COBOL and Visual Basic on .NET: A Guide for the Reformed Mainframe Programmer

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GAC. See Global Assembly Cache (GAC)

garbage collector (GC), 249. See also common language runtime (CLR)

boxing ValueType objects in, 256 “259

COBOL for .NET sample program, 252 “253

creating performance counter components , 264

in COBOL for .NET, 265 “266

in Visual Basic .NET, 267 “269

memory management in, 249 “250

method, 260 “262

monitoring, 262 “263

with Application Center Test (ACT), 262 “263

with Performance Monitor (Perfmon) tool, 262 “263, 271 “277

with Windows Task Manager, 262 “263

in .NET Framework, 250 “251

schedule, 260 “262

Visual Basic .NET sample program, 254 “256

Garfunkel, Jerome, 7

Gartner (analyst firm), 5

Gates, Bill, 4

GC. See garbage collector (GC)

GC.Collect method, 261

GDI+, 341

Get Started screen, of Start Page (VS .NET), 140 “143

GETMAIN command, 247, 262

GetType method, 284

GetXML method, 413 “418

GetXmlSchema method, 433

GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) files, 339

Global Assembly Cache (GAC), 473

in Enterprise Services (COM+), 764

in .NET applications, 640 “642

placing serviced components into, 764

and software installations, 645

global configuration file, 126

Global XML Web Services Architecture (GXA), 504, 544

Global.asax files, 489, 555

globally unique identifier (GUID), 816

Google Web APIs Developer s Kit, 547

GotDotNet (Web site), 594

GotFocus event, 515

goto logic, 943 “944

graphic artists , 451

graphic data, 340 “341

graphical user interfaces (GUIs), 453

Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) files, 339

greater-than symbol (>), 922

GUID (globally unique identifier), 816

GUIs (graphical user interfaces), 453

GXA (Global XML Web Services Architecture), 504, 544