01 The DotNET Framework

Windows Programming
October 2016
Course Info
• Title: Windows Programming

• Code: CoSc4152
• Credit: 3 / 5 ECTS
• Delivery: Lecture + Lab
11/30/2018 Windows Programming 2

Course Content
• .NET framework introduction
– What is the .NET Framework?
– What’s in the .NET Framework?
– Writing Applications Using the .NET Framework
– C#?
• C# fundamentals
– Namespaces, data types, operators, value and
reference types, constructors, flow control, arrays
and strings ...

Course Content
• Object-Oriented Programming with C#
– Defining classes, Inheritance, polymorphism,
interfaces, exception handling, interacting with the
Garbage collector, indexers, collections, enumerations
...
• Basic Window Forms
– Controls, The Button Control, The Label and LinkLabel
Controls, The TextBox Control, The RadioButton and
CheckBox Controls, The RichTextBox Control, The
ListBox and CheckedListBox Controls, The ListView
Control, The TabControl Control, ...

Course Content
• Advanced Window Forms
– Menus and Toolbars, Toolbars, SDI and MDI
Applications, Building MDI Applications, Creating
Controls ...
• Data Access
– File System Data, Introduction to LINQ, Applying
LINQ

Evaluation
• Group Assignment [20%]

• Two Tests [30%]
• Lab Exercises [10%]
• Final Exam [40%]

References
• Erik Brown, Windows Forms in Action - Second
Edition
• Rod A. Smith et al, C# Programming
• Christian Nagel, Jay Glynn, Morgan Skinner,
Professional C# 5.0 and .NET 4.5.1, Wrox
Press, 2014.

The .NET Framework
Topics
• What is the .NET Framework?

• What’s in the .NET Framework?
• Writing Applications Using the .NET
Framework

.NET Framework?
• a platform for developing applications

• Microsoft release, runs on Windows
• alternative versions for other systems
– Mono, open-source version of .NET Framework
• compact framework, PDAs/ smart-phones

.NET Framework?
• no restriction on the type of applications
– Windows applications
– Web applications, multiplatform applications
– Web services …
• designed to be used from any language
• languages can also communicate with each
other

What’s in the .NET Framework?
• library of code
– categorized into modules
– defines some basic types, Common Type System (CTS)
• facilitates interoperability between languages
• Common Language Runtime (CLR)
– maintaining the execution of all applications
developed using the .NET library

Writing Applications Using
the .NET Framework
• using the .NET code library
• environments
– VS, VCE
• compilation is a two step process
– CIL
– target code
Any similarity with JAVA?

code.v
Assemblies code.v
bcode.cs
b
• CIL is stored in assembly

Compiler
• includes:
.EXE / .DLL
– executable files
– libraries assembly
– metadata
• enables assemblies to be fully self descriptive
– optional resources

Assemblies
• place reusable code in a place accessible to all
applications
– global assembly cache (GAC)
• How does CLR find assemblies?
– FCL assemblies reside in GAC
– CLR looks in GAC first, then EXE's directory…

Managed Code
• Code written using .NET Framework is
managed when executed
• CLR looks after applications by
– managing memory
– handling security
– allowing cross-language debugging …
• applications not run under the control of CLR,
unmanaged

Garbage Collection
• .NET method of making sure that the memory

used by an application is freed up
• Prior to .NET, responsibility of programmers
– few errors, memory disappears, …
• works by periodically inspecting the memory
of your computer

Linking
• code that compiles into CIL needn’t be

contained in a single file
• compiled together into a single assembly
• Reason for splitting code?

Summary
• Clients need CLR & FCL to run .NET apps
• Design trade-off…
+ managed execution (memory protection, etc.)
+ portability:
– slower execution?

Summary
• Cross-platform execution [FCL, CLR]
.DLL
.EXE .DLL
.DLL
OS Process
other FCL
JIT Compiler
assemblies
obj code Core FCL

obj code
obj code assembly
Native code
CLR
Underlying OS and HW
Summary
C++
Non .NET Application
C++ Compiler
Assembly (.dll/ .exe) – Native
Operating System
C# VB6 C++ J# Other
.NET Application
Respective Language Compiler
Assembly - CIL
CIL
C
L JIT Compiler
R Native Code
Operating System
C# Fundamentals
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• Group Assignment [20%]

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• What is the .NET Framework?

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• a platform for developing applications

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• CIL is stored in assembly

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• .NET method of making sure that the memory

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• code that compiles into CIL needn’t be

• Reason for splitting code?

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obj code Core FCL

Non .NET Application

Assembly (.dll/ .exe) – Native

Respective Language Compiler

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