Tuesday, May 3, 2011

.NET TECHNICAL INTERVIEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERES


 Asp .Net Technical Interview Questions and Answers

How many languages .NET is supporting now?
When .NET was introduced it came with several languages. VB.NET, C#, COBOL and Perl, etc. 44 languages are supported.
How is .NET able to support multiple languages? 
A language should comply with the Common Language Runtime standard to become a .NET language. In .NET, code is compiled to Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL for short). This is called as Managed Code. This Managed code is run in .NET environment. So after compilation to this IL the language is not a barrier. A code can call or use a function written in another language.

How ASP .NET different from ASP? 
Scripting is separated from the HTML, Code is compiled as a DLL, these DLLs can be executed on the server.

What is smart navigation? 
The cursor position is maintained when the page gets refreshed due to the server side validation and the page gets refreshed.

What is view state? 
The web is stateless. But in ASP.NET, the state of a page is maintained in the in the page itself automatically. How? The values are encrypted and saved in hidden controls. this is done automatically by the ASP.NET. This can be switched off / on for a single control

How do you validate the controls in an ASP .NET page? 
Using special validation controls that are meant for this. We have Range Validator, Email Validator. 

Can the validation be done in the server side? Or this can be done only in the Client side? 
Client side is done by default. Server side validation is also possible. We can switch off the client side and server side can be done.

How to manage pagination in a page? 
Using pagination option in DataGrid control. We have to set the number of records for a page, then it takes care of pagination by itself.

What is ADO .NET and what is difference between ADO and ADO.NET? 
ADO.NET is stateless mechanism. I can treat the ADO.Net as a separate in-memory database where in I can use relationships between the tables and select insert and updates to the database. I can update the actual database as a batch.

Explain the differences between Server-side and Client-side code?
Server side scripting means that all the script will be executed by the server and interpreted as needed. ASP doesn’t have some of the functionality like sockets, uploading, etc. For these you have to make a custom components usually in VB or VC++. Client side scripting means that the script will be executed immediately in the browser such as form field validation, clock, email validation, etc. Client side scripting is usually done in VBScript or JavaScript. Download time, browser compatibility, and visible code - since JavaScript and VBScript code is included in the HTML page, then anyone can see the code by viewing the page source. Also a possible security hazards for the client computer.
What type of code (server or client) is found in a Code-Behind class? 
C# 

Should validation (did the user enter a real date) occur server-side or client-side? Why? 
Client-side validation because there is no need to request a server side date when you could obtain a date from the client machine.

What does the "EnableViewState" property do? Why would I want it on or off? 
Enable ViewState turns on the automatic state management feature that enables server controls to re-populate their values on a round trip without requiring you to write any code. This feature is not free however, since the state of a control is passed to and from the server in a hidden form field. You should be aware of when ViewState is helping you and when it is not. For example, if you are binding a control to data on every round trip (as in the datagrid example in tip #4), then you do not need the control to maintain it’s view state, since you will wipe out any re-populated data in any case. ViewState is enabled for all server controls by default. To disable it, set the EnableViewState property of the control to false.

What is the difference between Server.Transfer and Response.Redirect? 
Why would I choose one over the other? Server.Transfer() : client is shown as it is on the requesting page only, but the all the content is of the requested page. Data can be persist across the pages using Context.Item collection, which is one of the best way to transfer data from one page to another keeping the page state alive. Response.Dedirect() :client know the physical location (page name and query string as well). Context.Items loses the persistence when navigate to destination page. In earlier versions of IIS, if we wanted to send a user to a new Web page, the only option we had was Response.Redirect. While this method does accomplish our goal, it has several important drawbacks. The biggest problem is that this method causes each page to be treated as a separate transaction. Besides making it difficult to maintain your transactional integrity, Response.Redirect introduces some additional headaches. First, it prevents good encapsulation of code. Second, you lose access to all of the properties in the Request object. Sure, there are workarounds, but they’re difficult. Finally, Response.Redirect necessitates a round trip to the client, which, on high-volume sites, causes scalability problems. As you might suspect, Server.Transfer fixes all of these problems. It does this by performing the transfer on the server without requiring a roundtrip to the client.

