Professional .NET Framework 2.0

Online Companion

by Joe Duffy ISBN: 0-764-57135-4 Publisher: Wrox Press Pages: ~640 Availability: April 3, 2006 Buy it now on Amazon.com.

Useful Links

• Wrox book page
• Code sample download (wroxdnf2.zip)
• Excerpt: Common Type System (CTS) -- from Chapter 2
• Excerpt: CLR Method Call Internals -- from Chapter 3

Further Reading & References

I used many external references while writing this book. They're listed below for convenience.

Chapter 1: Introduction

• None

Chapter 2: Common Type System

• Essential .NET, Volume 1. The Common Language Runtime; Don Box with Chris Sells; ISBN 0-201-73411-7. Addison-Wesley, 2003.
• Common Language Infrastructure Annotated Standard; James S. Miller and Susann Ragsdale; ISBN 0-321-15493-2; Addison-Wesley, 2004.
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs – 2nd Edition; Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman; ISBN 0-262-01153-0; MIT Press, 1996.
• Types and Programming Languages; Benjamin C. Pierce, ISBN 0262162091; MIT Press, 2002.
• Concepts of Programming Languages (7th Edition); Robert W. Sebesta; ISBN 0-321-33025-0; Addison-Wesley, 2005.
• Essentials of Programming Languages 2nd Edition; Daniel P. Friedman, Mitchell Wand, and Christopher T. Haynes; ISBN 0-262-06217-8; MIT Press, 2001.
• Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming; Peter Van Roy and Seif Haridi; ISBN 0-262-22069-5; MIT Press, 2004.
• Static Typing Where Possible, Dynamic Typing When Needed: The End of the Cold War Between Programming Languages; Erik Meijer and Peter Drayton; http://pico.vub.ac.be/~wdmeuter/RDL04/papers/Meijer.pdf, 2005.
• Professional .NET 2.0 Generics; Tod Golding; ISBN 0-764-55988-5; Wrox, 2005.
• C++ Templates: The Complete Guide; David Vandevoorde and Nicolai M. Josuttis; ISBN 0-201-73484-2; Addison-Wesley, 2002.
• Generative Programming: Methods, Tools, and Applications; Krzysztof Czarnecki and Ulrich Eisenecker; ISBN 0-201-30977-7; Addison-Wesley, 2000.
• Professional C# 2005; Christian Nagel, Bill Evjen, Jay Glynn, Morgan Skinner, Karli Watson, and Allen Jones; ISBN 0-764-57534-1; Wrox, 2005.
• The C# Programming Language; Anders Hejlsberg, Scott Wiltamuth, Peter Golde; ISBN 0-321-15491-6; Addison-Wesley, 2003.
• Professional VB 2005; Bill Evjen, Billy Hollis, Rockford Lhotka, Tim McCarthy, Rama Ramachandran, Bill Shelden, and Kent Sharkey; ISBN 0-764-57536-8; Wrox, 2005.
• The C Programming Language, 2nd Edition; Brian Kernighan and Dennis M. Richie; ISBN 0-131-10362-8; Prentice Hall, 1988.
• The C++ Programming Language, Special 3rd Edition; ISBN 0201700735; Bjarne Stroustrup; ISBN 0-201-70073-5 Addison-Wesley, 2000.
• The Design and Evolution of C++; Bjarne Stroustrup; ISBN 0-201-54330-3; Addison-Wesley, 1994.
• Dive Into Python; Mark Pilgrim; ISBN 1-590-59356-1; Apress, 2004.
• Practical Common Lisp; Peter Seibel; ISBN 1-590-59239-5; Apress, 2005.
• Common LISP: The Language; Guy Steele; ISBN 1-555-58041-6; Digital Press, 1984.
• The Scheme Programming Language: 3rd Edition; R. Kent Dybvig; ISBN 0-262-54148-3; MIT Press, 2003.
• Haskell: The Craft of Functional Programming (2nd Edition); Simon Thompson; ISBN 0-201-34275-8; Addison-Wesley, 1999.

Chapter 3: Inside the CLR

• Shared Source CLI Essentials; David Stutz, Ted Neward, and Geoff Shilling; ISBN 0-596-00351-X; O’Reilly, 2003.
• Virtual Machines: Versatile Platforms for Systems and Processes; Jim Smith and Ravi Nair; ISBN 1-558-60910-5; Morgan Kaufmann, 2005.
• Garbage Collection: Algorithms for Automatic Dynamic Memory Management; Richard Jones and Rafael Lins; ISBN 0-471-94148-4; John Wiley & Sons, 1996.
• Microsoft Windows Internals, Fourth Edition: Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000; Mark E. Russinovich and David A. Solomon; ISBN 0-735-61917-4; Microsoft Press, 2004.
• Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface; David A. Patterson and John L. Hennesy; ISBN 1-558-60604-1; Morgan Kaufmann, 2004.
• Operating System Concepts; Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin, and Greg Gagne; ISBN 0-471-69466-5; John Wiley & Sons, 2004.
• Operating Systems: Design and Implementation (Second Edition); Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Albert S. Woodhull; ISBN 0-136-38677-6; Prentice Hall, 1997.
• Modern Operating Systems (2nd Edition); Andrew Tanenbaum; ISBN 0-130-31358-0; Prentice Hall, 2001.

