C# Programming - An overviewby Jini M R (Software Programmer, Excellone Technologies)
C# (Pronounced C Sharp), an object oriented programming
language was introduced by Microsoft in June 2000. The software
developers who are familiar with C# programming can quickly construct
a whole range of applications for the new Microsoft.NET development
environment. It is a part of the .NET suite which facilitates tools
and services that fully exploit both computing and communications.
The characteristics of C#:
- Elegant object oriented design: The concurrence
with these golden principles of object orientation, encapsulation,
inheritance and polymorphism, has made C# programming a great
choice for architecting a wide range of components from high-level
business objects to system - level software applications. The
C# programming language constructs converts these components into
XML Web services, which permits them to be invoked across the
Internet, from any language running on any operating system.
- Safety and Productivity: In C#, the unsafe code
must be explicitly declared with the modifier as 'unsafe' to prevent
accident features. Moreover, the compiler and execution engine
works hand in hand to ensure that the unsafe code is not executed
in an unreliable environment.
- Name spaces: C# does its job in a hierarchical
name space model. Namespaces are C# program elements which help
to organize programs. Objects are grouped into name spaces and
a particular namespace has to be included in a software program
to access the classes and objects within it.
- Security: In C#, unsafe codes must be explicitly
declared unsafe by the modifier to prevent accident features.
Moreover the compiler and execution engine work hand in hand and
ensure that an unsafe code is not executed in an unreliable environment.
- Garbage collection: The memory management feature
leads all managed objects. Garbage collection is a feature of
.NET that C# uses during runtime.
- Data types: This is a regulatory type language
set rules to maintain the integrity of data stored in it. Three
types of data types include value types, reference types, boxing
and unboxing. There are also simple types namely integral type,
Boolean type, char type, floating- point type, decimal type, structure
type, and enumeration type.
- Versioning: C# programming supports this versioning.
. NET solves the versioning problem and enables the software developer
to specify version dependencies between different pieces of software.
- Indexes: C# has indexes which help to access value
in a class with an array like syntax.
- Exception handling: . NET standardizes the exception
handling across languages. C# offers the conditional keyword to
control the flaw and make the code more readable.
- Error Elimination: C# programming eliminates costly
software programming errors, through garbage collection which
are automatically initialized by the environment type safe variables.
C# makes it simple for the software developer to write and maintain
programs that give solutions for complex business problems.
- Flexibility & Power: C# has the flexibility which
permits typed, extensible metadata that can be applied to any
object. A project architect can define domain-specific attributes
and apply them to any language, element, classes, interfaces and
so on.
- Extensive inter-operability: Almost all enterprise
software applications can be managed easily by type-safe environment.
This extensive inter-operability makes C# the obvious choice for
most of the software developers.
To conclude, the inference is that C# programming is a sophisticated
language for the sophisticated world, which is productive, object
oriented and lessens development, while keeping in pace with the
programming heritage of C++. This brand new language facilitates
programmers to develop, fast and easy solutions for .NET development
environment. And it does it all by considerably reducing the increased
development costs, providing flexibility and productivity.
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