Can you give an example of when it would be appropriate to use a web service as opposed to a non-serviced .NET component? 
When to Use Web Services:
* Communicating through a Firewall When building a distributed application with 100s/1000s of users spread over multiple locations, there is always the problem of communicating between client and server because of firewalls and proxy servers. Exposing your middle tier components as Web Services and invoking the directly from a Windows UI is a very valid option.

* Application Integration When integrating applications written in various languages and running on disparate systems. Or even applications running on the same platform that have been written by separate vendors.

* Business-to-Business Integration This is an enabler for B2B integration which allows one to expose vital business processes to authorized supplier and customers. An example would be exposing electronic ordering and invoicing, allowing customers to send you purchase orders and suppliers to send you invoices electronically.

* Software Reuse This takes place at multiple levels. Code Reuse at the Source code level or binary component-based reuse. The limiting factor here is that you can reuse the code but not the data behind it. Webservice overcome this limitation. A scenario could be when you are building an app that aggregates the functionality of several other Applications. Each of these functions could be performed by individual apps, but there is value in perhaps combining the multiple apps to present a unified view in a Portal or Intranet.

* When not to use Web Services: Single machine Applications When the apps are running on the same machine and need to communicate with each other use a native API. You also have the options of using component technologies such as COM or .NET Components as there is very little overhead.

* Homogeneous Applications on a LAN If you have Win32 or Winforms apps that want to communicate to their server counterpart. It is much more efficient to use DCOM in the case of Win32 apps and .NET Remoting in the case of .NET Apps.

Can you explain the difference between an ADO.NET Dataset and an ADO Recordset?
In ADO, the in-memory representation of data is the RecordSet. In ADO.NET, it is the dataset. There are important differences between them.

* A RecordSet looks like a single table. If a recordset is to contain data from multiple database tables, it must use a JOIN query, which assembles the data from the various database tables into a single result table. In contrast, a dataset is a collection of one or more tables. The tables within a dataset are called data tables; specifically, they are DataTable objects. If a dataset contains data from multiple database tables, it will typically contain multiple DataTable objects. That is, each DataTable object typically corresponds to a single database table or view. In this way, a dataset can mimic the structure of the underlying database. A dataset usually also contains relationships. A relationship within a dataset is analogous to a foreign-key relationship in a database —that is, it associates rows of the tables with each other. For example, if a dataset contains a table about investors and another table about each investor’s stock purchases, it could also contain a relationship connecting each row of the investor table with the corresponding rows of the purchase table. Because the dataset can hold multiple, separate tables and maintain information about relationships between them, it can hold much richer data structures than a recordset, including self-relating tables and tables with many-to-many relationships.

* In ADO you scan sequentially through the rows of the recordset using the ADO MoveNext method. In ADO.NET, rows are represented as collections, so you can loop through a table as you would through any collection, or access particular rows via ordinal or primary key index. DataRelation objects maintain information about master and detail records and provide a method that allows you to get records related to the one you are working with. For example, starting from the row of the Investor table for "Nate Sun," you can navigate to the set of rows of the Purchase table describing his purchases. A cursor is a database element that controls record navigation, the ability to update data, and the visibility of changes made to the database by other users. ADO.NET does not have an inherent cursor object, but instead includes data classes that provide the functionality of a traditional cursor. For example, the functionality of a forward-only, read-only cursor is available in the ADO.NET DataReader object. For more information about cursor functionality, see Data Access Technologies.

* Minimized Open Connections: In ADO.NET you open connections only long enough to perform a database operation, such as a Select or Update. You can read rows into a dataset and then work with them without staying connected to the data source. In ADO the recordset can provide disconnected access, but ADO is designed primarily for connected access. There is one significant difference between disconnected processing in ADO and ADO.NET. In ADO you communicate with the database by making calls to an OLE DB provider. In ADO.NET you communicate with the database through a data adapter (an OleDbDataAdapter, SqlDataAdapter, OdbcDataAdapter, or OracleDataAdapter object), which makes calls to an OLE DB provider or the APIs provided by the underlying data source. The important difference is that in ADO.NET the data adapter allows you to control how the changes to the dataset are transmitted to the database — by optimizing for performance, performing data validation checks, or adding any other extra processing. Data adapters, data connections, data commands, and data readers are the components that make up a .NET Framework data provider. Microsoft and third-party providers can make available other .NET Framework data providers that can be integrated into Visual Studio.