Chapter 4: Assemblies, Loading & Deployment

• Speed: NGen Revs Up Your Performance with Powerful New Features; Reid Wilkes; MSDN Magazine, April 2005; http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/04/NGen/default.aspx.
• Essential .NET, Volume 1. The Common Language Runtime; Don Box with Chris Sells; ISBN 0-201-73411-7. Addison-Wesley, 2003.
• Common Language Infrastructure Annotated Standard; James S. Miller and Susann Ragsdale; ISBN 0-321-15493-2; Addison-Wesley, 2004.
• Advanced .NET Programming; Simon Robinson; ISBN 1-861-00629-2. Wrox, 2002.
• Writing Faster Managed Code: Know What Things Cost; Jan Gray; http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/fastmanagedcode.asp.
• NGen Overview; Jason Zander; http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonz/archive/2003/09/24/53574.aspx.
• Rico Mariani’s Weblog; http://blogs.msdn.com/ricom/.

Chapter 5: Fundamental Types

• Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries; Krzysztof Cwalina and Brad Abrams; ISBN 0-321-24675-6; Addison-Wesley, 2005.
• .NET Framework Standard Annotated Reference, Volume 1: Base Class Library and Extended Numerics Library; Brad Abrams; ISBN 0-321-15489-4; Addison-Wesley, 2004.
• .NET Framework Standard Annotated Reference, Volume 2: Networking Library, Reflection Library, and XML Library; Brad Abrams and Tamara Abrams; ISBN 0-321-19445-4; Addison-Wesley, 2005.
• The Common Language Infrastructure Annotated Standard; James S. Miller and Susann Ragsdale; ISBN 0-321-15493-2; Addison-Wesley, 2003.
• The C# Programming Language; Anders Hejlsberg, Scott Wiltamuth and Peter Golde; ISBN 0-321-15491-6; Addison-Wesley, 2003.
• CLR Inside Out: Base Class Library Tips and Tricks; Kit George; MSDN Magazine, January 2006; http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/01/CLRInsideOut/.
• New Recommendations for Using Strings in .NET 2.0; Dave Fetterman; 2005; http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/StringsinNET20.asp.

Chapter 6: Arrays & Collections

• The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1, Volume 2, and Volume 3 (3rd Edition); Donald E. Knuth; ISBN 0-201-89683-4, 0-201-89684-2, 0-201-89685-0. Addison-Wesley, 1997.
• Introduction to Algorithms, Second Edition; Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein; ISBN 0-262-03293-7. MIT Press, 2001.
• STL Tutorial and Reference Guide: C++ Programming with the Standard Template Library (2nd Edition); David R. Musser, Gillmer J. Derge, Atul Saini; ISBN 0-201-37923-6. Addison Wesley, 2001.
• Professional .NET 2.0 Generics; Tod Golding; ISBN 0-764-55988-5; Wrox, 2005.
• STL.NET Primer; Stanley B. Lippman; http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/stl-netprimer.asp, 2004.

Chapter 7: IO, Files & Networking

• Advanced Windows; Jeffrey Richter; ISBN 1-572-31548-2; Microsoft Press, 1997.
• Programming Windows, Fifth Edition; Charles Petzold; ISBN 1-572-31995-X; Microsoft Press, 1998.
• Windows System Programming (3rd edition); Johnson M. Hart; ISBN 0-321-25619-0; Addison-Wesley, 2004.
• Microsoft Windows Internals, Fourth Edition: Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000; Mark E. Russinovich and David A. Solomon; ISBN 0-735-61917-4; Microsoft Press, 2004.
• Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms; Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Maarten van Steen; ISBN 0-130-88893-1; Prentice Hall, 2002.
• Computer Networks; Andrew S. Tanenbaum; ISBN 0-130-66102-3; Prentice Hall, 2002.
• TCP/IP Sockets in C#: Practical Guide for Programmers; David Makofske, Michael J. Donahoo, and Kenneth L. Calvert; ISBN 0-124-66051-7; Morgan Kaufmann, 2004.
• Advanced .NET Remoting, Second Edition; Ingo Rammer and Mario Szpuszta; ISBN 1-590-59417-7; Apress, 2004.
• Microsoft .NET Distributed Applications: Integrating XML Web Services and .NET Remoting; Matthew MacDonald; ISBN 0-735-61933-6; Microsoft Press, 2003.
• Understanding Web Services: XML, WSDL, SOAP, and UDDI; Eric Newcomer; ISBN 0-201-75081-3; Addison-Wesley, 2002.

