1. .Net Framework Joel Pereira (joelcdp@microsoft.com) Software Design Engineer WinFS API Team Microsoft Corporation

2. Agenda Part I - Fundamentals Programming Models Design Goals and Architecture CLR Services Part II – Visual Studio 2005 Extending the Platform Improving the Platform Innovation in the Platform

3. Unify Programming Models Windows API.NET Framework Consistent API availability regardless of language and programming model ASPStateless, Code embedded in HTML pages MFC/ATLSubclassing,Power,Expressiveness VB Forms RAD,Composition,Delegation

4. Make It Simple To Use Organization Code organized in hierarchical namespaces and classes Unified type system Everything is an object, no variants, one string type, all character data is Unicode Component Oriented Properties, methods, events, and attributes are first class constructs Design-time functionality

5. How Much Simpler? HWND hwndMain = CreateWindowEx( 0, "MainWClass", "Main Window", 0, "MainWClass", "Main Window", WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW | WS_HSCROLL | WS_VSCROLL, WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW | WS_HSCROLL | WS_VSCROLL, CW_USEDEFAULT, CW_USEDEFAULT, CW_USEDEFAULT, CW_USEDEFAULT, (HWND)NULL, (HMENU)NULL, hInstance, NULL); (HWND)NULL, (HMENU)NULL, hInstance, NULL); ShowWindow(hwndMain, SW_SHOWDEFAULT); UpdateWindow(hwndMain); Form form = new Form(); form.Text = "Main Window"; form.Show(); Windows API.NET Framework

6. Hello World Demo What you need

7. Agenda

8. Common Language Runtime Design Goals Dramatically simplifies development and deployment Unifies programming models Provides robust and secure execution environment Supports multiple programming languages

9. Architectural Overview Common Language Runtime Framework Class loader and layout GC, stack walk, code manager IL to native code compilers Security Execution Support Base Classes

10. Assembly Compilation And Execution Source Code Language Compiler Compilation At installation or the first time each method is called Execution JIT Compiler NativeCode Code (IL) Metadata

11. Languages The CLR is Language Neutral All languages are first class players You can leverage your existing skills Common Language Specification Set of features guaranteed to be in all languages We are providing VB, C++, C#, J#, JScript Third-parties are building APL, COBOL, Pascal, Eiffel, Haskell, ML, Oberon, Perl, Python, Scheme, Smalltalk…

12. Hello World Demo

13. Agenda

14. Component-Based Programming 3 core technologies make building and using components easy Type safety Automatic memory management Metadata This greatly simplifies application development

15. Type Safety Type safety ensures that objects are used the way they were intended to be used Prevents an object’s state from being corrupted The CLR enforces type safety Attempting to coerce an object to an incompatible type causes the CLR to throw an exception Type safety means code confidence Common programmer errors will be found immediately Rectangle(hwnd, 0, 0, 10, 10); //hwnd should be an hdc MessageBox(hwnd, “”, “”, IDOK); //IDOK should be MB_OK

16. Automatic Memory Management The CLR tracks the code’s use of objects and ensures Objects are not freed while still in use (no memory corruption) Objects are freed when no longer in use (no memory leaks) Code is easier to write because there is no question as to which component is responsible to free an object When passed a buffer, who frees it: caller or callee? Each process has 1 heap used by all components Objects can’t be allocated from different heaps You don’t have to know which heap memory was allocated in or which API to call to free the memory In fact, there is no API to free memory, the GC does it

17. Metadata Set of data tables embedded in an EXE/DLL The tables describe what is defined in the file (Type, fields, methods, etc.) Every component’s interface is described by metadata tables A component’s implementation is described by Intermediate Language The existence of metadata tables enables many features No header files Visual Studio’s IntelliSense Components don’t have to be registered in the registry Components don’t need separate IDL or TLB files The GC knows when an object’s fields refer to other objects An object’s fields can be automatically serialized/deserialized At runtime, an application can determine what types are in a file and what members the type defines (also known as late binding) Components can be written/used by different languages

18. Metadata: Creation And Use Metadata (and code) Debugger SchemaGenerator Profiler Compilers Proxy Generator Type Browser Compiler SourceCode XML encoding (SDL or SUDS) Serialization Designers Reflection TLB Exporter

