.net Application Development

1 What is .NET? 1
1.1 The .NET framework 2
1.2 The benefits of using .NET 10
1.3 Differences to Java 12
1.4 Further literature 13

2. The language C# 15
2.1 Overview 15
2.2 Symbols 20
2.3 Types 22
2.3.1 Simple types
2.3.2 Enumerations
2.3.3 Arrays
2.3.4 Strings
2.3.5 Structs
2.3.6 Classes
2.3.7 Object
2.3.8 Boxing and unboxing
2.4 Expressions 34
2.5 Declarations 38
2.6 Statements 42
2.6.1 Empty statements
2.6.2 Assignments
2.6.3 Method calls
2.6.4 If statements
2.6.5 Switch statements
2.6.6 While statements
2.6.7 Do-while statements
2.6.8 For statements
2.6.9 Foreach statements
2.6.10 Break and continue statements
2.6.11 Goto statements
2.6.12 Return statements
2.7 Input and output 49
2.7.1 Output to the screen
2.7.2 Output to a file
2.7.3 Input from the keyboard
2.7.4 Input from a file
2.7.5 Reading command line arguments
2.8 Classes and structs 55
2.8.1 Visibility attributes
2.8.2 Fields
2.8.3 Methods
2.8.4 Constructors
2.8.5 Destructors
2.8.6 Properties
2.8.7 Indexers
2.8.8 Operators
2.8.9 Nested types
2.8.10 Differences to Java and C++
2.9 Inheritance 75
2.9.1 Declaration of subclasses
2.9.2 Compatibility between classes
2.9.3 Overriding and hiding of members
2.9.4 Dynamic binding
2.9.5 Constructors in superclasses and subclasses
2.9.6 Abstract classes
2.9.7 Sealed classes
2.9.8 The class Object
2.10 Interfaces 90
2.11 Delegates and events 95
2.12 Exceptions 98
2.13 Namespaces and assemblies 104
2.14 Attributes 109
2.15 Automatically generated comments 115

3 The .NET Architecture 119
3.1 Why a virtual machine 120
3.2 The Common Type System 126
3.2.1 The type hierarchy
3.2.2 Predefined typed
3.2.3 Value types
3.2.4 Reference types
3.2.5 From value types to reference types and back
3.3 The Common Language Specification 142
3.3.1 The attribute CLSCompliant
3.4 The Common Intermediate Language 144
3.5 Metadata 146
3.5.1 Attributes
3.6 Assemblies and modules 150
3.6.1 Encapsulation
3.6.2 Versioning
3.6.3 Side by side execution and the end of DLL hell
3.7 The Virtual Execution System 158
3.7.1 Loading and executing managed code
3.7.2 Verification of CIL code
3.7.3 Translation from CIL code to machine code
3.7.4 Code management
3.8 Security 172
3.8.1 Code-based security
3.8.2 Role-based security

4 The .NET class library 185
4.1 Collections 186
4.1.1 Ienumerable
4.1.2 Icollection
4.1.3 Ilist
4.1.4 Array
4.1.5 ArrayList
4.1.6 BitArray
4.1.7 Queue
4.1.8 Stack
4.1.9 Idictionary
4.1.10 Hashtable
4.1.11 SortedList
4.2 Input and Output 200
4.2.1 Streams
4.2.2 Files and directories
4.2.3 Isolated memory
4.3 Threading 211
4.3.1 Creating a thread
4.3.2 State of a thread
4.3.3 Background threads
4.3.4 Thread pools
4.3.5 Synchronisation
4.4 Network communication 224
4.4.1 Addressing
4.4.2 Sockets
4.4.3 NetworkStream
4.4.4 WebRequest and WebResponse
4.5 Reflection 232
4.5.1 System.Reflection.Assembly
4.5.2 System.Type
4.5.3 Dynamic object creation
5.4.4 Dynamic invocation of methods
5.4.5 Reflection.Emit
4.6 Graphical user interfaces with Windows Forms 240
4.6.1 Controls
4.6.2 Forms
4.6.3 Event-driven programming model
4.6.4 User defined controls
4.7 XML 251
4.7.1 XML architecture
4.7.2 Sequential reading with XmlReader
4.7.3 Xpath
4.7.4 XSL transformations

5 ADO.NET 265
5.1 Overview 265
5.2 Connection-based and disconnected access 268
5.3 Connection-based access 270
5.3.1 Connections
5.3.2 Transactions, isolation levels and deadlocks
5.3.3 SQL command objects
5.3.4 DataReader
5.4 Disconnected access with DataSet 291
5.4.1 Creating and using DataSets
5.4.2 Database access with a DataAdapter
5.5 Integration with XML 310
5.5.1 DataSets and XML types
5.5.2 DataSets and XML schemata

6 ASP.NET 321
6.1 Creating dynamic Web pages 322
6.2 Simple Web forms 330
6.3 Event handling in ASP.NET 337
6.4 Web controls 343
6.4.1 Control
6.4.2 WebControl
6.4.3 Button
6.4.5 TextBox
6.4.6 Label
6.4.7 CheckBox
6.4.8 RadioButton
6.4.9 ListBox
6.4.10 DropDownList
6.4.11 DataGrid
6.4.12 Calendar
6.5 Validation of user input 373
6.5.1 BaseValidator
6.5.2 RequiredFieldValidator
6.5.3 RangeValidator
6.5.4 CompareValidator
6.5.5 CustomValidator
6.5.6 Example
6.6 User-defined Web controls 379
6.6.1 User controls
6.6.2 Custom controls
6.7 State management 389
6.7.1 Class Page
6.7.2 Page state
6.7.3 Session state
6.7.4 Application state
6.8 ASP.NET application layer (global.asax) 397
6.9 Configuration 400
6.9.1 Definition of configuration sections
6.9.2 Data in configuration sections
6.9.3 Overview of configuration sections for ASP.NET
6.10 Web page programming with Visual Studio .NET 408

7 Web Services 413
7.1 Overview 413
7.2 A simple Web service under .NET 417
7.2.1 A simple .NET client
7.2.2 A simple Java client
7.3 SOAP 423
7.3.1 SOAP message formats for Web services
7.3.2 HTTP binding
7.4 SOAP and .NET 430
7.4.1 The SOAP message format
7.4.2 SOAP encoding of .NET data types
7.4.3 SOAP header entries
7.4.4 Life cycle of Web services
7.5 Web service description language (WSDL) 442
7.6 Finding a Web service 445
7.7 Configuration of Web services under .NET 448
7.8 Tools and resources 450
7.8.1 .NET Web service studio
7.8.2 Useful Web sites

8 .NET tools 543
8.1 Overview 453
8.2 C# compiler 457
8.3 Configuration of an application 459
8.4 Debugging 461
8.4.1 Command line debugger
8.4.2 GUI-based debugger
8.4.3 System.Diagnostics.Debug
8.5 Other tools 469
8.5.1 IL disassembler
8.5.2 Strong name tool
8.5.3 Assembly cache viewer
8.5.4 Global assembly cache utility