A little over a year ago, after a development effort spanning many years, Microsoft released a suite of products and technologies under the .NET brand. This seminar focuses on these products and technologies behind the Microsoft .NET initiative:

• The .NET Framework, its components and operation
• Tools and technologies that support .NET development
• Application development in .NET

This seminar surveys the .NET architecture and the related application and development models. The seminar also compares the .NET architecture with traditional and non-Microsoft frameworks, in particular the Java and open source offerings. The following topics are covered:

• The Common Language Runtime
• Common Type System
• Assemblies and Metadata
• Managed code and the code execution model
• Security mechanisms
• Remote objects, method invocation, and object lifetimes
• .NET languages and their features: garbage collection, attributes, reflection, and event handling
• The .NET class library - a survey
• .NET tools
• Application design, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, UI, and the role of web services
• Use of standards (XML, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, JScript, D/HTML)
• Comparison with older Microsoft technologies (COM/DCOM and Windows DNA)
• Comparison with Java and J2EE framework and interoperability with .NET applications

Optional text for the seminar: Understanding .NET: A Tutorial and Analysis, by David Chappell, published by Addison Wesley Professional. This is an overview of .NET accessible to a wide audience; it will complement the seminar content. The seminar will provide additional references for those who want to dive deeper into .NET.

Dilip M. Hardas is a Systems Architect at Omicron Consulting in Philadelphia, PA. He has been in the computer systems and software development field for over 20 years. At Omicron, he is engaged in designing and developing software using the .NET framework in addition to other technologies and standards. Earlier, he has worked on developing software on U*ix and other non-Microsoft platforms at Digital and Tektronix. He has a BTech. in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi and an MS in Computer Science from SUNY Buffalo. He is a co-author of BizTalk Unleashed from SAMS Publishing and is also a member of the IEEE and the ACM.

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Seminar: .NET Architecture - April 26, 2003
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