* Sharing Data Between Applications. Transmitting an ADO.NET dataset between applications is much easier than transmitting an ADO disconnected recordset. To transmit an ADO disconnected recordset from one component to another, you use COM marshalling. To transmit data in ADO.NET, you use a dataset, which can transmit an XML stream.

* Richer data types.COM marshalling provides a limited set of data types — those defined by the COM standard. Because the transmission of datasets in ADO.NET is based on an XML format, there is no restriction on data types. Thus, the components sharing the dataset can use whatever rich set of data types they would ordinarily use.

* Performance. Transmitting a large ADO recordset or a large ADO.NET dataset can consume network resources; as the amount of data grows, the stress placed on the network also rises. Both ADO and ADO.NET let you minimize which data is transmitted. But ADO.NET offers another performance advantage, in that ADO.NET does not require data-type conversions. ADO, which requires COM marshalling to transmit records sets among components, does require that ADO data types be converted to COM data types.

* Penetrating Firewalls.A firewall can interfere with two components trying to transmit disconnected ADO recordsets. Remember, firewalls are typically configured to allow HTML text to pass, but to prevent system-level requests (such as COM marshalling) from passing.

Can you give an example of what might be best suited to place in the Application_Start and Session_Start subroutines?
The Application_Start event is guaranteed to occur only once throughout the lifetime of the application. It’s a good place to initialize global variables. For example, you might want to retrieve a list of products from a database table and place the list in application state or the Cache object. SessionStateModule exposes both Session_Start and Session_End events. 

If I’m developing an application that must accomodate multiple security levels though secure login and my ASP.NET web appplication is spanned across three web-servers (using round-robbin load balancing) what would be the best approach to maintain login-in state for the users? 

What are ASP.NET Web Forms? How is this technology different than what is available though ASP?
Web Forms are the heart and soul of ASP.NET. Web Forms are the User Interface (UI) elements that give your Web applications their look and feel. Web Forms are similar to Windows Forms in that they provide properties, methods, and events for the controls that are placed onto them. However, these UI elements render themselves in the appropriate markup language required by the request, e.g. HTML. If you use Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, you will also get the familiar drag-and-drop interface used to create your UI for your Web application. 
How does VB.NET/C# achieve polymorphism? 
By using Abstract classes/functions.

Can you explain what inheritance is and an example of when you might use it? 
Inheritance is a fundamental feature of an object oriented system and it is simply the ability to inherit data and functionality from a parent object. Rather than developing new objects from scratch, new code can be based on the work of other programmers, adding only new features that are needed. 

How would you implement inheritance using VB.NET/C#? 
When we set out to implement a class using inheritance, we must first start with an existing class from which we will derive our new subclass. This existing class, or base class, may be part of the .NET system class library framework, it may be part of some other application or .NET assembly, or we may create it as part of our existing application. Once we have a base class, we can then implement one or more subclasses based on that base class. Each of our subclasses will automatically have all of the methods, properties, and events of that base class ? including the implementation behind each method, property, and event. Our subclass can add new methods, properties, and events of its own - extending the original interface with new functionality. Additionally, a subclass can replace the methods and properties of the base class with its own new implementation - effectively overriding the original behavior and replacing it with new behaviors. Essentially inheritance is a way of merging functionality from an existing class into our new subclass. Inheritance also defines rules for how these methods, properties, and events can be merged.

What's an assembly? 
Assemblies are the building blocks of .NET Framework applications; they form the fundamental unit of deployment, version control, reuse, activation scoping, and security permissions. An assembly is a collection of types and resources that are built to work together and form a logical unit of functionality. An assembly provides the common language runtime with the information it needs to be aware of type implementations. To the runtime, a type does not exist outside the context of an assembly.