19. Runtime Execution Model Class Loader CPU Managed Native Code Assembly First call to method First reference to type Assembly Resolver First reference to Assembly IL to native conversion

20. JIT Compiler - Inline

21. Standardization A subset of the.NET Framework and C# submitted to ECMA ECMA and ISO International Standards Co-sponsored with Intel, Hewlett-Packard Common Language Infrastructure Based on Common Language Runtime and Base Framework Layered into increasing levels of functionality

22. Rotor (SSCLI) Shared-Source version of the CLR+BCL+C# compiler Ports available: Windows, FreeBSD, OSX, etc Real product code offers real world learning http://sscli.org

23. Developer Roadmap “Orcas” release “Orcas” release Windows “Longhorn” integrationWindows “Longhorn” integration New UI tools and designersNew UI tools and designers Extensive managed interfacesExtensive managed interfaces Visual Studio Orcas “Longhorn” Visual Studio.NET 2003 “Everett Release” “Everett Release” Windows Server 2003 integrationWindows Server 2003 integration Support for.NET Compact Framework and device developmentSupport for.NET Compact Framework and device development Improved performanceImproved performance Visual Studio 2005 “Yukon” “Whidbey” release “Whidbey” release SQL Server integrationSQL Server integration Improved IDE productivity and community supportImproved IDE productivity and community support Extended support for XML Web servicesExtended support for XML Web services Office programmabilityOffice programmability

24. Agenda

25. SQL Server Integration Design Goal Bring framework programming model into the database tier Allow business logic to easily migrate to the most appropriate tier Enable safe database extensions Result: Stored Procedures, Triggers, data types defined in managed code

26. VS.NET Project Assembly: geom.dll VB, C#, … Build SQL Server SQL Data Definition: create assembly … create function … create procedure … create trigger … create type … SQL Queries: SELECT name FROM Supplier WHERE Location.Distance ( @point ) < 3 CLR hosted by SQL (in-proc) SQL CLR Functionality Define Location.Distance()

27. 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charindex('|', @Str + '|') + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) - charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|') + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) - 1 ), charindex('|', @Str + '|') + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) - 1 ), substring(@Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|') + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1, charindex('|', @Str + '|') + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1, charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|') + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) - charindex('|', @Str + '|') + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) - charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|') + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) - 1 ), charindex('|', @Str + '|') + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) - 1 ), substring(@Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|') + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1, charindex('|', @Str + '|') + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1, charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|') + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) - charindex('|', @Str + '|') + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) - charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|') + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) - 1 ) charindex('|', @Str + '|') + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) - 1 ) declare @str varchar(200) select @Str = 'Microsoft Corporation|SQL Server|2003|SQL-CLR|2002- 08-20|11:32:00|Document|3.b.3' SELECT substring(@Str + '|', 0 + 1, charindex('|', @Str + '|', 0 + 1) - 0 - 1 ), charindex('|', @Str + '|', 0 + 1) - 0 - 1 ), substring(@Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|') + 1, charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|') + 1) - charindex('|', @Str + '|') + 1) - charindex('|', @Str + '|') - 1 ), charindex('|', @Str + '|') - 1 ), substring(@Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|') + 1) + 1, charindex('|', @Str + '|') + 1) + 1, charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|') + 1) + 1) - charindex('|', @Str + '|') + 1) + 1) - charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|') + 1) - 1 ), charindex('|', @Str + '|') + 1) - 1 ), substring(@Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|') + 1) + 1) + 1, charindex('|', @Str + '|') + 1) + 1) + 1, charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|') + 1) + 1) + 1) - charindex('|', @Str + '|') + 1) + 1) + 1) - charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|') + 1) + 1) - 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charindex('|', @Str + '|') + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) - charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|') + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) - 1 ), charindex('|', @Str + '|') + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) - 1 ), substring(@Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|') + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1, charindex('|', @Str + '|') + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1, charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|', charindex('|', @Str + '|') + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) + 1) - 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28. Sql Programming Model Splitting a string Public Shared Sub SplitString() Dim s As String Dim s As String s = "Microsoft Corporation|SQL Server|2003|SQL-CLR|2002-08- 20|11:32:00|Document|3.b.3" s = "Microsoft Corporation|SQL Server|2003|SQL-CLR|2002-08- 20|11:32:00|Document|3.b.3" Dim myArray() As String = Split(s, "|") Dim myArray() As String = Split(s, "|") End Sub The new way….

