CLR via C# 3rd Ed Jeffery Richter

The purpose of this book is to explain how to develop applications and reusable classes for the .NET Framework. Specifically, this means that I intend to explain how the CLR works and the facilities that it offers. I’ll also discuss various parts of the Framework Class Library (FCL). No book could fully explain the FCL—it contains literally thousands of types now, and this number continues to grow at an alarming rate. Therefore, here I’m concentrating on the core types that every developer needs to be aware of. And while this book isn’t specifically about Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Silverlight, XML Web services, Web Forms, and so on, the technologies presented in the book are applicable to all these application types. The book addresses Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework version 4.0, and version 4.0 of the C# programming language. Since Microsoft tries to maintain a large degree of backward compatibility when releasing a new version of these technologies, many of the things I discuss in this book apply to earlier versions as well. All the code samples use the C# programming language as a way to demonstrate the behavior of the various facilities. But, since the CLR is usable by many programming languages, the book’s content is still quite applicable for the non-C# programmer. Today, Microsoft offers several versions of the CLR. There is the desktop/server version, which runs on 32-bit x86 versions of Microsoft Windows as well as 64-bit x64 and IA64 versions of Windows. There is the Silverlight version, which is produced from the same source code base as the desktop/server version of the .NET Framework’s CLR. Therefore, everything in this book applies to building Silverlight applications, with the exception of some differences in how Silverlight loads assemblies. There is also a “lite” version of the .NET Framework called the .NET Compact Framework, which is available for Windows Mobile phones and other devices running the Windows CE operating system. Much of the information presented in this book is applicable to developing applications for the .NET Compact Framework, but this platform is not the primary focus of this book. On December 13, 2001, ECMA International (http://www.ecma-international.org/ ) accepted the C# programming language, portions of the CLR, and portions of the FCL as standards. The standards documents that resulted from this have allowed other organizations to build ECMA-compliant versions of these technologies for other CPU architectures, as well as other operating systems. In fact, Novell produces Moonlight (http://www.mono-project.com /Moonlight), an open-source implementation of Silverlight (http://Silverlight.net) that is primarily for Linux and other UNIX/X11-based operating systems. Moonlight is based on the ECMA specifications. Much of the content in this book is about these standards; therefore, many will find this book useful for working with any runtime/library implementation that adheres to the ECMA standard.

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abapa (2011-05-29)

Thank You :)