Describe the difference between inline and code behind - which is best in a loosely coupled solution? 
ASP.NET supports two modes of page development: Page logic code that is written inside <script runat=server> blocks within an .aspx file and dynamically compiled the first time the page is requested on the server. Page logic code that is written within an external class that is compiled prior to deployment on a server and linked "behind" the .aspx file at run time.

Explain what a diffgram is, and a good use for one? 
A DiffGram is an XML format that is used to identify current and original versions of data elements. The DataSet uses the DiffGram format to load and persist its contents, and to serialize its contents for transport across a network connection. When a DataSet is written as a DiffGram, it populates the DiffGram with all the necessary information to accurately recreate the contents, though not the schema, of the DataSet, including column values from both the Original and Current row versions, row error information, and row order.

Where would you use an iHTTPModule, and what are the limitations of anyapproach you might take in implementing one? 
One of ASP.NET’s most useful features is the extensibility of the HTTP pipeline, the path that data takes between client and server. You can use them to extend your ASP.NET applications by adding pre- and post-processing to each HTTP request coming into your application. For example, if you wanted custom authentication facilities for your application, the best technique would be to intercept the request when it comes in and process the request in a custom HTTP module.

In what order do the events of an ASPX page execute. As a developer is it important to understand these events? 
Every Page object (which your .aspx page is) has nine events, most of which you will not have to worry about in your day to day dealings with ASP.NET. The three that you will deal with the most are: Page_Init, Page_Load, Page_PreRender.

Which method do you invoke on the DataAdapter control to load your generated dataset with data? 
System.Data.Common.DataAdapter.Fill(System.Data.DataSet); 
If my DataAdapter is sqlDataAdapter and my DataSet is dsUsers then it is called this way: 
sqlDataAdapter.Fill(dsUsers);

Which template must you provide, in order to display data in a Repeater control? 
ItemTemplate 

How can you provide an alternating color scheme in a Repeater control? 
AlternatingItemTemplate Like the ItemTemplate element, but rendered for every other row (alternating items) in the Repeater control. You can specify a different appearance for the AlternatingItemTemplate element by setting its style properties. 

What property must you set, and what method must you call in your code, in order to bind the data from some data source to the Repeater control? 
You must set the DataMember property which Gets or sets the specific table in the DataSource to bind to the control and the DataBind method to bind data from a source to a server control. This method is commonly used after retrieving a data set through a database query.

What base class do all Web Forms inherit from? 
System.Web.UI.Page

What method do you use to explicitly kill a user’s session? 
The Abandon method destroys all the objects stored in a Session object and releases their resources.
If you do not call the Abandon method explicitly, the server destroys these objects when the session times out. 
Syntax: Session.Abandon 

How do you turn off cookies for one page in your site? 
Use the Cookie.Discard Property which Gets or sets the discard flag set by the server. When true, this property instructs the client application not to save the Cookie on the user’s hard disk when a session ends.

Which two properties are on every validation control? 
ControlToValidate & ErrorMessage properties

How do you create a permanent cookie? 
Setting the Expires property to MinValue means that the Cookie never expires.

Which method do you use to redirect the user to another page without performing a round trip to the client? 
Server.transfer()

What is the transport protocol you use to call a Web service?
Answer1:
SOAP. Transport Protocols: It is essential for the acceptance of Web Services that they are based on established Internet infrastructure. This in fact imposes the usage of of the HTTP, SMTP and FTP protocols based on the TCP/IP family of transports. Messaging Protocol: The format of messages exchanged between Web Services clients and Web Services should be vendor neutral and should not carry details about the technology used to implement the service. Also, the message format should allow for extensions and different bindings to specific transport protocols. SOAP and ebXML Transport are specifications which fulfill these requirements. We expect that the W3C XML Protocol Working Group defines a successor standard. 

Answer2:
SOAP is not the transport protocol. SOAP is the data encapsulation protocol that is used but the transport protocol is fairly unlimited. Generally HTTP is the most common transport protocol used though you could conceivanly use things like SMTP or any others. SOAP is not dependant on any single transport protocol or OS, it is a syntactical and logical definition, not a transport protocol.

