CLR via C# (4th Edition) (Developer Reference)
Language: English
Pages: 896
ISBN: 0735667454
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Dig deep and master the intricacies of the common language runtime, C#, and .NET development. Led by programming expert Jeffrey Richter, a longtime consultant to the Microsoft .NET team - you’ll gain pragmatic insights for building robust, reliable, and responsive apps and components.
- Fully updated for .NET Framework 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012
- Delivers a thorough grounding in the .NET Framework architecture, runtime environment, and other key topics, including asynchronous programming and the new Windows Runtime
- Provides extensive code samples in Visual C# 2012
- Features authoritative, pragmatic guidance on difficult development concepts such as generics and threading
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Chapter 2 Building, Packaging, Deploying, and Administering Applications and Types 33 The .NET Framework addresses the DLL hell issue in a big way, as you’ll see while reading this chapter and Chapter 3. It also goes a long way toward fixing the problem of having an application’s state scattered all over a user’s hard disk. For example, unlike COM, types no longer require settings in the registry. Unfortunately, applications still require shortcut links. As for security, the .NET Framework
Each entry includes flags and name. As the compiler compiles your source code, everything your code defines causes an entry to be created in one of the tables described in Table 2-1. Metadata table entries are also created as the compiler detects the types, fields, methods, properties, and events that the source code references. The metadata created includes a set of reference tables that keep a record of the referenced items. Table 2-2 shows some of the more common reference metadata tables.
On the other hand, if you’re adding new features to your assembly, you should consider the assembly to have no relationship to a previous version, and you shouldn’t ship a publisher policy assembly. In addition, there’s no need to do any backward compatibility testing with such an assembly. Chapter 4 Type Fundamentals In this chapter: All Types Are Derived from System.Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Casting Between Types