M.Sc.

(Computer Science)
SEM-II
Course Code : 19ScCmpP206
Course Name : DOT NET

Presented By: Smita Achalkar

Modern College of Arts,Science and

Commerce ,Pune-5
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Yesterday
Yesterday We We
hadhad learned-- the following points which are
discussed
mentioned:
Introduction of ASP.NET
Features of ASP.NET
Advantage of ASP.NET
IIS Server
Features of IIS
Working of IIS with ASP.NET Application
Working With IDE
Web Form/Web Page
Components of Web Form
Now we shall start the next Lecture ……….
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Points to be covered in today’s Lecture

1.3Common Language Runtime

1.3.1Overview
1.3.2 Elements of .NET application
1.3.3Memory Management
1.3.4 Garbage Collector : Faster Memory allocation,
Optimizations
1.4 Common Language Integration
1.4.1 Common type system
1.4.2 Reflection API
1.5 User and Program Interface
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Framework delivers runtime environment called Common Language

1.3Common
Runtime (CLR).Language Runtime

It offers an environment to run all the .Net Programs.

The code which runs below the CLR is called as Managed Code. Developers

not required on managing the memory if the programs are running below

the CLR as it delivers memory management and thread management.

Programmatically, when our program requires memory, CLR assigns the

memory for scope and de-allocates the memory if the scope is

accomplished. Language Compilers (e.g. C#, VB.Net, J#) will translate the

Code to Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL) and then transformed to

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Native Code by CLR as shown in following figure,
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Function of CLR

1. Code conversion:-
CLR provides the services and runtime environment to the
MSIL code. Internally CLR includes the JIT(Just-In-Time)
compiler which converts the MSIL code to machine code which
1. further. executed by CPU.

2. Exception Handling:-
CLR supports a standard exception-handling
mechanism that works across all languages, allowing
every program to use a common error-handling
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3. Type Safety :-
Types used in the application are verified with CTS or CLS
standards support by CLR .This provides type safety.

1. 4. Garbage
. collection:-
The memory of unused objects is freed
automatically with the help of garbage collector.

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5. Security :-
CLR converts the MSIL code into the native code .it performs
various security checks at runtime to make sure that the code is
safe to execute and that the code is not breaching any security
1.
requirements.
.
CLR provides secure execution for .NET
application. CLR use Role-Based Security and Code Access
Security for providing Secure Code Execution
6. Language Independence:--
CLR ensures language interoperability using
common type System(CTS).
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.NET Execution Model/.NET compilation Process:-

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.NET Execution Model/.NET compilation Process:-

The Code Execution Process involves the following two stages:
1. Compiler time process.
2. Runtime process.

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.NET Execution Model/.NET compilation Process:-

1. Compiler time process

The .Net framework has one or more language compilers, such as Visual
Basic, C#, Visual C++, JScript, or one of many third-party compilers such as an
Eiffel, Perl, or COBOL compiler.

Anyone of the compilers translates your source code into Microsoft

1. Intermediate Language
. (MSIL) code.

For example, if you are using the C# programming language to develop an

application, when you compile the application, the C# language compiler will
convert your source code into Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL) code.
In short, VB.NET, C#, and other language compilers generate MSIL code. (In
other words, compiling translates your source code into MSIL and generates
the required metadata.)
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.NET Execution Model/.NET compilation Process:-

1. Compiler time process
Currently "Microsoft Intermediate Language" (MSIL) code is also known as the
"Intermediate Language" (IL) Code or "Common Intermediate Language" (CIL)
Code. 
1. SOURCE CODE. -----.NET COMLIPER------> BYTE CODE (MSIL + META DATA)

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2. Runtime process.
The Common Language Runtime (CLR) includes a JIT compiler for
converting MSIL to native code.

1. The JIT Compiler

. in CLR converts the MSIL code into native
machine code that is then executed by the OS.
During the runtime of a program, the "Just in Time" (JIT) compiler
of the Common Language Runtime (CLR) uses the Metadata and
converts Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL) into native code. 

BYTE CODE (MSIL + META DATA) ----- Just-In-Time (JIT)

compiler------> NATIVE CODE
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. 1.3.3Memory Management
Allocation Memory

Reserves a adjacent region of address space for the

process called managed heap.
Garbage Collector (GC)
It keeps a pointer to the address where the next object in
the heap will be allocated.