True or False: A Web service can only be written in .NET.? 
False.

What does WSDL stand for? 
Web Services Description Language

Where on the Internet would you look for Web services? 
UDDI repositaries like uddi.microsoft.com, IBM UDDI node, UDDI Registries in Google Directory, enthusiast sites like XMethods.net. 

What tags do you need to add within the asp:datagrid tags to bind columns manually? 
Column tag and an ASP:databound tag.

How is a property designated as read-only? 
In VB.NET:
Public ReadOnly Property PropertyName As ReturnType
Get ‘Your Property Implementation goes in here
End Get
End Property

in C#
public returntype PropertyName
{
get{
//property implementation goes here
}
// Do not write the set implementation
}

Which control would you use if you needed to make sure the values in two different controls matched? 
Use the CompareValidator control to compare the values of 2 different controls.

True or False: To test a Web service you must create a windows application or Web application to consume this service? 
False.

How many classes can a single .NET DLL contain?
Unlimited.

Describe session handling in a webfarm, how does it work and what are the limits? 
Set the sessionState mode in the web.config file to “StateServer”.
StateServer mode uses an out-of-process Windows NT Server to store state information.
It solves the session state loss problem in InProc mode.
Allows a webfarm to store session on a central server.
It provides a Single point of failure at the State Server.

Follow these simple steps:
- In a web farm, make sure you have the same in all your web servers.
- Also, make sure your objects are serializable.
- For session state to be maintained across different web servers in the web farm, the Application Path of the website in the IIS Metabase should be identical in all the web servers in the web farm.
 
What are the disadvantages of viewstate/what are the benefits? 
Answer1:
Disadvantage of viewstate is that additional data is sent to the browser. The benefits are that you do not have to manually manage refreshing the page fields after a submit, (when re-displaying the same page). 

Answer2:
Automatic view-state management is a feature of server controls that enables them to repopulate their property values on a round trip (without you having to write any code). This feature does impact performance, however, since a server control’s view state is passed to and from the server in a hidden form field. You should be aware of when view state helps you and when it hinders your page’s performance.

What tags do you need to add within the asp:datagrid tags to bind columns manually? 
Answer1:
Set AutoGenerateColumns Property to false on the datagrid tag 

Answer2:
tag and either or tags (with appropriate attributes of course)

What is State Management in .Net and how many ways are there to maintain a state in .Net? What is view state? 
Web pages are recreated each time the page is posted to the server. In traditional Web programming, this would ordinarily mean that all information associated with the page and the controls on the page would be lost with each round trip.
To overcome this inherent limitation of traditional Web programming, the ASP.NET page framework includes various options to help you preserve changes — that is, for managing state. The page framework includes a facility called view state that automatically preserves property values of the page and all the controls on it between round trips.
However, you will probably also have application-specific values that you want to preserve. To do so, you can use one of the state management options.
Client-Based State Management Options:
View State
Hidden Form Fields
Cookies
Query Strings
Server-Based State Management Options
Application State
Session State

Database Support

What tag do you use to add a hyperlink column to the DataGrid? 
Depends on who’s definition of hyperlink your using. Manually a std html anchor tag (a) will work or you can use the micro-magical tag

What is the standard you use to wrap up a call to a Web service? 
Several possible answers depending on your interpretation of the quesiton, but I think you were aiming for SOAP (with the caveat that this is MS’s version of SOAP) 

What is the difference between boxing and unboxing ? 
Boxing allows us to convert value types to reference types. Basically, the runtime creates a temporary reference-type box for the object on heap.
Eg:
int i=20;
object o=i; 

Describe the difference between a Thread and a Process? 
Answer1:
Thread - is used to execute more than one program at a time. 
process - executes single program 

Answer2:
A thread is a path of execution that run on CPU, a proccess is a collection of threads that share the same virtual memory. A process have at least one thread of execution, and a thread always run in a process context. 

