Windows.NET—what’s that?
September 14, 2005 – 2:31 pmWindows.NET will be the next server release from Microsoft. Here are a few features that are expected to debut in this OS:
* Larger memory support—memory block move and copy will improve performance.
* Application domain—applications are protected from each other.
* Common Language Runtime—will be bundled with the OS.
* IIS (Microsoft’s Web server software) moves into the kernel—this will improve performance but the chances of IIS bringing the server down will rise.
Why .NET?
Daniel Ingitaraj, senior marketing manager at Microsoft India says, “Class libraries are the same across languages. Earlier, ADO was always connected—it assumed the existence of a LAN. ADO.NET assumes a disconnected world (dial-up Internet).”
“Once you use pointers, you are out of .NET. C# marks pointer code as unsafe,” adds Ingitaraj. “ASP was traditionally easy to write but difficult to manage. There was no concept of reusing code, no Object-Oriented features, no caching. In ASP.NET there is a new file extension—.aspx. On the first run, the aspx is compiled and stored for future use—a DLL is created. If there is a change in the aspx source file, the CLR recompiles it,” says Ingitaraj.
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