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by: Richter, Jeffrey

CLR via C#

by: Richter, Jeffrey

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9780735621633
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0735621632
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 02/22/2006
Publisher: Microsoft Press
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In this new edition of Jeffrey Richter's popular Applied Microsoft .Net Framework Programming, you get focused, pragmatic guidance on how to exploit the common language runtime (CLR) functionality in .NET Framework 2.0 for applications of all. Targeted to advanced developers and software designers, this book takes you under the covers of .Net for an in-depth understanding of its structure, functions, and operational components, demonstrating the most practical ways to apply this knowledge to your own development efforts. You'll master fundamental design tenets for .Net, and get hands-on insights for creating high-performance applications more easily and efficiently. The book features extensive code examples in Microsoft Visual C#r 2005.

Foreword	p. xix
Introduction	p. xxi
CLR Basics
The CLR's Execution Model	p. 3
Compiling Source Code into Managed Modules	p. 3
Combining Managed Modules into Assemblies	p. 6
Loading the Common Language Runtime	p. 8
Executing Your Assembly's Code	p. 11
The Native Code Generator Tool: NGen.exe	p. 19
Introducing the Framework Class Library	p. 22
The Common Type System	p. 24
The Common Language Specification	p. 26
Interoperability with Unmanaged Code	p. 30
Building, Packaging, Deploying, and Administering Applications and Types	p. 33
.NET Framework Deployment Goals	p. 34
Building Types into a Module	p. 35
A Brief Look at Metadata	p. 38
Combining Modules to Form an Assembly	p. 44
Assembly Version Resource Information	p. 54
Culture	p. 57
Simple Application Deployment (Privately Deployed Assemblies)	p. 58
Simple Administrative Control (Configuration)	p. 60
Shared Assemblies and Strongly Named Assemblies	p. 65
Two Kinds of Assemblies, Two Kinds of Deployment	p. 66
Giving an Assembly a Strong Name	p. 67
The Global Assembly Cache	p. 73
Building an Assembly that References a Strongly Named Assembly	p. 80
Strongly Named Assemblies Are Tamper-Resistant	p. 81
Delayed Signing	p. 82
Privately Deploying Strongly Named Assemblies	p. 84
How the Runtime Resolves Type References	p. 85
Advanced Administrative Control (Configuration)	p. 88
Working with Types
Type Fundamentals	p. 97
All Types Are Derived from system.object	p. 97
Casting Between Types	p. 99
Namespaces and Assemblies	p. 103
How Things Relate at Run Time	p. 107
Primitive, Reference, and Value Types	p. 117
Programming Language Primitive Types	p. 117
Reference Types and Value Types	p. 123
Boxing and Unboxing Value Types	p. 129
Changing Fields in a Boxed Value Type by Using Interfaces (And Why You Shouldn't Do This)	p. 141
Object Equality and Identity	p. 144
Object Hash Codes	p. 147
Designing Types
Type and Member Basics	p. 153
The Different Kinds of Type Members	p. 153
Type Visibility	p. 156
Member Accessibility	p. 158
Static Classes	p. 160
Partial Classes, Structures, and Interfaces	p. 161
Components, Polymorphism, and Versioning	p. 162
Constants and Fields	p. 177
Constants	p. 177
Fields	p. 178
Methods: Constructors, Operators, Conversions, and Parameters	p. 183
Instance Constructors and Classes (Reference Types)	p. 183
Instance Constructors and Structures (Value Types)	p. 186
Type Constructors	p. 189
Operator Overload Methods	p. 195
Conversion Operator Methods	p. 199
Passing Parameters by Reference to a Method	p. 202
Passing a Variable Number of Arguments to a Method	p. 208
Declaring a Method's Parameter Types	p. 210
Constant Methods and Parameters	p. 212
Properties	p. 213
Parameterless Properties	p. 213
Parameterful Properties	p. 218
The Performance of Calling Property Accessor Methods	p. 223
Property Accessor Accessibility	p. 224
Generic Property Accessor Methods	p. 224
Events	p. 225
Designing a Type That Exposes an Event	p. 226
How Events Are Implemented	p. 230
Designing a Type That Listens for an Event	p. 232
Events and Thread Safety	p. 234
Explicitly Controlling Event Registration and Unregistration	p. 235
Designing a Type That Defines Lots of Events	p. 237
Essential Types
Chars, Strings, and Working with Text	p. 241
Characters	p. 241
The System. string Type	p. 244
Dynamically Constructing a String Efficiently	p. 260
Obtaining a String Representation of an Object	p. 263
Parsing a String to Obtain an Object	p. 272
Encodings: Converting Between Characters and Bytes	p. 274
Secure Strings	p. 282
Enumerated Types and Bit Flags	p. 285
Enumerated Types	p. 285
Bit Flags	p. 291
Arrays	p. 295
Casting Arrays	p. 297
All Arrays Are Implicitly Derived from System.Array	p. 300
All Arrays Implicitly Implement IEnumerable, ICollection, and IList	p. 300
Passing and Returning Arrays	p. 302