Answer3:
The operating system creates a process for the purpose of running a program. Each process executes a single program. Processes own resources allocated by the operating system. Resources include memory, file handles, sockets, device handles, and windows. Processes do not share address spaces or file resources except through explicit methods such as inheriting file handles or shared memory segments, or mapping the same file in a shared way. 
Threads allow a program to do multiple things concurrently. At least one thread exists within each process. If multiple threads can exist within a process, then they share the same memory and file resources. 

Answer4:
Thread is a light weight process, which is initialized itself by a process. Light weigt processes does not loads resources required by it itself, these are loaded by its parent process which has generated it.

What is a Windows Service and how does its lifecycle differ from a “standard” EXE? 
Windows Service applications are long-running applications that are ideal for use in server environments. The applications do not have a user interface or produce any visual output; it is instead used by other programs or the system to perform operations. Any user messages are typically written to the Windows Event Log. Services can be automatically started when the computer is booted. This makes services ideal for use on a server or whenever you need long-running functionality that does not interfere with other users who are working on the same computer. They do not require a logged in user in order to execute and can run under the context of any user including the system. Windows Services are controlled through the Service Control Manager where they can be stopped, paused, and started as needed.

What is the difference between an EXE and a DLL?
An EXE can run independently, whereas DLL will run within an EXE. DLL is an in-process file and EXE is an out-process file
What is strong-typing versus weak-typing? Which is preferred? Why? 
Strong type is checking the types of variables as soon as possible, usually at compile time. While weak typing is delaying checking the types of the system as late as possible, usually to run-time. Which is preferred depends on what you want. For scripts & quick stuff you’ll usually want weak typing, because you want to write as much less code as possible. In big programs, strong typing can reduce errors at compile time. 

What are PDBs? Where must they be located for debugging to work? 
Answer1:
To debug precompiled components such as business objects and code-behind modules, you need to generate debug symbols. To do this, compile the components with the debug flags by using either Visual Studio .NET or a command line compiler such as Csc.exe (for Microsoft Visual C# .NET) or Vbc.exe (for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET). 

Using Visual Studio .NET 
1. Open the ASP.NET Web Application project in Visual Studio .NET. 
2. Right-click the project in the Solution Explorer and click Properties. 
3. In the Properties dialog box, click the Configuration Properties folder. 
4. In the left pane, select Build. 
5. Set Generate Debugging Information to true. 
6. Close the Properties dialog box. 
7. Right-click the project and click Build to compile the project and generate symbols (.pdb files). 

Answer2:
A program database (PDB) file holds debugging and project state information that allows incremental linking of a Debug configuration of your program. 
The linker creates project.PDB, which contains debug information for the project’s EXE file. The project.PDB contains full debug information, including function prototypes, not just the type information found in VCx0.PDB. Both PDB files allow incremental updates. 
They should be located at bin\Debug directory

What is cyclomatic complexity and why is it important? 
Cyclomatic complexity is a computer science metric (measurement) developed by Thomas McCabe used to generally measure the complexity of a program. It directly measures the number of linearly independent paths through a program’s source code. 

The concept, although not the method, is somewhat similar to that of general text complexity measured by the Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test. 

Cyclomatic complexity is computed using a graph that describes the control flow of the program. The nodes of the graph correspond to the commands of a program. A directed edge connects two nodes, if the second command might be executed immediately after the first command. By definition, 

CC = E - N + P 

where 
CC = cyclomatic complexity 
E = the number of edges of the graph 
N = the number of nodes of the graph 
P = the number of connected components.

What is FullTrust? Do GAC’ed assemblies have FullTrust? 
Your code is allowed to do anything in the framework, meaning that all (.Net) permissions are granted. The GAC has FullTrust because it’s on the local HD, and that has FullTrust by default, you can change that using caspol

What does this do? gacutil /l | find /i “about” 
Answer1:
This command is used to install strong typed assembly in GAC 

Answer2:
gacutil.exe is used to install strong typed assembly in GAC. gacutil.exe /l is used to lists the contents of the global assembly cache. |(pipe) symbol is used to filter the output with another command. find /i “about” is to find the text “about” on gacutil output. If any lines contains the text “about” then that line will get displayed on console window.

