VM.DotNET

Jul 17, 2004 ∞

A different advantage of multi-language support in .NET

Today, I had to create the skeleton VS.NET solution along with the different .NET projects that would go into the solution for a new project at my workplace.

The reason I chose today as the day for this is that I could see someone starting to go ahead with the project development like some student hacking his way around. I have lost the patience to even look at such kind of coding. Worst is the case when there are files named “WebForm1.aspx” and “WebApplication1.sln”. If not today then never it will be. If substantial amount of coding goes into the project then the natural tendency to resist change occurs and the result is spaghetti code. ( ”Denial is the most predictable of all human responses” - from Matrix - http://www.neoandtrinity.net/)

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Feb 11, 2004 ∞

The No-Linker concept in .NET

Yesterday night while returning to my home, dropped in to my friends startup company. It so happened that I had to talk about “Gettting started with C#”.

I thought it would be great to write the HelloWorld program and start disecting it. It so happened that, we went on to discuss on topics like:

Whats the difference b/w compiler and interpreter?
What happens from the time of double click of an windows application till some output is got? We had gone as far as to see what is an OS loader, how processor executes instructions, where are instructions stored and all those stuff which should have been discussed at the college days.
Defination of Object.
Seing the anology of an object and me.
Seing the anology of a class and human class.
Class methods and Instance methods.
Whats the difference b/w an *.exe and *.dll file
About PE file format.

The most important point of the talk was when I understood that .NET does not have the concept of a Linker .

There is no linker because there is no such thing like statements in C/C++.

I could not resist to go deep further into the Metadata Tables and related basic stuff. Realized as to why Jeff Richter has given priority to Metadata and Assemblies in his excellent book “Advanced .NET programming”.

I am out to see whats the scenario in Java Technology case. (Recently lots of comparison is happening b/w Java Technologies and .NET) The best link of all is http://www.dwheeler.com/java-imp.html

Jan 29, 2004 ∞

C# Types

While having discussion with my friend yesterday, I realized that “There’s plenty of room in C# Types”.

Some of the questions i faced were:

Why did they go for Value Types?

What is actually a Stack and Heap?

Many more fundamental doubts arised. I am now in quest for answering those fundamental questions.

The First, among the plethora of doubts would be to clear “How much memory is allocated in Stack and in Heap for a simple program like the one below?”

//simple.cs
namespace ManiSoft.Practice
{
   internal class Simple
   {
       public static void Main()
      {
           int x;
           x = 7;
      }
   }
}

Also wondering at

Is x a Value Type? (B'cause it is within a Reference Type)

Ok. Out to read some basic stuff from Jeff Richter.

Dec 31, 2003 ∞

CLI and .NET

After a long delay, today got the chance to present the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) presentation to my colleagues.

A very short, 20 minutes presentation. The shortest presentation of mine till now.

The Microsoft Powerpoint Slides can be downloaded from here(zip-290KB)

Related sites of interest would be:
ECMA – www.ecma-international.org
ISO – www.iso.ch
ROTOR – www.sscli.net
MONO – www.go-mono.com
DotGNU – www.gnu.org/projects/dotgnu/
.NET – www.microsoft.com/net

2003 has been the most eventfull year for me (Stepped into .NET). Hoping to get more surprises and changes in the coming year.