Advanced Development Technologies 

This topic provides links to information on sophisticated development tasks and techniques in the .NET Framework.

In This Section

• Administration and Management
  Provides information about using Directory Services and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).

• Component Authoring for the Design Environment
  Describes how to create custom components and how to extend design-time support.

• Asynchronous Programming Design Patterns
  Discusses asynchronous programming features in the .NET Framework.

• Dynamic Source Code Generation and Compilation
  Explains the Code Document Object Model (CodeDOM), which enables the output of source code in multiple programming languages.

• Emitting Dynamic Methods and Assemblies
  Describes a set of managed types in the System.Reflection.Emit namespace that allow a compiler or tool to emit metadata and Microsoft intermediate language (MSIL) at run time and optionally generate a portable executable (PE) file on disk.

• Garbage Collection
  Discusses how the garbage collector manages memory and how you can program to use memory more efficiently.

• Hosting the Common Language Runtime
  Explains the concept of a runtime host, which loads the runtime into a process, creates the application domain within the process, and loads and executes user code.

• Interoperability
  Describes interoperability services provided by the common language runtime. Also provides links to information about incorporating COM components into your .NET Framework application.

• Network Programming
  Shows how to use Internet access classes to implement both Web-based applications and Internet-based applications.

• Reflection
  Explains how to get access to type information at run time by using reflection.

• Reliability
  Describes the use of reliability-oriented attributes such as HPA and ReliabilityContract, and discusses best practices for writing reliable code.

• Remote Objects
  Describes the various communication methods available in the .NET Framework for remote communications.

• Serialization
  Discusses XML serialization.

• Managed Threading
  Explains the runtime support for threading and how to program using various synchronization techniques.

• Writing Serviced Components
  Describes how to configure and register serviced components for access to COM+ services.

Reference

• System.Reflection.Emit
  Describes the major features of the Emit namespace.

Related Sections

• Core Development Technologies
  Provides links to information about standard application development tasks in the .NET Framework.

• Security in the .NET Framework
  Provides links to information about the classes and services in the .NET Framework that facilitate secure application development.