Contrast OOP and SOA. What are tenets of each 
Service Oriented Architecture. In SOA you create an abstract layer that your applications use to access various “services” and can aggregate the services. These services could be databases, web services, message queues or other sources. The Service Layer provides a way to access these services that the applications do not need to know how the access is done. For example, to get a full customer record, I might need to get data from a SGL Server database, a web service and a message queue. The Service layer hides this from the calling application. All the application knows is that it asked for a full customer record. It doesn’t know what system or systems it came from or how it was retrieved.

How does the XmlSerializer work? What ACL permissions does a process using it require? 
XmlSerializer requires write permission to the system’s TEMP directory.

Why is catch(Exception) almost always a bad idea? 
Well, if at that point you know that an error has occurred, then why not write the proper code to handle that error instead of passing a new Exception object to the catch block? Throwing your own exceptions signifies some design flaws in the project.

What is the difference between Debug. Write and Trace. Write? When should each be used? 
Answer1:
The Debug. Write call won’t be compiled when the DEBUG symbol is not defined (when doing a release build). Trace. Write calls will be compiled. Debug. Write is for information you want only in debug builds, Trace. Write is for when you want it in release build as well. And in any case, you should use something like log4net because that is both faster and better 

Answer2:
Debug. Write & Trace. write - both works in Debug mode, while in Release Mode,Trace.write only will work .Try changing the Active Config property of Solution in Property page nd find the difference. Debug.write is used while debugging a project and Trace.write is used in Released version of Applications. 

What is the difference between a Debug and Release build? Is there a significant speed difference? Why or why not? 
Debug build contain debug symbols and can be debugged while release build doesn’t contain debug symbols, doesn’t have [Conational(”DEBUG”)] methods calls compiled, can’t be debugged (easily, that is), less checking, etc. There should be a speed difference, because of disabling debug methods, reducing code size etc but that is not a guarantee (at least not a significant one)

Contrast the use of an abstract base class against an interface? 
Answer1:
In the interface all methods must be abstract, in the abstract class some methods can be concrete. In the interface no accessibility modifiers are allowed, which is ok in abstract classes 

Answer2:
Whether to Choose VB.NET/C#.
Both the languages are using same classes and namespaces. Once it compile and generates MSIL, there is no meaning of which language it was written. If you are Java/C++ programmer better to choose C# for same coding style otherwise you can choose VB.net.

What is the difference between a.Equals(b) and a == b?
Answer1:
a=b is used for assigning the values (rather then comparison) and a==b is for comparison. 

Answer2:
a == b is used to compare the references of two objects 
a.Equals(b) is used to compare two objects 

Answer3:
A equals b -> copies contents of b to a
a == b -> checks if a is equal to b 

Answer4:
Equals method compares both type and value of the variable, while == compares value. 
int a = 0;
bool b = 0

if(a.Equals(b)) 

Answer5:
a.Equals(b) checks whether the Type of a is equal to b or not! Put it in another way,
Dim a As Integer = 1
Dim b As Single = 1

a.Equals(b) returns false. The Equals method returns a boolean value. 
a == b is a simple assignment statement. 

Answer6:
a.equals(b) will check whether the “b” has same type as “a” has and also has the same data as “a” has. 
a==b will do the same thing. 
if you have done this in c++ under “operator overloading” than you guys must be aware of this sytaxts. they are doing the same thing there is only sytaxtical difference. 
let me explain it in different manner.
a==b : means compare “b” with “a”. always left hand side expression evaluated first so here in this case “a” (considered an object) will call the overloaded operator “=” which defines “Equals(object)” method in it’s class. thus, ultimately a.equals(b) goanna called. 
so the answer is: both will perform the same task. they are different by syntaxt 

Answer7:
Difference b/w a==b,a.Equals(b)
a.Equals(b):
The default implementation of Equals supports reference equality only, but derived classes can override this method to support value equality. 

