Smith Nguyen Studio .NET Framework Essentials Thuan Thai Hoang Q Lam Publisher: O'Reilly First Edition June 2001 ISBN: 0-596 -00165-7, 320 pages Smith Nguyen Studio Preface Audience About This Book Assumptions This Book Makes Conventions Used in This Book How to Contact Us Acknowledgments Chapter .NET Overview 10 1.1 Microsoft NET .10 1.2 The NET Platform .11 1.3 NET F ramework Design Goals .12 1.4 NET Framework 15 Chapter The Common Language Runtime .17 2.1 CLR Environment .17 2.2 CLR Executables 17 2.3 Metadata .21 2.4 Assemblie s and Manifests 26 2.5 Intermediate Language (IL) 31 2.6 The CTS and CLS .33 2.7 CLR Execution .37 2.8 Summary 40 Chapter .NET Programming 42 3.1 Common Programmin g Model 42 3.2 Core Features and Languages 44 3.3 Language Integration 55 3.4 Summary 59 Chapter Working with NET Components 61 4.1 Deployment Options 61 4.2 Distributed Components 69 4.3 COM+ Services in NET 72 4.4 Message Queuing 82 4.5 Summary 84 Chapter Data and XML 85 5.1 ADO.NET Architecture .85 5.2 ADO.NET Benefits 86 5.3 Content Components 88 5.4 Managed Providers .98 5.5 DataSet and XML .107 5.6 Summary 115 Chapter Web Services 117 6.1 Web Services in Practice 117 6.2 Web Services Framework .118 6.3 Web Services Provider 127 6.4 Web Services Consumers .131 6.5 Web Services and Security 146 6.6 Summary 148 Smith Nguyen Studio .NET Framework Essentials Chapter Web Forms 149 7.1 ASP 149 7.2 ASP.NET 149 7.3 The System.Web.UI Namespace 150 7.4 Web Form Syntax 156 7.5 ASP.NET Application Development 161 7.6 ASP.NET and Web Services 173 7.7 Data Binding and the Use of Templates 175 7.8 State Management and Scalability 180 7.9 Summary 182 Chapter Windows Forms 183 8.1 Introducing Windows Forms .183 8.2 The System.Windows.Forms Namespace 184 8.3 Windows Forms Development 188 8.4 Windows Forms and Web Services 205 8.5 Conclusion 205 Appendix A .NET Languages 207 A.1 Microsoft-Supported Languages for NET 207 A.2 Third-Party Languages for NET 207 Appendix B Common Acronyms 209 Appendix C Common Datatypes 213 C.1 Usage 214 Appendix D Common Utilities 218 D.1 Assembly Generation U tility (al.exe) 218 D.2 Assembly Registration Utility (gac.exe) 219 D.3 MSIL Assembler (ilasm.exe) 219 D.4 MSIL Disassembler (ildasm.exe) 220 D.5 C++ Compiler (cl.exe) 220 D.6 C# Compiler (csc.exe) 220 D.7 Visual Basic Compiler (vbc.exe) 221 D.8 PE File Format Viewer (dumpbin.exe) 221 D.9 Type Library Exporter (tlbexp.exe) 222 D.10 Type Library Importer (tlbimp.exe) 222 D.11 XML Schema Definition Tool (xsd.exe) 222 D.12 Shared Name Utility (sn.exe) 224 D.13 Web Service Utility (wsdl.exe) 224 Colophon 225 Smith Nguyen Studio .NET Framework Essentials Preface Audience About This Book Assumptions This Book Makes Conventions Used in This Book How to Contact Us Acknowledgments .NET Overview 1.1 Microsoft NET 1.2 The NET Platform 1.3 NET Framework Design Goals 1.4 NET Framework The Common Language Runtime 2.1 CLR Environment 2.2 CLR Executables 2.3 Metadata 2.4 Assemblies and Manifests 2.5 Intermediate Language (IL) 2.6 The CTS and CLS 2.7 CLR Execution 2.8 Summary .NET Programming 3.1 Common Programming Model 3.2 Core Features and Languages 3.3 Language Integration 3.4 Summary Working with NET Components 4.1 Deployment Options 4.2 Distributed Components 4.3 COM+ Services in NET 4.4 Message Queuing 4.5 Summary Data and XML 5.1 ADO.NET Architecture 5.2 ADO.N ET Benefits 5.3 Content Components 5.4 Managed Providers 5.5 DataSet and XML 5.6 Summary Web Services 6.1 Web Services in Practice 6.2 Web Services Framework 6.3 Web Services Provider 6.4 Web Services Consumers 6.5 Web Services and Security 6.6 Summary Smith Nguyen Studio .NET Framework Essentials Web Forms 7.1 ASP 7.2 ASP.NET 7.3 The System.Web.UI Namespace 7.4 Web Form Syntax 7.5 ASP.NET Application Development 7.6 ASP.NET and Web Services 7.7 Data Bin ding and the Use of Templates 7.8 State Management and Scalability 7.9 Summary Windows Forms 8.1 Introducing Windows Forms 8.2 The System.Windows.Forms Namespace 8.3 Windows Forms Development 8.4 Windows Forms and Web Services 8.5 Conclusion A .NET Languages A.1 Microsoft-Supported Languages for NET A.2 Third -Party Languages for NET B Common Acronyms C Common Datatypes C.1 Usage D Common Utilities D.1 Assembly Generation Utility (al.exe) D.2 Assembly Registration Utility (gac.exe) D.3 MSIL Assembler (ilasm.exe) D.4 MSIL