Lecture 39 Case Study C# and .NET.ppt

Lecture 39: Case Study: C# and .NET COMP 144 Programming Language Concepts Spring 2002 C# and .NET In 2000, Microsoft releases a new language, C#, heavily influences by Java and C++ Is there anything new from the programming languages point of view? Microsoft is making it the key stone in their new development strategy (.NET) Big bucks… big evil… Let’s have a brief look at it, so you can put it our resumes or simply laugh at Microsoft, depending on your point of view about the world I’m neutral (yeah, right…) Hello World Java C# Motivation for C# .NET New development framework that promises to simplify Windows programming COM/DCOM is hard to learn Heavy on component orientation Language independence run-time system Common Language Run-time (CLR) Common Language Runtime It can execute .NET program in an intermediate representation, the Common Language Interface (CLI) CLR is designed to work well in a multi-language environment Java Virtual Machines is rather Java-oriented CLR is supposed to work well with imperative programming languages (e.g., C, Pascal) and statically typed object oriented languages (e.g., C#, Eiffel) Many language have compilers for CLR at different stages of development, including Python, Perl, Scheme, Haskell, Prolog,… Motivation for C# Rapid application development (RAD) Visual development tools/languages such as Visual Basic and Delphi, are very popular and useful Remember Java Beans lecture C# is optimized for such development model Platform-independence CLR and CLI Access to platform-native resources A more direct approach than the one taken by Java Native Interface (JNI) C# SyntaxComparison with Java If/then/else C# Syntax Switch C# Syntax While Do/While C# Syntaxforeach C# Syntax Break/Continue Return C# Syntax Object instantiation Exclusive access C# Syntaxtry/catch/finally C# Syntax Class definition Interface definition Interface implementation Other C# Features C# provides Java-style garbage collection C# implements