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C# And It's Features

11. Jan, 2006 by admin 0 Comments

1. C# is a simple ,modern,object oriented language derived from C++ and Java.
2. It aims to combine the high productivity of Visual Basic and the raw power of C++.
3. It is a part of Microsoft Visual Studio7.0 .
4. Visual studio supports Vb,VC++,C++,Vbscript,Jscript.All of these languages provide access to the Microsft .NET platform.
5. .NET includes a Common Execution engine and a rich class library.
6. Microsofts JVM eqiv is Common language run time(CLR).
7. CLR accommadates more than one languages such as C#,VB.NET,Jscript,ASP.NET,C++.
8. Source code —>Intermediate Language code(IL) —> (JIT Compiler) Native code.
9.The classes and data types are common to all of the .NET languages.
10. We may develop Console application,Windows application,Webapplication using C#. 11. In C# microsoft has taken care of C++problems such as Memory management,pointers etc.
12.It support garbage collection, automatic memory management and a lot.

MAIN FEATURES OF C#

1.SIMPLE
1. Pointers are missing in C#.
2. Unsafe operations such as direct memory manipulation are not allowed.
3. In C# there is no usage of "::" or "->" operators.
4. Since it`s on .NET, it inherits the features of automatic memory management and garbage collection.
5. Varying ranges of the primitive types like Integer,Floats etc.
6. Integer values of 0 and 1 are no longer accepted as booleanvalues.Boolean values are pure true or false values in C# so no moreerrors of "="operator and "=="operator. "==" is used for comparisonoperation and "=" is used for assignment operation.

2.MODERN
1.C# has been based according to the current trend and is very powerfuland simple for building interoperable, scable, robust applications.
2. C# includes built in support to turn any component into a webservice that can be invoked over the internet from any applicationruning on any platform.

3.OBJECT ORIENTED
1. C# supports Data Encapsulation, inheritance,polymorphism, interfaces.
2. (int,float, double) are not objects in java but C# has introducesstructures(structs) which enable the primitive types to become objectsint i=1; String a=i Tostring(); //conversion (or) Boxing

4. TYPE SAFE
1. In C# we cannot perform unsafe casts like convert double to a boolean.
2. Value types (priitive types) are initialized to zeros and referencetypes (objects and classes are initialized to null by the compilerautomatically.
3. arrays are zero base indexed and are bound checked.
4. Overflow of types can be checked.

5. INTEROPERABILITY
1. C# includes native support for the COM and windows based applications.
2. Allowing restriced use of native pointers.
3. Users no longer have to explicityly implement the unknown and other COM interfacers, those features are built in.
4. C# allows the users to use pointers as unsafe code blocks to manipulate your old code.
5. Components from VB NET and other managed code languages and directlyt be used in C#.

6.SCALABLE AND UPDATEABLE
1. .NET has introduced assemblies which are self describing by means oftheir manifest. manifest establishes the assembly identity, version,culture and digital signature etc. Assemblies need not to be registeranywhere.
2. To scale our application we delete the old files and updating them with new ones. No registering of dynamic linking library.
3. Updating software components is an error prone task. Revisions madeto the code. can effect the existing program C# support versioning inthe language. Native support for interfaces and method overridingenable complex frame works to be developed and evolved over time.

CONCLUSION
C# is a modern, type safe programming language, object orientedlanguage that enables programmers to quickly and easily build solutionsfor the microsoft .NET platform