64

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Benefits of the .NET Framework

• Based on Web standards and practices

• Designed using unified application models
• Easy for developers to use
• Extensible classes

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What Is the .NET Framework 4?

Common Language Runtime

Class Library

Development Frameworks

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Lesson 2:
The .NET Framework Components

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The .NET Framework Components

• Common Language Runtime

• .NET Framework Class Library
• ADO.NET: Data and XML
• Web Forms and XML Web Services
• User Interface for Windows

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Common Language Runtime

Base Class Library Support

Thread Support COM Marshaler

Type Checker Exception Manager

Security Engine Debug Engine

MSIL to Native Code Garbage

Compilers Manager Collector

Class Loader
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.NET Framework Class Library

System System.Security System.Runtime.InteropServices

System.Net System.Text System.Globalization

System.Reflection System.Threading System.Configuration

System.IO System.Diagnostics System.Collections

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ADO.NET: Data and XML

ADO.NET: Data and XML

System.Data System.XML

Data Set Data Row

System.Xml.Schema

Data Table Data View

System.Xml.Serialization

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Web Forms and XML Web Services

ASP.NET
System.Web
Services UI

Description
HTML Controls
Discovery
Protocols Web Controls

Caching Security

Configuration SessionState

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User Interface for Windows

System.Windows.Forms

System.Drawing

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What Tools Does the .NET Framework Provide?

Caspol.exe Makecert.exe

Ngen.exe
Gacutil.exe

Ildasm.exe Sn.exe
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Lesson 3:
Languages in the .NET Framework

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Languages in the .NET Framework

• C# - Designed for .NET

– New component-oriented language

• Managed Extensions to C++

– Enhanced to provide more power and control

• Visual Studio .NET

– New version of Visual Basic with substantial language
innovations

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Languages in the .NET Framework
(continued)
• F#
– A programming language that provides support for functional
programming in addition to traditional object-oriented and
imperative (procedural) programming

• Third-party Languages

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The Purpose of Visual C#

C#

C# is the language of choice for many developers who build .NET

Framework applications

C# uses a very similar syntax to C, C++, and Java

C# has been standardized and is described by the ECMA-334 C#

Language Specification

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Lesson 4:
Creating Projects Within Visual Studio 2010

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Creating Projects Within Visual Studio 2010

• Key Features of Visual Studio

• Templates in Visual Studio 2010
• The Structure of Visual Studio Projects and Solutions
• Creating a .NET Framework Application
• Building and Running a .NET Framework Application
• Demonstration: Disassembling a .NET Framework
Assembly

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Key Features of Visual Studio 2010

Visual Studio 2010:

Intuitive IDE that enables developers to quickly build applications in

their chosen programming language

Visual Studio 2010 features:

Rapid application development

Server and data access
Debugging features
Error handling
Help and documentation

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Templates in Visual Studio 2010
Console Application

WPF Application

Class Library

Windows Forms Application

ASP.NET Web Application

ASP.NET MVC 2 Application

Silverlight Application

WCF Service Application

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 The Structure of Visual Studio Projects and
Solutions
Visual Studio Solution

Visual Studio solutions are wrappers for .NET projects

Visual Studio solutions can contain multiple .NET projects
Visual Studio solutions can contain different types of .NET projects

ASP.NET project WPF project

.aspx .csproj .xaml .csproj
.aspx.cs .config .xaml.cs .config

Console project

.cs .csproj
.config
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Creating a .NET Framework Application

1 Open Visual Studio 2010

2 On the File menu, click New, and then click Project

3 In the New Project dialog box, specify the following, and

then click OK:
- Project template
- Project name
- Project save path

Programmer productivity features include:

IntelliSense

Code snippets
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Building and Running a .NET Framework
Application

Visual Studio

1 In Visual Studio 2010, on the Build menu, click Build Solution

2 On the Debug menu, click Start Debugging

Command line

csc.exe /t:exe /out:" C:\Users\Student\Documents\Visual Studio

2010\MyProject\myApplication.exe"
"C:\Users\Student\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\MyProject\*.cs"

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Demonstration: Disassembling a .NET Framework
Assembly

In this demonstration, we will:

• Run an existing .NET Framework application
• Open Ildasm
• Disassemble an existing .NET Framework assembly
• Examine the disassembled .NET Framework assembly

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Review

• Introduction to the .NET

Framework
• Overview of the .NET
Framework
• Benefits of the .NET
Framework
• The .NET Framework
Components
• Languages in the .NET
Framework

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Questions

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