Creating Non-Zero-Lower Bound Arrays	p. 303
Array Access Performance	p. 304
Unsafe Array Access and Fixed-Size Array	p. 309
Interfaces	p. 311
Class and Interface Inheritance	p. 312
Defining an Interface	p. 312
Inheriting an Interface	p. 314
More About Calling Interface Methods	p. 316
Implicit and Explicit Interface Method Implementations (What's Happening Behind the Scenes)	p. 317
Generic Interfaces	p. 319
Generics and Interface Constraints	p. 321
Implementing Multiple Interfaces That Have the Same Method Name and Signature	p. 322
Improving Compile-Time Type Safety with Explicit Interface Method Implementations	p. 323
Be Careful with Explicit Interface Method Implementations	p. 325
Design: Base Class or Interface?	p. 328
Delegates	p. 331
A First Look at Delegates	p. 331
Using Delegates to Call Back Static Methods	p. 334
Using Delegates to Call Back Instance Methods	p. 335
Demystifying Delegates	p. 336
Using Delegates to Call Back Many Methods (Chaining)	p. 340
C#'s Syntactical Sugar for Delegates	p. 347
Delegates and Reflection	p. 354
Generics	p. 359
Generics in the Framework Class Library	p. 364
Wintellect's Power Collections Library	p. 365
Generics Infrastructure	p. 366
Generic Interfaces	p. 372
Generic Delegates	p. 373
Generic Methods	p. 374
Generics and Other Members	p. 377
Verifiability and Constraints	p. 377
Custom Attributes	p. 387
Using Custom Attributes	p. 388
Defining Your Own Attribute Class	p. 391
Attribute Constructor and Field/Property Data Types	p. 395
Detecting the Use of a Custom Attribute	p. 396
Matching Two Attribute Instances Against Each Other	p. 401
Detecting the Use of a Custom Attribute Without Creating Attribute-Derived Objects	p. 403
Conditional Attribute Classes	p. 407
Nullable Value Types	p. 409
C#'s Support for Nullable Value Types	p. 411
C#'s Null-Coalescing Operator	p. 413
The CLR Has Special Support for Nullable Value Types	p. 413
CLR Facilities
Exceptions	p. 419
The Evolution of Exception Handling	p. 420
The Mechanics of Exception Handling	p. 422
Common Language Specification (CLS) and Non-CLS Exceptions	p. 426
What Exactly Is an Exception?	p. 427
The System.Exception Class	p. 429
FCL-Defined Exception Classes	p. 430
Throwing an Exception	p. 433
Defining Your Own Exception Class	p. 433
How to Use Exceptions Properly	p. 436
Performance Considerations	p. 447
Unhandled Exceptions	p. 449
Exception Stack Traces	p. 451
Debugging Exceptions	p. 453
Automatic Memory Management (Garbage Collection)	p. 457
Understanding the Basics of Working in a Garbage-Collected Platform	p. 458
The Garbage Collection Algorithm	p. 461
Garbage Collections and Debugging	p. 465
Using Finalization to Release Native Resources	p. 468
Using Finalization with Managed Resources	p. 475
What Causes Finalize Methods to Be Called	p. 477
Finalization Internals	p. 479
The Dispose Pattern: Forcing an Object to Clean Up	p. 482
Using a Type That Implements the Dispose Pattern	p. 486
C#'s using Statement	p. 489
An Interesting Dependency Issue	p. 492
Manually Monitoring and Controlling the Lifetime of Objects	p. 493
Resurrection	p. 501
Generations	p. 502
Other Garbage Collection Features for Use with Native Resources	p. 507
Predicting the Success of an Operation That Requires a Lot of Memory	p. 511
Programmatic Control of the Garbage Collector	p. 513
Other Garbage Collector Performance Topics	p. 515
Monitoring Garbage Collections	p. 519
CLR Hosting and AppDomains	p. 521
CLR Hosting	p. 521
AppDomains	p. 525
AppDomain Unloading	p. 538
How Hosts Use AppDomains	p. 539
Advanced Host Control	p. 541
Assembly Loading and Reflection	p. 549
Assembly Loading	p. 549
Using Reflection to Build a Dynamically Extensible Application	p. 553
Reflection Performance	p. 554
Designing an Application That Supports Add-Ins	p. 562
Using Reflection to Discover a Type's Members	p. 565
Performing Asynchronous Operations	p. 585
How the CLR Uses Windows Threads	p. 586
Pontificating about Efficient Thread Usage	p. 586
Introducing the CLR's Thread Pool	p. 589
Limiting the Number of Threads in the Thread Pool	p. 590
Using the Thread Pool to Perform an Asynchronous Compute-Bound Operation	p. 592
Using a Dedicated Thread to Perform an Asynchronous Compute-Bound Operation	p. 594
Periodically Performing an Asynchronous Compute-Bound Operation	p. 596
Introducing the Asynchronous Programming Model	p. 599
Using the APM to Perform an Asynchronous I/O-Bound Operation	p. 600
The APM's Three Rendezvous Techniques	p. 602
Using the APM to Perform an Asynchronous Compute-Bound Operation	p. 612
The APM and Exceptions	p. 614
Important Notes about the APM	p. 615
Execution Contexts	p. 617
Thread Synchronization	p. 621
Memory Consistency, Volatile Memory Access, and Volatile Fields	p. 622
The Interlocked Methods	p. 629
The Monitor Class and Sync Blocks	p. 630
The ReaderWriterLock Class	p. 642
Using Windows Kernel Objects from Managed Code	p. 643
Index	p. 649
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