Strong Vs Weak References

Strong Reference -  As long as if application refers to the object. GC will not collect those objects. Those objects we say are strong reference objects. Weak Reference - Even though application refers to the object, GC may collect those...

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What is Common Type System ?

CTS - Common Type System as name suggest it define types. How types are defined, declared , used and managed by common Language Runtime.? The main part is it supports cross language type integration. Confused ? Let me give you a simple example. In C# i will define my Integer variable as int and in VB.Net i will say Integer. So when i will try to...

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What is Common Language Specification ?

CLS is more about rules of .Net and it's a subset of CTS(Common Type System). You must be thinking of CTS, don't worry will discuss in my next article. So CLS, is a basic set of language rules needed by the applications. CLS ensures Interoperability...

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Garbage Collection - Automatic Memory Management Part II

Welcome friends in the second article of Garbage Collection. Those who have missed the first one can visit here. So in this article i will talk more about Generations. So In my last article i mentioned GC has 3 generations: Gen 0, Gen1 and Gen 2. If you want to know the max generations used by application write : System.GC.MaxGeneration. Now...

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Garbage Collection - Automatic memory management

While thinking of this question few things are coming in my mind ~ How .Net reclaims objects and memory used by an application ? So the answer is Garbage Collector Memory management is the main part of CLR and Garbage Collector does the job...

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Clr - Common Language Runtime

.Net framework provides a run time environment - CLR. Common language runtime takes the IL code from the compiler( language specific) and provide to code to run time compiler called JIT. So lot of confusion you must be thinking about IL code & Jit ? IL code is half compile or partially compile code. IL code will be same for all .Net framework...

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.Net Framework overview

Hello friends : Here i am writing my first article on .Net framework anyways....So the question is What is .Net Framework ? The .Net framework is a software framework / technology that supports multiple languages and designed to develop window,...

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What is Var keyword in C#

Var is an implicit data type. It means var can represent any data type that can represent at compile time. So it means var does compile time type casting. Lets look on some code : So now we can easily see that from the above code we can...

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