Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming (Pro-Developer) [Paperback]

Jeffrey Richter (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0735614229 | ISBN-13: 978-0735614222 | Publication Date: January 22, 2002

The Microsoft® .NET Framework allows developers to quickly build robust, secure ASP.NET Web Forms and XML Web service applications, Windows® Forms applications, tools, and types. Find out all about its common language runtime and learn how to leverage its power to build, package, and deploy any kind of application or component. APPLIED MICROSOFT .NET FRAMEWORK PROGRAMMING is ideal for anyone who understands object-oriented programming concepts such as data abstraction, inheritance, and polymorphism. The book carefully explains the extensible type system of the .NET Framework, examines how the runtime manages the behavior of types, and explores how an application manipulates types. While focusing on C#, it presents concepts applicable to all programming languages that target the .NET Framework.

Topics covered include:

• The .NET Framework architecture
• Building, packaging, deploying, and administering applications and their types
• Building and deploying shared assemblies
• Type fundamentals
• Primitive, reference, and value types
• Operations common to all objects
• Type members and accessibility
• Constants, fields, methods, properties, and events
• Working with text
• Enumerated types and bit flags
• Array types
• Interfaces
• Custom attributes
• Delegates
• Error handling with exceptions
• Automatic memory management
• AppDomains and reflection
• Includes coverage of C#

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming is a tutorial. It's meant for programmers who already know an object-oriented language and want to apply their knowledge in the standardized environment provided by the Microsoft .NET Framework. The book, written by Jeffrey Richter, a programmer and the .NET columnist at Microsoft's magazine for its developer community, takes a more or less language-agnostic approach to the run-time environment (though many illustrative examples are in C#). It aims to untangle the Common Language Runtime (CLR) and some of the Framework Class Library (FCL), and generally succeeds, particularly at the former. Richter shares his knowledge of the key classes you can instantiate in the CLR, and the kinds of operations you can perform on and with them.

You can read this book, or individual chapters, from beginning to end. You'll probably find it more helpful, though, if you read individual sections as you encounter problems or develop an interest in specific aspects of the CLR (ideal for those middle-of-the-night "I wonder how it does..." questions). Richter typically lets his code do most of the talking, and he'll often introduce a section with a prose summary of the CLR way of doing something (sometimes with a supplementary diagram) before unleashing a string of quick examples that illustrate variations on the theme. In an unusual and helpful tutorial move, he makes heavy use of the ILDASM utility to show what goes on at compile time. --David Wall

Topics covered: How the Microsoft .NET Framework--in other words, the Common Language Runtime (CLR) and parts of the Framework Class Library (FCL)--runs Microsoft .NET applications, and how to write software for the framework. Shared assemblies, characteristics of CLR types (including their properties, methods, fields, and events), and object orientation all get ample coverage. There's particularly detailed information on text manipulation (including internationalization and localization), arrays, custom interfaces, and the managed environment (garbage collection) in the CLR environment.

About the Author

Jeffrey Richter is a cofounder of Wintellect (www.wintellect.com)-a training, debugging, and consulting firm dedicated to helping companies build better software faster. He is the author of the previous editions of this book, Windows via C/C++, and several other Windows®-related programming books. Jeffrey has been consulting with the Microsoft® .NET Framework team since October 1999.

Product Details

• Paperback: 632 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press (January 22, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735614229
• ISBN-13: 978-0735614222
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.6 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (89 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #623,925 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #97 in Books > Computers & Technology > Microsoft > Development > .NET

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73 of 75 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential .NET Book, February 12, 2002

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RICHARD DIBONA (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming (Pro-Developer) (Paperback)

As a highly experienced VB/COM developer, I have been making the move over the C# and .NET. I have spent hours at the book stores looking over nearly every book available. I have bought a bunch of books as well, but none have come close to this book as far as insight, depth of knowledge, and .NET fundamentals. Mind you, this book is by no means for programming or object oriented beginners. It is meant for programmers who really know their stuff, but now want to know their stuff on .NET. Expecting to create a .NET solution without thorough knowledge of the material in this book would be seriously shortchanging your app.

Each chapter of this book covers a different fundamental piece of .NET -- Methods, Events, Shared Assemblies, Exceptions, etc. Without getting too language specific, he writes thoroughly about how these fundamentals were meant to be used. It is clear that he spent a lot of time with the Microsoft .NET team, as much of the material in this book is unavailable elsewhere, to my knowledge. But this book is far from a Microsoft infomercial, as so many are. For example, he talks about C# primitive types and actually disagrees with Microsoft's C# language spec with regard to their usage.

In summary, I would highly recommend this book to any experienced programmer who is serious about getting up to speed with .NET.

40 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Inside look to .Net Framework, July 18, 2002

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Deema Shaath - See all my reviews

This review is from: Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming (Pro-Developer) (Paperback)

This book is an excellent inside look to programming with the .Net Framework. It is a good start to anyone who wishes to familiarize himself with it . This book is all about the small stuff that many .Net programming books tend to ignore . What I particularly liked in this book are the following:
- How the Compiler assembles C# code into IL code . In many chapters this is done to show performance impact on doing thing one way not the other way
- Working with CLR Types : comparison between types, and how to perform casting, boxing, and unboxing
- Events and Delegates and how to use them
- Exception was covered in more details than the typical ( try - catch) explanations that I found in most other .Net books. I particularly liked the talk about unhandled exception and non CLS compliant exceptions.

I read the book from cover to cover and used some techniques in terms of delegates and exception handling in my application. I just found the chapter on "Garbage Collection" little confusing. Also it doesn't have a lot of programming examples, and all the programming examples are in C#.

ONE FINAL THING to add is that this book is mainly about programming with Common Language Runtime. It is not a reference book that covers the different class libraries that .Net framework offers and how to use them, for that you probably need to buy other books to cover topics such as : ASP .Net, ADO.NET, Web Services, Remoting, etc.. .

44 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The *definitive* book on CLR and .NET internals!!, February 6, 2002

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"samgentile" (Nashua, NH United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming (Pro-Developer) (Paperback)

I have been working with .NET for almost two years now and had extremely high expectations for this book. Not only have they been met but far surpassed! This book is absolutely amazing and full of detailed information unavailable anywehere else. Even people that have worked with .NET for 2 years struggle over how JIT of methods really works: Does it JIT each method and then cache or JIT each time? Richter shows you on page 15 in detail. By page 9, he is already on a detailed explanation of how the CLR loads and the JMP _CorExeMain mechaism. I read the first 70 pages last night and I can say with confidence that I learned something new every page! How rare that is for a technical book and how rare especially for a .NET book. Assemblies and how they are made up internally are covered in Chapter 2, Shared Assemblies in 3, then types. But the crown jewel, IMHO, of this book, is Chapter 19, on Garbage Collection, which is the best darn detailed explanation of GC in .NET anywhere and finalization. This book is a *must* have for any serious .NET programmer.