When was .NET announced?
Bill Gates delivered a keynote at Forum 2000, held June 22, 2000, outlining the .NET ‘vision’. The July 2000 PDC had a number of sessions on .NET technology,... Read more »
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When was the first version of .NET released?
The final version of the 1.0 SDK and runtime was made publicly available around 6pm PST on 15-Jan-2002. At the same time, the final version of Visual Studio.NET... Read more »
What is the CLR?
CLR = Common Language Runtime. The CLR is a set of standard resources that (in theory) any .NET program can take advantage of, regardless of programming language.... Read more »
What is the CTS?
CTS = Common Type System. This is the range of types that the .NET runtime understands, and therefore that .NET applications can use. However note that not all .NET... Read more »
What is the CLS?
CLS = Common Language Specification. This is a subset of the CTS which all .NET languages are expected to support. The idea is that any program which uses CLS-compliant... Read more »
What is IL?
IL = Intermediate Language. Also known as MSIL (Microsoft Intermediate Language) or CIL (Common Intermediate Language). All .NET source code (of any language) is... Read more »
What does ‘managed’ mean in the .NET context?
The term ‘managed’ is the cause of much confusion. It is used in various places within .NET, meaning slightly different things.Managed code: The .NET framework... Read more »
What is reflection?
All .NET compilers produce metadata about the types defined in the modules they produce. This metadata is packaged along with the module (modules in turn are packaged... Read more »
What is the difference between Finalize and Dispose (Garbage collection) ?
Class instances often encapsulate control over resources that are not managed by the runtime, such as window handles (HWND), database connections, and so on. Therefore,... Read more »
What is Partial Assembly References?
Full Assembly reference: A full assembly reference includes the assembly’s text name, version, culture, and public key token (if the assembly has a strong name).... Read more »
Changes to which portion of version number indicates an incompatible change?
Major or minor. Changes to the major or minor portion of the version number indicate an incompatible change. Under this convention then, version 2.0.0.0 would be... Read more »
What is the property available to check if the page posted or not?
The Page_Load event handler in the page checks for IsPostBack property value, to ascertain whether the page is posted. The Page.IsPostBack gets a value indicating... Read more »
What is managed and unmanaged code?
The .NET framework provides several core run-time services to the programs that run within it - for example exception handling and security. For these services to... Read more »
What is Globalizationa and Localization ?
Globalization is the process of creating an application that meets the needs of users from multiple cultures. It includes using the correct currency, date and time... Read more »
What are Resource Files ? How are they used in .NET?
Resource files are the files containing data that is logically deployed with an application.These files can contain data in a number of formats including strings,... Read more »
Difference between Dispose and Finallize method?
Finalize method is used to free the memory used by some unmanaged resources like window handles (HWND). It’s similar to the destructor syntax in C#. The GC calls... Read more »
What is encapsulation ?
Encapsulation is the ability to hide the internal workings of an object’s behavior and its data. For instance, let’s say you have a object named Bike and this... Read more »
What is GUID and why we need to use it and in what condition? How this is created.
A GUID is a 128-bit integer (16 bytes) that can be used across all computers and networks wherever a unique identifier is required. Such an identifier has a very... Read more »
Why do you need to serialize.?
We need to serialize the object,if you want to pass object from one computer/application domain to another.Process of converting complex objects into stream of... Read more »
What is inline schema, how does it works?
Schemas can be included inside of XML file is called Inline Schemas.This is useful when it is inconvenient to physically seprate the schema and the XML document.A ... Read more »