Programming in the .NET Environment

An authoritative guide for students that need to develop software that takes full advantage of the .NET Framework. This book shows students how to produce generic frameworks, libraries, classes, and tools to be used in the .NET Framework. It also shows how to use the right language to develop parts of a system and then incorporate these parts together at runtime regardless of language differences. The book concludes with a series of appendices.

Table of Contents

Foreword.
Preface.
1. Introducing the .NET Framework.
2. The Type System.
3. The Metadata System.
4. The Execution System.
5. Building Applications.
6. Deploying Applications.
7. The Framework Class Library.
Appendix A: Visual Basic .NET.
Appendix B: C#.
Appendix C: Python for .NET.
Appendix D: Perl and the .NET Runtime.
Appendix E: Component Pascal on the CLR.
Appendix F: Hotdog: Compiling Scheme to Object-Oriented Virtual Machines.
Appendix G: Functional Languages for the .NET Framework.
Appendix H: Active Oberon for .NET: A Case Study in Language Model Mapping.
Glossary.
Suggested Reading List.