COBOL and Visual Basic on .NET: A Guide for the Reformed Mainframe Programmer
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NamedPermissionSets property, 728, 733 “735
namespaces, 207
browsing, 210 “211
configuration, 718 “720
custom, 208
functional hierarchy of, 208 “209
for graphic data, 340 “341
importing, 234
.NET Remoting, 844
XML, 434 “440
NameValueCollection class, 564
NCR Corp., 598
NCR (No Carbon Required) paper, 598
.NET, 29 “58. See also .NET Dataset; .NET Framework; .NET programming; .NET Remoting
accessing data, 37 “40
accessing text files in, 326 “327
advanced .NET technologies, 46 “51
COM+application creation, 48
distributed and concurrent processing, 49 “50
interoperability, 50 “51
overview, 46 “47
secure and configurable applications, 47 “48
Application Blocks for, 395
as career choice, 55 “57
class inheritance, 948
class libraries, 34 “35
Compact Framework, 53
data types, 176 “180, 948
database programming in, 377 “378
legacy-style, 380 “384
.NET-style, 384 “405
default assemblies, 211 “212
development environment, 34
directives, 682 “683
Enterprise Servers, 54 “55
exception handling, 900
Fujitsu support for, 13
interfacing with user , 40 “46
enhanced state and event management, 44 “45
improved deployment, 46
overview, 40 “41
report creation and information delivery, 45
Web development, 42
Windows development, 41 “42
XML Web services development, 43
marketing and planning for, 52 “57
memory management concerns, 36 “37
vs. MSXML 4.O, 438
object-oriented technology, 36 “37
overview, 29 “30
performance categories, 270
and platform independence, 23
programming language choice, 31 “33
programming language support, 33
resources for learning more about, 58
and spaghetti code, 36
support for asynchronous processing, 842 “843
support for metadata, 348 “350
support for Web Storage System (WSS), 347
trial version, 53
virtual machine and runtime, 35
Windows development on, 453 “470
and Windows operating system, 467
XCOPY deployment feature, 46
.NET Alerts, 545
.NET applications, 645 “647. See also Enterprise Services (COM+); Windows Applications; Windows Services
automated installation of, 645 “647, 664
creating deployment packages with COBOL for .NET, 659 “664
creating deployment packages with Visual Studio .NET (VS .NET), 647 “659
with Microsoft Windows Installer 2.0, 647
basic IIS configuration task, 672 “676
compiling, 637 “638
configuring
for code access security, 722 “724
with configuration namespaces, 718 “722
with custom attributes, 684 “685
with directives, 682 “683
with XML child elements, 745 “746
with XML-based files, 706 “708
debugging, 637 “639
deployment of, 632 “633
Global Assembly Cache (GAC) in, 640 “642
manual installation of, 645 “647
Copy Project approach, 669 “671
XCOPY approach, 668 “669
multiple versions of configuration files in, 643 “644
obfuscation, 636 “637
redistribution of COBOL .NET runtime, 635
redistribution of .NET Framework, 634
using strong name for assembly in, 642
Web site, 677
XML configuration file, 709
.NET Compact Framework, The -Overview (Web site), 58
.NET data providers, 385 “389
.NET Dataset, 389 “394. See also ADO.NET
COBOL for .NET sample program, 418 “424
composition of, 393
creating, 393
as disconnected relational database, 410
and Extensible Markup Language (XML), 410 “433
DataSet class, 410 “413
Document Object Model (DOM)
class, 436 “437
GetXML method, 413 “418
ReadXML method, 413 “418
Schema, 429 “433
WriteXML method, 413 “418
and increase in data demands, 390 “392
support for relational and hierarchical views in, 410
System.Data namespace in, 392 “394
tables, 393
Visual Basic .NET sample program, 424 “428
and XML Schema, 429 “433
.NET Enterprise Server, 58, 360 “361
.NET Framework, 205 “207
accessing text files in, 329 “334
assemblies, 235 “236
Class Viewer tool, 221 “224
classes, 177, 206, 220 “224
Configuration tool, 731, 734 “735
creating garbage in, 250 “251
delegates, 206, 217 “218
enumerations, 206, 224 “226
interfaces, 206, 218 “220
namespaces, 207 “211, 718 “720
Object Browser, 211 “216
objects, 205
in COBOL for .NET sample program, 228 “231
on managed heap, 251
in Visual Basic .NET sample program, 232 “234
project files, 237 “242
property pages, 237 “242
redistribution of, 634
Regular Expressions tool, 230
reusing, 228 “235
and session state, 582
structures, 206, 227 “228
support for ASP.NET Web Applications, 486 “498
support for asynchronous processing, 843 “844
support for graphic data in, 340 “341
support for .NET Remoting, 844
support for user validation, 535 “536
thread safety in, 854 “857
wizards, 744
and XML, 434 “436
.NET Language, The: A Quick Translation Guide, 934
.NET Magazine, 28
.NET My Services, 545
.NET Passport, 545
.NET programming, 163 “169, 171 “200
Clipboard Ring feature (VS .NET), 189 “190
COBOL .NET example, 163 “166, 174 “181, 184 “189
data types in, 176 “180
defining data items in, 173 “174
logic statements in, 183 “184
Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL) in, 197 “201
and programming syntax, 171 “174
Solution Explorer (VS. NET), 195 “196
VB .NET example, 167 “169
Visual Basic .NET example, 182 “184, 190 “193
.NET Remoting, 843 “846
channel security for, 724
as a feature of common language runtime (CLR), 248
.NET Framework support for, 844
System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging namespaces, 844
technologies, 845
XML child element for, 710
.NET Services, 545
.NET Training Roadmap (Web site), 58
NetCOBOL for .NET, 13, 32. See COBOL for .NET
NetCOBOL for .NET Web site, 170
.NET-style database programming, 384 “405
.NET data providers in, 385 “389
.NET Dataset, 389 “394
using ADO.NET in, 394 “405
Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP), 346
network protocols, 83
network traffic, 571
NEW clause, 285
New Project dialog box, 141, 159, 164 , 168
News tab, 146
Ngen.exe utility, 640
NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol), 346
No Carbon Required (NCR) paper, 598
nonblocking calls, 822
notation, in coding style, 942 “943
Notepad, Microsoft, 80 “82, 326
editing with, 154 “155
writing HTML in, 108 “109
notification area, 363
NT file system (NTFS), 325
NT Services. See Windows Services