C# and the .NET Framework: The C++ Perspective

Chapter 1.1. A Quick Introduction to .NET

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Dispelling the Myth of the .NET Virtual Machine

• Microsoft Intermediate Language (IL)

• An Introduction to .NET Memory Management

• The .NET Framework Type System

• The .NET Framework System Objects

• C#—A New Programming Language

• How Objects Describe Themselves

• Component Object Model (COM) Interoperability

• Windows Forms, Web Controls, and GDI+

• Tools

• Assemblies, the .NET Packaging System

• Programming with Attributes

• Security

• Ready, Set, GO!

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