Disassembler (ildasm.exe) D.5 C++ Compiler (cl.exe) D.6 C# Compiler (csc.exe) D.7 Visual Basic Compiler (vbc.exe) D.8 PE File Format Viewer (dumpbin.exe) D.9 Type Library Exporter (tlbexp.exe) D.10 Type Library Importer (tlbimp.exe) D.11 XML Schema Definition Tool (xsd.exe) D.12 Shared Name Utility (sn.exe) D.13 Web Service Utility (wsdl.exe) Colophon NET Framework Essentials is a concise and technical overview of the new Microsoft NET Framework Covered here are all of the most important topics—from the underlying Common Language Runtime (CLR) to its speci alized packages for ASP.NET, Web Forms, Windows Forms, XML and data access (ADO.NET) The authors survey each of the major NET languages, including VB.NET, C# and Managed C++ .NET Framework Essentials Colophon Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, b reathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects The animals on the cover of NET Framework Essentials are shrimp The 2,000 species of shrimp range in size from fractions of an inch to inches-with an average size of about inches Like other crustaceans (including lobsters, crabs, crayfish, and barnacles), the shrimp has a segmented body covered by a hard, translucent exoskeleton, has a flexible abdomen and fan-shaped tail, and utilizes a "toolkit" of jointed appendages-each with specialized functions for various activities The shrimp's exoskeleton, while providing a strong protective layer over its body, must be shed occasionally to allow for growth in a process called molting Similar to this process of regrowth, lost appendages can be regenerated if need be Different species of shrimp are found in marine and fresh water shallow and deep all over the world Swimming backward by rapidly flexing its abdomen and tail, and with the assistance of specialized legs for swimming, the shrimp feeds on smaller plants and animals, as well as carrion In fact, several species engage in symbiotic (mutually benefical or dependent) relationships with other organisms The coral shrimp (Stenopus hispidus) cleans the scales of the coral fish, while the fish in turn swims backward through the shrimp's pincers (presumably to clean them) In addition, species of Alpheus shrimp share burrows with blind goby fish The shrimp brings food to the goby, while the goby cleans the burrow and warns the shrimp of danger by using signaled body movements Interestingly, certain species of shrimp are hermaphroditic The juvenile shrimp grows up as a male and is fully functional in sexual reproduction with females When it reaches half the size of the female, the male shrimp loses its male sexual organs and develops those of the female Upon reaching full size, the shrimp is then a typical female and is fully able to mate again However, this time it mates with a juvenile male, rather than with an adult female as before Jeffrey Holcomb was the production editor and copyeditor for NET Framework Essentials Mary Brady and Claire Cloutier provided quality control Sada Preisch and Edie Shapiro provided production assistance Joe Wizda wrote the index Ellie Volckhausen designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman The cover image is a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive Emma Colby produced the cover layout with Quark™XPress 4.1 using Adobe's ITC Garamond font David Futato designed the interior layout based on a series design by Nancy Priest Anne-Marie Vaduva converted the files from Microsoft Word to FrameMaker 5.5.6 using tools created by Mike Sierra The text and heading fonts are ITC Garamond Light and Garamond Book; the code font is Constant Willison The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano and Jessamyn Read using Macromedia FreeHand and Adobe Photoshop This colophon was written by Jeffrey Holcomb 225 226 ... packages for ASP .NET, Web Forms, Windows Forms, XML and data access (ADO .NET) The authors survey each of the major NET languages, including VB .NET, C# and Managed C++ .NET Framework Essentials Colophon... .NET Framework Essentials Preface Audience About This Book Assumptions This Book Makes Conventions Used in This Book How to Contact Us Acknowledgments .NET Overview 1.1 Microsoft NET 1.2 The NET. .. Acknowledgments Chapter .NET Overview 10 1.1 Microsoft NET .10 1.2 The NET Platform .11 1.3 NET F ramework Design Goals .12 1.4 NET Framework 15