For reference types, equality is defined as object equality; that is, whether the references refer to the same object. For value types, equality is defined as bitwise equality
== :
For predefined value types, the equality operator (==) returns true if the values of its operands are equal, false otherwise. For reference types other than string, == returns true if its two operands refer to the same object. For the string type, == compares the values of the strings.

How would one do a deep copy in .NET? 
Answer1:
System.Array.CopyTo() - Deep copies an Array 

Answer2:
How would one do a deep copy in .NET?
The First Approach.
1.Create a new instance.
2.Copy the properties from source instance to newly created instance.
[Use reflection if you want to write a common method to achive this]

The Second Approach.
1. Serialize the object and deserialize the output.
: Use binary serialization if you want private variables to be copied.
: Use xml Serialization if you dont want private variable to be copied.

What is boxing? 
Boxing is an implicit conversion of a value type to the type object 
int i = 123; // A value type 
Object box = i // Boxing 
Unboxing is an explicit conversion from the type object to a value type 
int i = 123; // A value type object box = i; // Boxing 
int j = (int)box; // Unboxing 

Is string a value type or a reference type? 
Answer1:
String is Reference Type.
Value type - bool, byte, chat, decimal, double, enum , float, int, long, sbyte, short,strut, uint, ulong, ushort
Value types are stored in the Stack
Reference type - class, delegate, interface, object, string
Reference types are stored in the Heap


Answer2:
Yes String is reference type. C# gives two types of variable reference and value type. string and object are reference type.

How does the lifecycle of Windows services differ from Standard EXE? 
Windows services lifecycle is managed by “Service Control Manager” which is responsible for starting and stopping the service and the applications do not have a user interface or produce any visual output, but “Standard executable” doesn’t require Control Manager and is directly related to the visual output

What’s wrong with a line like this? DateTime.Parse(myString) 
the result returned by this function is not assigned to anything, should be something like varx = DateTime.Parse(myString)

NET is Compile Time OR RunTime Environment? 
.Net’s framework has CLS,CTS and CLR.CTS checks declartion of types at the time when u write code and CLS defines some rules and restrictions.and CLR comile everything at runtime with following benefits: Vastly simplified development Seamless integration of code written in various languages Evidence-based security with code identity Assembly-based deployment that eliminates DLL Hell Side-by-side versioning of reusable components Code reuse through implementation inheritance Automatic object lifetime management Self describing objects

Describe the role of inetinfo.exe, aspnet_isapi.dll andaspnet_wp.exe in the page loading process. 
inetinfo.exe is theMicrosoft IIS server running, handling ASP.NET requests among other things.When an ASP.NET request is received (usually a file with .aspx extension),the ISAPI filter aspnet_isapi.dll takes care of it by passing the request tothe actual worker process aspnet_wp.exe.

What’s the difference between Response.Write() andResponse.Output.Write()? 
The latter one allows you to write formattedoutput.

What methods are fired during the page load? 
Init() - when the pageis
instantiated, Load() - when the page is loaded into server memory,PreRender()
- the brief moment before the page is displayed to the user asHTML, Unload()
- when page finishes loading. 

Where does the Web page belong in the .NET Framework class hierarchy? 
System.Web.UI.Page

Where do you store the information about the user’s locale? 
System.Web.UI.Page.Culture

What’s the difference between Codebehind="MyCode.aspx.cs" andSrc="MyCode.aspx.cs"? 
CodeBehind is relevant to Visual Studio.NET only. 

What’s a bubbled event? 
When you have a complex control,  like DataGrid, writing an event processing routine for each object (cell, button, row, etc.) is quite tedious. The controls can bubble up their event handlers, allowing the main DataGrid event handler to take care of its constituents. 

Suppose you want a certain ASP.NET function executed on MouseOver overa certain button. Where do you add an event handler? 
It’s the Attributesproperty,
the Add function inside that property. So

btnSubmit.Attributes.Add("onMouseOver","someClientCode();") 

A simple”Javascript:ClientCode();” in the button control of the .aspx page will attach the handler (javascript function)to the onmouseover event.

What data type does the RangeValidator control support? 
Integer,String and Date.


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