Chapter 8: Internationalization

• Developing International Software, Second Edition; Dr. International; ISBN 0-735-61583-7; Microsoft Press, 2002.
• A Practical Guide to Localization (Language International World Dictionary); Bert Esselink; ISBN 1-588-11006-0; John Benjamins Publishing Co., 2002.
• Unicode Demystified: A Practical Programmer’s Guide to the Encoding Standard; Richard Gillam; ISBN 0-201-70052-2; Addison Wesley, 2002.
• Developing Secure International Managed Code; Anthony Moore; http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/clr/bcl/techarticles/techarticles/writingculturesafemanagedcode.doc.
• New Recommendations for Using Strings in .NET 2.0; Dave Fetterman; http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/StringsinNET20.asp; May, 2005.
• Resources in Applications; .NET Framework Developer’s Guide; http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconcreatingsatelliteassemblies.asp.
• Unicode Supported Languages; http://www.unicode.org/onlinedat/languages_scripts.html.

Chapter 9: Security

• The .NET Developer's Guide to Windows Security; Keith Brown; ISBN 0-321-22835-9; Addison-Wesley; 2004. (Also available for free online at http://pluralsight.com/wiki/default.aspx/Keith.GuideBook.HomePage.)
• Writing Secure Code, Second Edition; Michael Howard, David C. LeBlanc; ISBN 0-735-61722-8; Microsoft Press, 2002.
• Threat Modeling; Frank Swiderski, Window Snyder; ISBN 0-735-61991-3; Microsoft Press, 2004.
• 19 Deadly Sins of Software Security: Programming Flaws and How to Fix Them; Michael Howard, David LeBlanc, John Viega; ISBN 0-072-26085-8; McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2005.
• Improving Web Application Security: Threats and Countermeasures; Microsoft Corporation; ISBN 0-735-61842-9; Microsoft Press, 2003.
• Find Out What’s New with Code Access Security in the .NET Framework 2.0; Mike Downen; MSDN Magazine, November, 2005 http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/11/CodeAccessSecurity/default.aspx.

Chapter 10: Threads, AppDomains & Processes

• Concurrent Programming in Java™: Design Principles and Patterns (2nd Edition); Doug Lea; ISBN 0-201-31009-0. Addison-Wesley, 1999.
• Patterns for Parallel Programming; Timothy G. Mattson, Beverly A. Sanders and Berna L. Massingill; ISBN 0-321-22811-1. Addison-Wesley, 2004.
• Fundamentals of Parallel Computing; Harry F. Jordan, Gita Alaghband and Harry E. Jordan; ISBN 0-139-01158-7. Prentice Hall, 2002.
• Multithreading Applications in Win32: The Complete Guide to Threads; Jim Beveridge and Robert Wiener; ISBN 0-201-44234-5. Addison-Wesley, 1996.
• Windows System Programming; Johnson M. Hart; ISBN 0-321-25619-0. Addison-Wesley, 2004.
• Essential COM; Don Box; ISBN 0-201-63446-5. Addison-Wesley, 1997.
• Microsoft Windows Internals, Fourth Edition: Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000; Mark E. Russinovich and David A. Solomon; ISBN 0-735-61917-4; Microsoft Press, 2004.
• Concurrency: What Every Dev Must Know About Multithreaded Apps; Vance Morrison; MSDN Magazine, August 2005; http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/08/Concurrency/.
• Memory Models: Understanding the Impact of Low-Lock Techniques in Multithreaded Apps; Vance Morrison; MSDN Magazine, October 2005; http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/10/MemoryModels/.
• Atomicity & Asynchronous Exception Failures; Joe Duffy; March 2005; http://www.bluebytesoftware.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=c1898a31-a0aa-40af-871c-7847d98f1641.
• Apartments and Pumping in the CLR; Chris Brumme; February 2004; http://blogs.msdn.com/cbrumme/archive/2004/02/02/66219.aspx.
• The Free Lunch is Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software; Herb Sutter; Dr. Dobb’s Journal, March 2005; http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm.

