Advanced .NET programming (PRG038)

Sessions:

• Thursday, 15:40, SW2
• Tuesday, 17:20, S1 - taught by Pavel Jezek

Topics

1. Introduction to CLR, Rotor and Mono, Object Internals - Execution Engine's View of Objects, Strings and Arrays
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2. Metadata - Organization and Run-time Representation
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3. Intermediate Language Assembler
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4. Reflection.Emit, Lightweight Code Generation
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5. Delegates
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6. Compilers
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7. Generics
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8. Student Talk: Tomas Petricek - Introducing F# Programming Language
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9. Student Talk: Tomas Severyn - Hosting CLR inside SQL Server (SQL CLR)
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Links

Conferences, Workshops

• .NET Technologies Conference (International)

CLI and CLI Languages

• Phalanger - the PHP Language Compiler for .NET (homepage)
• Common Language Infrastructure Standard (ECMA 335)
• C# Specification (ECMA 334)
• C# 2.0 Specification (.doc)
• C++/CLI Specification (.pdf)
• Cω Language (homepage)
• Software4net CLRxLint - checked exception verifier for Microsoft .NET (homepage)

CLI Implementations and Tools

• Shared Source CLI - Rotor (download)
• Mono (homepage)
• Visual Studio 2005 Express (homepage)
• Visual Studio Extensibility Center (homepage)
• Lutz Roeder's Reflector for .NET - a decompiler (homepage)
• Jay Freeman's Anakrino - a decompiler (homepage)
• NDoc - XML Code Documentation Generator for .NET (homepage)

Papers, Articles, Talks

• Serge Lidin: IL Assembler Today and Tomorrow
• Mike Barnett, K. Rustan M. Leino, and Wolfram Schulte: The Spec# Programming System: An Overview (.pdf)
• John Gough: A Comparision of Virtual Machines (.pdf)
• Dare Obasanjo: A comparison of C# 1.0 and J2SE 1.4 (.htm)
• Wesner Moise: Pointers, Strings, Arrays Undocumented

Books

• Serge Lidin: Expert .NET 2.0 IL Assembler, Apress, 2006
• Serge Lidin: Inside Microsoft .NET IL Assembler, Microsoft Press, 2002
• Jeffrey Richter: Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming, Microsoft Press, 2002
• Damien Watkins, Mark Hammond, Brad Abrams: Programming in the .NET Environment, Addison-Wesley, 2003
• David Stutz: Shared Source CLI Essentials, O'Reilly, 2003