.NET: Type Fundamentals
Discusses type fundamentals. Starts off by introducing primitive types and then quickly moves on to reference types and value types. By Jeffrey Richter, MSDN Magazine.
Avoiding DLL Hell: Introducing Application Metadata in the Microsoft .NET Framework
Describes the use of metadata for easy linking and loading of assemblies, the relationship between metadata and concepts such as IDL and type libraries, and the metadata hierarchy.…
Back end of .Net
eWEEK Labs' tests of betas of Microsoft servers show how the rhetoric meets the road. By Timothy Dyck.
Deploying .NET Software Components
An introduction to .NET Software Components Deployment. By Jean-Claude Batista.
Garbage Collection: Automatic Memory Management in the Microsoft .NET Framework
Explains how resources are allocated and managed, then gives a description of how the garbage collection algorithm works. Also discussed are the way resources can clean up properly…
Garbage Collection: Automatic Memory Management in the Microsoft .NET Framework, Part 2
Explains strong and weak object references that help to manage memory for large objects, as well as object generations and how they improve performance. In addition, the use of met…
Introduction to .NET, Hello World, and a Quick Look Inside the .NET Runtime
The .NET Framework and Runtime-and why you might care. How to get and install Beta 1 of the .NET Framework SDK and/or Visual Studio.NET. Looks at the metadata and IL for sample pro…
Microsoft .NET Framework Component Services, Part 1
Discusses the coding, compilation, and deployment process for writing managed classes that utilize COM+ services. By Jonathan Hawkins and Shannon Pahl, Microsoft Corporation.
Microsoft .NET vs. J2EE: How Do They Stack Up?
A high-level comparison of the two platforms. By Jim Farley, O'Reilly.
Microsoft Goes Bonkers
Microsoft's latest announcement, called Microsoft .NET, while touted by the likes of Fortune Magazine as a huge "revolution", is really nothing but vaporware. By Joel Spolsky.
Microsoft's .NET Impact
Exploiting Microsoft's enterprise application strategy, .NET, should prove a dream for IT managers. The pre-beta version is inherently scalable and easy to build and deploy, saving…
Secure Managed Assembly
This article describes a simple yet elegant way of securing managed assemblies from easy disassembly by using the powerful interoperability features of .Net.
Simplifying Deployment and Solving DLL Hell with the .NET Framework
Introduces the concept of an assembly and describes how the .NET Framework uses assemblies to solve versioning and deployment problems. By Steven Pratschner, Microsoft.
Spider in .NET: Crawl Web Sites and Catalog Info to Any Data Store with ADO.NET and Visual Basic .NET
MSDN Magazine article by Mark Gerlach that shows how to write a multi-threaded web crawler using Visual Base .NET .
The Code Project - Jeff Prosise on .NET - Interviews
Jeff Prosise from Wintellect has agreed to step up to the podium and give us his thoughts on Life, the Universe, and .NET. Jeff Prosise answers your questions on .NET. By Chris Mau…
The Significance of .NET
MicrosoftÂ’s latest offers an unprecedented level of language interoperability for Web-based applications. By Bertrand Meyer, Software Development Magazine.
Welcome to the .NET Channel
Columnist Paul Thurrott kicks off the Windows 2000 Magazine Network's .NET Channel.
XML in .NET
Microsoft .NET introduces a new suite of XML APIs built on industry standards such as DOM, XPath, XSD, and XSLT. A discussion of the XMLDOM-Document is also included. By Aaron Skon…
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