Reference types are allocation on the managed heap.

Allocating and access memory from the managed heap is

faster
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. 1.3.3Memory Management
Deallocating Memory

When GC performs a collection ,it refers the memory for objects

that are no longer being used.
Garbage Collector (GC)
Roots of each application, either refers to an object on the managed
heap or is set to null.

GC can access the list of active roots that JIT complier and the
runtime environment.

For unmanaged resource, we explicitly have to call the Dispose

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1.3.4 Garbage Collector : Faster Memory
allocation, Optimizations
Garbage Collector (GC)

is one of the services that the CLR provides

Garbage Collector (GC)
Manage the allocation and release of memory of
an application.

Provides some ease to the developers in writing

the code.
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1.4 Common Language Integration

1.4.1 Common Type System(CTS)

The Common Type System (CTS) standardizes the data types of
all programming languages using .NET under the umbrella
of .NET to a common data type for easy and smooth
1. communication
. among these .NET languages.

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The intrinsic CTS data types

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The common type system supports two general
categories of types, each of which is further
divided into Value Types and Reference Types:-
1. .
Reference Types :-store a reference to the
memory address on the stack but the actual
value is stored on heap.
e.g.:-int[] Arr=new int[20];
In the above code the space required for the 2-
integers that make up the array is allocated
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1.4.1 Common Type System(CTS)
The common type system supports two general
categories of types, each of which is further
1.
divided. into Value Types and Reference Types:-

Value types:-directly contain the data. Actual

data is always stored on stack.
e.g.:- int x=10;
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Type Casting or Type Conversion:-

1. .
Conversion between data types can be done in two
ways by casting:

Implicit casting
Explicit casting

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Type Casting or Type Conversion:-

Implicit casting
-Implicit casting doesn't require a casting operator. This
casting is normally used when converting data from
1. smaller integral
. types to larger or derived types to the base
type

int x = 123; double y = x;

In the above statement, the conversion of data from int to

double is done implicitly, in other words programmer don't
need to specify any type operators.
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Type Casting or Type Conversion:-

Explicit casting

Explicit casting requires a casting operator. This casting is

normally used when converting a double to int or a base
1. type to a .derived type.

double y = 123; int x = (int)y;

In the above statement, we have to specify the type

operator (int) when converting from double to int else the
compiler will throw an error
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Conversion Methods
 Type Casting operator(explicit
casting)
Convert Class using
1. .
Int.Parse()
Int.TryParse()

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Conversion Methods
Int.Parse() Convert Class Int.TryParse()
It is used to convert It is used to convert It is used to convert
string to int any datatype to int string to int
1. .
Can not handle null Can handle null values Can handle null values
values
Will not check whether Will not check Will check whether
the type of parsing is whether the type of the type of parsing is
valid or invalid parsing is valid or valid or invalid
invalid

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1.4 Common Language Integration
1.4.2 Reflection API
Reflection is the process of finding out about the internals
Of an application without having access to the source code. You can
use reflection to find all classes in an assembly and all the methods,
properties and events that might to be supported by each of those
1. classes. .

Reflection allows a c# program to inspect and manipulate itself from

the outside looking in. You can inspect all the information about a
class and also use reflection techniques to dynamically invoke
methods of the class at runtime.

Reflection allows you to view the information in the metadata

segment of your assemblies at runtime.

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1.5 User and Program Interface

These tools enable users to develop user-friendly desktop-

based as well as web-based applications using a wide variety
of languages on the .NET platform.

Window Forms
1. Web.Forms
Console Application

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Integrated Development Environment

• An Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is a software

application that offers complete accommodations to computer
developers for software development.
1. .
• In general, an IDE is a Graphical User Interface (GUI) based
work surface which assist the programmer in building software
applications by provided that tools like a source code editor,
build automation tools, a debugger etc. at hand.

• Visual Studio is the greatest frequently used IDE. C#.NET is

just an editor, providing by Microsoft to support programmer
to write .NET Programs simply.
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Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

1. Start. Page Window of Visual Studio 2010