'NET Tech Talk Series

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.NET Tech Talk Series
Advanced C

• Thursday, February 27th, 2003

• Michael Dunn ( mdunn_at_cs.drexel.edu )
• Drexel University Student Ambassador to Microsoft
• Mid-Atlantic Student Ambassador Team Lead
• MCS Society Vice President

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Agenda

• Introduction
• Code demo
• Conclusion
• Questions
• Raffle

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Introduction

• Fourth in a series of .NET Technical Talks
  sponsored by Microsoft and Drexels Math
  Computer Science Society.
• Summary of last talk
• C has the safety of Java, ease of Visual Basic,
  and power of C. Design goals were to increase
  productivity, provide unified and extensible type
  system, support component-oriented programming,
  etc.
• As usual
• Please remember to fill out evaluations you
  cant win a door prize without a completed form
• Please hold detailed questions till the end

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Code demo

• Instead of telling you how great C is, I am
  going to show you. I have prepared five demo
  applications that I feel show its flexibility and
  power.

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Conclusions

• Types of C apps
• Console applications
• Windows applications
• Webservices
• Extensive support for (among others) networking,
  threading, encryption, XML parsing
• Just because its advanced doesnt mean it has to
  be difficult.

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Further references

• http//www.gotdotnet.com/team/csharp/
• http//msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/
• http//www.csharp.net
• http//msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp
• http//www.ecma.ch/ecma1/stand/ecma-334.htm
• http//msdn.microsoft.com/netframework
• .NET Framework SDK (includes C compiler)

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Next tech talk

• Next term
• Same time, same place
• Topic Please e-mail me your suggestions!
• More books, games, software and food

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Microsoft Campus Event

• Microsoft is sending one of their engineers to
  give a talk about new MS technologies
• April 15th, 2003?
• Giving away THREE X-Boxes that day
• Giving away approx. 100 Pocket PCs
• Giving away more books, software and games
• Everyone in attendance will get something

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Questions / Raffle

• Send your evaluations forward!