ECOOP / Tutorial 04

Introduction to .NET

Topic	Introduction to .NET
Goal	Goal of this talk is to introduce the platform Microsoft .NET as well as the programming language C#
Style	presentation + demos

Abstract

In 2000, Microsoft announced at the PDC conference in Orlando their new technology family called Microsoft .NET which will become the successor of existing technologies such as COM, COM+, ADO, ASP. Microsoft .NET is based on a virtual execution engine called Common Language Runtime (CLR) which provides functionality such as garbage collection, thread synchronization, or security. .NET programs may be written in various programming languages. They are compiled to an intermediate language, and dynamically converted to native code by the CLR. To support the development of different kinds of applications such as Web-based applications, Web-services, or fat clients the .NET Framework provides several thousand classes covering all types of functionality. While today, .NET is primarily focused on the Windows OS, implementations are currently developed by different parties to run on other operating aystems as well. Thus, Microsoft .NET is increasingly competing with the Java platform and is also becoming important for software developers.

Hence, the goal of the tutorial is to introduce the basic ingredients of .NET and the new programming language C#.

Presenter Profile

Michael Stal

Michael Stal is with Siemens Corporate Technology since 1991 where he is Senior Principal Engineer and leads a team on Middleware and Application Integration. Michael is co-author of the book series "Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture", editor-in-chief of the magazine JavaSPEKTRUM, and member of the OMG. In addition, he gave many talks in international conferences such as ECOOP, Middleware, OOPSLA, TOOLS and wrote many articles for magazines such as JOOP, iX, CACM, C++ Report, Object Magazine, Objektspektrum.