Microsoft Visual C# 2005:Complete Starter Kit

Hour 24. The 10,000-Foot View What You'll Learn in This Hour: Understanding the .NET FrameworkUnderstanding the Common Language Runtime (CLR)How Visual C# 2005 Uses the Microsoft Intermediate LanguageUsing Visual Studio .NET NamespacesUnd...

The .NET Framework The components and technology that make up Microsoft .NET are collectively called the .NET Framework. The .NET Framework comprises numerous classes and includes components such as the Common Language Runtime, Microsoft Intermedi...

Common Language Runtime A language runtime allows an application to run on a target computer; it consists of code that's shared among all applications developed using a supported language. A runtime contains the "guts" of language code, ...

Microsoft Intermediate Language As you can see in Figure 24.1, all .NET code, regardless of the language syntax used, compiles to Intermediate Language (IL) code. IL code is the only code the Common Language Runtime understands; it doesn't underst...

Namespaces As mentioned earlier in this book, the .NET Framework is composed of classesmany classes. Namespaces are the method used to create a hierarchical structure of all these classes, and they help prevent naming collisions. A naming collisio...

Common Type System The Common Type System in the Common Language Runtime is the component that defines how data types are declared and used. The fact that the common language runtime can support cross-language integration to the level it does is d...

Garbage Collection Although I've talked a lot about objects (you can't talk about anything .NET related without talking about objects), I've avoided discussing the underlying technical details of how .NET creates, manages, and destroys objects. Al...

Further Reading Readers often ask me what books they should read next. I do not have a specific answer to this question because it depends entirely on the person asking it. Chances are, you're learning .NET for one of the following reasons: Schoo...

Summary Now that you've completed this book, you should have a solid working understanding of developing applications with Visual C# 2005. Nevertheless, you've just embarked on your journey. One of the things I love about developing applications f...