Chapter 11: Unmanaged Interoperability

• .NET and COM: The Complete Interoperability Guide; Adam Nathan; ISBN 0-672-32170-X; Sams, 2002.
• Essential COM; Don Box; ISBN 0-201-63446-5; Addison Wesley, 1997.
• Transactional COM+: Building Scalable Applications; Tim Ewald; ISBN 0-201-61594-0; Addison Wesley, 2001.
• Effective COM: 50 Ways to Improve your COM and MTS-based Applications; Brown, Keith; Ewald, Tim; Sells, Chris; Box, Don; ISBN 0-201-37968-6; Addison Wesley, 1998.
• COM and .NET Component Services; Juval Lowy; ISBN 0-596-00103-7; O’Reilly, 2001.
• Enterprise Services with the .NET Framework: Developing Distributed Business Solutions with .NET Enteprrise Services; Christian Nagel; ISBN 0-321-24673-X; Addison Wesley, 2005.
• House of COM: Is COM Dead?; Don Box; MSDN Magazine, December 2000; http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/1200/com/.
• Customizing the .NET Framework Common Language Runtime; Stephen Pratschner; ISBN 0-735-61988-3; Microsoft Press, 2005.
• High Availability: Keep Your Code Running with the Reliability Features of the .NET Framework; Stephen Toub; MSDN Magazine, October 2005; http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/10/Reliability/.
• Advanced Windows; Jeffrey Richter; ISBN 1-572-31548-2; Microsoft Press, 1997.
• Programming Windows, Fifth Edition; Charles Petzold; ISBN 1-572-31995-X; Microsoft Press, 1998.
• Windows System Programming (3rd Edition); Johnson M. Hart; ISBN 0-321-25619-0; Addison Wesley, 2004.

Chapter 12: Tracing & Diagnostics

• BCLTeam Weblog: A Tracing Primer (Parts I, IIa, IIb, IIc); Mike Rousos; http://blogs.msdn.com/bclteam/archive/2005/03/15/396431.aspx, http://blogs.msdn.com/bclteam/archive/2005/09/21/472015.aspx, http://blogs.msdn.com/bclteam/archive/2005/09/21/472021.aspx, http://blogs.msdn.com/bclteam/archive/2005/09/21/472049.aspx.
• Bugslayer: Unhandled Exceptions and Tracing in the .NET Framework 2.0; John Robbins; MSDN Magazine, July 2005; http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/07/Bugslayer/.

Chapter 13: Regular Expressions

• Mastering Regular Expressions; Jeffrey Friedl; ISBN 0-596-00289-0. O’Reilly, 2002.
• Beginning Regular Expressions; Andrew Watt; ISBN 0-764-57489-2. Wrox, 2005.
• The Unicode Standard 4.0; The Unicode Consortium; ISBN 0-321-118578-1. Addison-Wesley, 2003. (Also available online at http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/.)

Chapter 14: Dynamic Programming

• Reflection: Dodge Common Performance Pitfalls to Craft Speedy Applications; Joel Pobar; MSDN Magazine, July 2005; http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/07/Reflection/.
• Compiling for the Common Language Runtime; John Gough; ISBN 0-130-62296-6. Prentice Hall, 2001.
• Inside Microsoft .NET IL Assembler; Serge Lidin; ISBN 0-735-61547-0. Microsoft Press, 2002.
• Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools; Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, Jeffrey D. Ullman; ISBN 0-201-10088-6. Addison Wesley, 1986.
• Programming Language Pragmatics; Michael L. Scott; ISBN 0-126-33951-1. Morgan Kaufmann, 2005.
• Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation; Steven Muchnick; ISBN 1-558-60320-4. Morgan Kaufmann, 1997.

Chapter 15: Transactions

• Principals of Transaction Processing; Philip A. Bernstein, Eric Newcomer; ISBN 1-558-60415-4. Morgan Kaufmann, 1997.
• Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques; Jim Gray, Andreas Reuter; ISBN 1-558-60190-2. Morgan Kaufmann, 1993.
• Transactional Information Systems: Theory, Algorithms, and the Practice of Concurrency Control; Gerhard Weikum, Gottfried Vossen; ISBN 1-558-60508-8. Morgan Kaufmann, 2001.
• Enterprise Services with the .NET Framework: Developing Distributed Business Solutions with .NET Enterprise Services; Christian Nagel; ISBN 0-321-24673-X. Addison-Wesley, 2005.
• COM and .NET Enterprise Services; Juval Lowy; ISBN 0-596-00103-7. O’Reilly, 2001.
• Transactional COM+: Building Scalable Applications; Tim Ewald; ISBN 0-201-61594-0. Addison-Wesley, 2001.
• Can’t Commit? Volatile Resource Managers in .NET Bring Transactions to the Common Type; Juval Lowy; MSDN Magazine, December 2005; http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/12/transactions/.

© Joe Duffy, 2005