Programming .NET with C#

Don Box is a leading educator, recognized authority on the Component Object Model (COM), coauthor of the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) specification, and coiner of the term "COM is Love." He recently joined Microsoft as an architect in the Microsoft(R) .NET Developer and Platform Evangelism Group. Earlier in his career, Box cofounded DevelopMentor Inc., a component software think tank aimed at educating developers on the use of the COM, Java, and XML. A popular public speaker, Box is known for engaging audiences around the world, combining deep technical insight with often outrageous stunts.

(NOTE: Each chapter concludes with Where Are We?)
List of Figures.
List of Tables.
Foreword.
Preface.
1. The CLR as a Better COM. COM Revisited. The Common Language Runtime. The Evolution of the Programming Model.
2. Components. Modules Defined. Assemblies Defined. Assembly Names. Public Keys and Assemblies. The CLR Loader. Resolving Names to Locations. Versioning Hazards.
3. Type Basics. Type Fundamentals. Types and Initialization. Types and Interfaces. Types and Base Types.
4. Programming with Type. Types at Runtime. Programming with Metadata. Special Methods. Metadata and Extensibility.
5. Instances. Objects and Values Compared. Variables, Parameters, and Fields. Equivalence Versus Identity. Cloning. Boxing. Arrays. Object Life Cycle. Finalization.
6. Methods. Methods and JIT Compilation. Method Invocation and Type. Interfaces, Virtual Methods, and Abstract Methods. Explicit Method Invocation. Indirect Method Invocation and Delegates. Asynchronous Method Invocation. Method Termination.
7. Advanced Methods. Motivation. Messages as Method Calls. Stack and Message Transitions. Proxiable Types. Message Processing (Revisited). Objects and Context. Contexts and Interception.
8. Domains. Execution Scope and the CLR. Programming with AppDomains. AppDomain Events. AppDomains and the Assembly Resolver. AppDomains and Code Management. AppDomains and Objects (Revisited).
9. Security. Components and Security. Evidence. Policy. Permissions. Enforcement.
10. CLR Externals. Memory. Modes of Execution. Unmanaged Modules. Loading the CLR. The CLR as a COM Component.
Glossary.
Index.

Ein .NET-Experte zu sein, ohne dieses Buch gelesen zu haben, ist unmöglich! Don Box und Chris Sells (schon als Kult-Autoren von "Essential COM" (1998) bzw. "Effective COM" (1999) bzw. kleiderlosen Auftritten auf der TechEd bekannt) geben in diesem Buch eine Menge Insiderwissen über die .NET-Laufzeitumgebung preis, die man in der MSDN-Dokumentation sonst nicht findet. Natürlich kann man .NET-Anwendungen schreiben, ohne die Interna über Instanzierung, Methodenaufrufe und Application Domains zu kennen. Aber mit diesem Wissen ist es leichter, in Sonder- und Fehlerfällen den Ausweg zu finden. Das Buch enthält nicht nur reine Theorie in Textform, sondern auch viele Codebeispiele und anschauliche Grafiken. Das Buch ist auf dem Stand 2003, also .NET 1.1, stehen geblieben. Wertlos ist dennoch nicht, denn die hier beschriebenen Fundamente gibt es auch in .NET 2.0/3.0/3.5 noch.Holger Schwichtenberg