The Microsoft(R) .NET Framework allows developers to quickly build robust, secure ASP.NET Web Forms and XML Web service applications, Windows(R) Forms applications, tools, and types. Find out all about its common language runtime and learn how to leverage its power to build, package, and deploy any kind of application or component. APPLIED MICROSOFT .NET FRAMEWORK PROGRAMMING is ideal for anyone who understands object-oriented programming concepts such as data abstraction, inheritance, and polymorphism. The book carefully explains the extensible type system of the .NET Framework, examines how the runtime manages the behavior of types, and explores how an application manipulates types. While focusing on C#, it presents concepts applicable to all programming languages that target the .NET Framework. Topics covered include: . The .NET Framework architecture . Building, packaging, deploying, and administering applications and their types . Building and deploying shared assemblies . Type fundamentals . Primitive, reference, and value types . Operations common to all objects . Type members and accessibility . Constants, fields, methods, properties, and events . Working with text . Enumerated types and bit flags . Array types . Interfaces . Custom attributes . Delegates . Error handling with exceptions . Automatic memory management . AppDomains and reflectionIncludes coverage of C#