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Chapter 4: The CLR (Common Languages Runtime)
Chapter 3< > Chapter 5
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Table of content:
Application Domains (AppDomain)
Introduction
Threads and AppDomains
Unloading an AppDomain
AppDomains and isolation
The System.AppDomain class
Hosting several applications in a single process
Running some code inside the context of another AppDomain
Events of the AppDomain class
Sharing information between the AppDomains of a same process
Loading the CLR inside a Windows process with the runtime host
mscorsvr.dll and mscorwks.dll
The mscorlib.dll assembly
Introduction to the runtime host
Hosting several versions of the CLR on a single machine
Loading the CLR with the CorBindToRuntimeEx() function
Creating a custom runtime host
Tuning the CLR from a custom runtime host
Characteristics of the SQL Server 2005 runtime host
Profiling the execution of your .NET applications
Locating and loading assemblies
When does the CLR attempt to locate an assembly?
The location algorithm used by the CLR
Diagram of the location algorithm
The <assemblyBinding> element of the configuration file
The Shadow Copy mechanism
Resolving types at runtime
Loading an assembly explicitly or implicitly
Referencing an assembly at compile time
An example
Diagram of the types resolving algorithm
JIT compilation (Just In Time)
Portable binary code
Introduction to Just In Time compilation
The ngen.exe tool
Performance counters and JIT compilation
The garbage collector (GC) and the managed heap
Introduction to garbage collecting
Problems encountered by the garbage collecting algorithms
The .NET GC
Step 1: finding the root objects
Step 2: building the tree of active objects
Step 3: deallocating inactive objects
Step 4: heap defragmentation
Step 5: recomputing physical addresses used by managed references
Good practices
The special heap for big objects
Garbage collection in a multithreaded environment
Weak references
Using the System.GC class to influence the GC behaviour
CLR facilities to make your code more reliable
Asynchronous exceptions and managed code reliability
Constrained Execution Regions (CER)
How to define your own CERs?
Memory Gates
Reliability contracts
Critical finalizers
Critical regions
CLI and CLS
Constraints which must be satisfied by .NET languages
CLI and CLS from developer's perspective
Copyright Patrick Smacchia 2006 2007
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