29. Moving to 64 bit 64 bit for Servers and workstations X64 and IA64 bit support Enable Yukon and ASP.NET Verifiable managed binaries just run! VS: Runs as a 32bit application You can develop, deploy, and debug 32 and 64bit applications

30. Agenda

31. Performance Objectives: make.NET an even greater programming platform Long-Term: make the performance characteristics of the CLR similar to native code Reduce marginal cost of additional managed processes Reduce startup time and working set NGen Compiles IL code to native code, saving results to disk Advantages: no need to recompile IL to native code, and class layout already set so better startup time Whidbey: Significant reductions in the amount of private, non-shareable working set OS: ‘no-Jit’ plan, all managed code will be NGened

32. Performance everywhere New, Performant APIs APIs for faster resource lookup Lightweight CodeGen: only generates essential code (contrast to Reflect Emit) Existing APIs Improved Cross AppDomain Remoting Between 1.1 and 200x faster. Biggest gains for simpler items (strings, integers, serializable objects) Delegate invoke performance has more than doubled AppDomain Footprints: significantly reduced UTF8Encoding: translation is 2.5x faster

33. TryParse

34. RAD Debugging Edit and Continue: Edit Code at runtime Allowed Edits: Examples Add private fields to a class Add private non-virtual methods to a class Change a function body, even while stepping Disallowed Edits: Examples Removing fields/methods Edits to generic classes Serialization will not recognize new fields Display Attributes for a better debugging experience

35. CLR Security New cryptography support PKI and PKCS7 support XML encryption support Enhanced support for X509 certificates Enhanced Application Security Permission Calculator Integration with ClickOnce Better SecurityException Debug-In-Zone Managed ACL Support

36. Agenda

37. Generics Why generics? Compile-time type checking Performance (no boxing, no downcasts) Reduced code bloat (typed collections) VB, C#, MC++ produce & consume generics Use generics freely in internal APIs Consider using generics in public APIs Generics are not yet in CLS To be CLS compliant, provide a non-generic API alternative Microsoft is actively pursuing standardization of generics in runtime and languages

38. Enhancing The Base Library Other Generics to look out for Nullable(Of T) Extremely useful for situations where null is a value, such as database valuetypes EventHandler EventHandler Saves on making your own EventHandlers Dim intVal as Nullable(Of Integer) = 5 If intVal.HasValue Then ‘ checks for a value delegate void EventHandler (Object sender, T e) where T : EventArgs;

39. Whidbey Tracing Features Pluggable Formatters Pre-Whidbey : Formatting of Trace information was predefined, and not controllable Whidbey : Predefined formatters (delimiter, xml) added, and you can make your own MySource;Error;13;Wrong key;;;;;;318361290184; Additional Listeners Pre-Whidbey : No Console listener, ASP had their own tracing mechanism Whidbey : Added Console listener. Integrated ASP tracing into our own, and added ETW listener

40. Whidbey Tracing Features Auto-generated Data Pre-Whidbey : Standard information such as timestamp or callstack would have to be explicitly generated Whidbey : An Admin can easily generate this data automatically, via config settings <add name="examplelog" type= … Simple Thread Identification Pre-Whidbey : specific threads were difficult to identify, and filter on Whidbey : Correlation ID has been added, which allows quick and easy identification of a thread, and simple subsequent filtering

41. Whidbey Tracing Features Listener Filtering Pre-Whidbey : Formatting of Trace information was predefined, and not controllable Whidbey : Assign filtering to listeners, so only certain messages are traced. This allows filtering on any property of a message. E.g., ID, TimeStamp, etc. Switches Pre-Whidbey : Couldn’t determine what tracing a component supported Whidbey : Support the ability to determine what tracing mechanisms a component has

42. MemoryPressure

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44. Resources BCL Blog http://weblogs.asp.net/bclteam BCL Website http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/clr/bcl/default.aspx BCL public mail alias bclpub@microsoft.comReference.NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference Applied Microsoft.Net Framework Programming

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