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                          I N R I A - Rocquencourt
                       Salle de conference du Bat 11

                         Vendredi 26 janvier, 10h30

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                                Eric Meijer
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                  Microsoft and Oregon Graduate Institute

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              A general overview of Microsoft's .NET framework
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Microsoft .NET extends the ideas of both the Internet and the operating
system by making the Internet itself the basis of a new operating system.
Ultimately, this will allow developers to create programs that transcend
device boundaries and fully harness the connectivity of the Internet in
their applications.

The Common Language Runtime (CLR) is key to the .NET famework. The CLR
allows you to define a class in Visual Basic and inherit from it in Cobol,
or to raise an exception in  JScript and handle it in Perl. Compilers that
support the CLR compile programs into the .NET intermediate language (MSIL).
This intermediate code is then verified and JIT-ed by the runtime into
executable code. The CLR also supports automatic garbage collection,
cross-language debugging, and interoperability with classic COM and the
Win32 platform.

In this talk course we will give a birds-eye overview of the whole .NET
framework and zoom in on several of its key features such as the
architecture of the execution engine, the role of meta-data and self
describing components in the runtime, and the common language subset (CLS)
of the runtime's type system.