Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
Simplified Deployment
Deploying programs written for the .NET Framework can be considerably easier than it was
previously, for the following reasons:
.NET programs do not need to be registered with the registry. In the simplest case, a pro-
gram just needs to be copied to the target machine.
Side-by-side execution
allows different versions of a DLL to exist on the same machine.
This means that every executable can have access to the version of the DLL for which it
was built.
Type Safety
The CLR checks and ensures the type safety of parameters and other data objects—even
between components written in different programming languages.
The Base Class Library
The .NET Framework supplies an extensive base class library, called, not surprisingly, the
Base
Class Library (BCL)
. It is also called the
Framework Class Library
. You can use this extensive set
of available code when writing your own programs. Some of the categories of base classes pro-
vided are as follows:
General base classes
: Provide you with an extremely powerful set of tools for a wide range
of programming tasks, such as string manipulation, security, and encryption
Windows Forms classes
: For building Windows GUI applications
ASP.NET classes
: For building web-based applications
ADO.NET classes
: For database manipulation
