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Difference between Netmodule and Assembly file

Saqib Ullah — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:56:08 GMT

Hello geeks after a long time, I write some thing that basically tell what the actually difference between .net assembly and Netmodule file. I illustrate this blog by using the following piece of code block.

using System;

public class CSharpHelloWorld

{

public CSharpHelloWorld() {}

///<summary>

///

///</summary>

public void displayHelloWorld()

{

Console.WriteLine("Hello World, from C#!");

}

.Net Assembly File

Basically .Net assembly is a compile library that contains code in CIL (Common Intermediate Language) form, which is generated form actual source code and assembly manifest that is a metadata for assembly. It’s practically possible that assembly consist of more than one files e.g. resource file, .netmodule file.

Figure 1: [CSharpHelloWorld.dll] Contain assembly manifest and metadata

Netmodule File

Netmodule is a unit of compilation. Basically code file is a single module. This is the feature of the specific compiler to compile the source code into assembly or a netmodule. Netmodule only contain type metadata and compiled code (netmodule does not required assembly manifest information). But there is a limitation with netmodule files; it has to be required assembly linking for execution [you can use /addmodule switch of compiler to link the netmodule into assembly].

Figure 2: [CSharpHelloWorld.netmodule] Contain only metadata information.

Note:-

Type the following command on Visual Studio Command prompt to generate netmodule file

csc.exe /t:module HelloWorld.cs

This blog contain only initial level of information. *

Mixit Inc Diamond Sponsor for STAC Annual Meeting in Chicago

Saqib Ullah — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:27:57 GMT

Mixit Inc, a Wall Street based company, with its development arm in Karachi, is the Diamond sponsor for the Security Traders Association of Chicago’s (STAC) Annual Winter Meeting Jan 10-13, 2008 in Chicago.

Mixit Inc. is a world class technology provider to the financial services industry globally providing a high performance suite of products including order management and order routing solutions and networks. Mixit connects brokers, dealers, institutions and exchanges.

The Security Traders Association of Chicago is the representative organization of security traders in Chicago and the leading authority and champion of individual practitioners on issues affecting traders and markets. It is also the advocate of policies that foster investor trust, professional ethics, marketplace integrity and advance an agenda that supports capital formation, jobs creation, and marketplace innovation.

Available Logging Options

Saqib Ullah — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:23:11 GMT

Logging is one the important part of any small or big application and selecting the right logging option is very crucial and the decision is made on the basis of logging time response (if you are working on the real time application like my CRM, Stock application), cost of logging implementation and in last at which level of logging you want in your application is very important. Yesterday I found a very interesting comparison between different available logging options; I felt I should share it with you guys.

Options	Positive Points	Negative Points
Event log	High-level application events (for example start and stop)	Limited in number of events
Performance counters	Use when you have rollup summary information (number of active users) or absolute (simple) values you want to measure (total requests)	Not suitable for complex data
Debug output	Single user code pathing and debugging	Overwhelming if used everywhere
SEH	Good for unexpected exceptions	Can bend your design
System.Diagnostics.Trace	Easy to use	Limited to Web apps
ASP.NET trace	Great for debugging	Fixed functionality
WMI	Widely supported, complementary to other schemes (for example, your event log code can be surfaced through WMI)	More complex to use and install applications with
EIF	Easier to program than WMI	Doesn't expose all of WMI's power
LAB	Common requirements provided: MSMQ logging, DBMS logging	A lot to learn

Become a Domain Expert of Stock Market

Saqib Ullah — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 04:47:31 GMT

I am getting older and older in Mixit Inc. I am getting familiar with their products and their methodologies, which are very vital for the new comer to become domain. I am very thankfully to Mr. Salman he is actually the chief operating officer of Mixit Inc. and domain expect for recommending me very admirable book on current domain. So I feel I should share it with you guys if you want to become a domain expert of Stock science. Global Securities Processing by DAVID M. WEISS. One thing that I felt from the very first day was that the geeks should also be good domain experts, because having strong domain saves your career in long term while current technologies mark your career for short term. Its not means that you only give more concentration on domain in the beginning of your career rather then on the technology, because you’re entering in I.T market and it’s the requirement of the companies to appoint great geeks with great mind.

Mixit

Saqib Ullah — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 03:16:29 GMT

Finally I switch over to new job at MIXIT Inc. My job responsibility is much higher and responsible than ever before. One thing that I want to mention about Mixit is that the domain on which they working are very excellent and crucial because it’s a game of money. Actually they are professional on stock market applications and its protocol like Financial Information eXchange (FIX), here I should want to say that not too many bodies with few brains it’s a complete team of good geeks. My new domain is not very easy to understand in few days and I know it will require more time then any other domain required because it’s critical and evolving everyday. Mixit purely use Microsoft technologies for their products and I hope I should have good learning curve in term domain and technologies as well.

Microsoft Sync Framework (MSF)

Saqib Ullah — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:55:46 GMT

Another Microsoft step toward the synchronization of data I think it’s a great technology on Microsoft platform. It’s a comprehensive synchronization platform independent from any data type, any data store and transfer protocol and network topology. Microsoft Sync Framework will be ship with Visual Studio 2008 with other technologies like Language Integrated Query (LINQ), Tools for Microsoft Office and multi supported .Net Framework version.
Microsoft Sync Framework provides a platform that support both online and offline development. According to Microsoft this platform allow developer can build sync ecosystems that integrate any application, with any data from any store using and protocol over any network. The Microsoft Sync Framework includes all of the things required to integrate applications into an offline or collaboration based network, using the pre-created providers or writing new custom providers. Providers enable any data source to participate in data synchronization regardless of network or device type.

SOA Project Direction II

Saqib Ullah — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 09:24:19 GMT

In my last blog I talk about the SOA project direction and what are the things that you should keep in mind when you start the SOA project. After giving the answers of four questions one last thing that is left is identifying the roles in the SOA project lifecycle. What my point of you about start of SOA lifecycle is the identification of stakeholders that hold cure information about SOA lifecycle, because related artifact, actors/roles and business processes are very vital in the whole lifecycle. Roles play an important part in the service lifecycle as well, and SOA domination helps define what roles are needed, where and when. For example, if we look at service interface design, we find it typically involves the following roles.

Fig 1. SOA Roles.

Service champion – Department that totally dependent on the business or person which owns this service.

Architect – responsible for service business design and if an existing service can be reused, modified, or versioned; also ensures that the new service will fit well into the service landscape;

Designer and Developer - technical roles responsible for the technical service design and implementation.

SOA Project Direction

Saqib Ullah — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:34:37 GMT

Starting any project without identifying organization needs and plan are never ending projects and that is also true for Service Oriented Application projects. The biggest misconception about SOA is it’s a technical concept actually SOA is primarily a management concept. SOA is not purely an IT concept. Part of SOA is, of course, technical implementation at the IT level. But in addition, an organization must be able to ensure a commitment to services and the organization of the responsibilities for these services.

When even we start SOA project we have some questions in our mind regarding SOA project direction.

What challenges address by the SOA project [Challenges should be achievable]?
Does SOA project optimize the business process management [Customer gets direct benefit]?
Does it improve the data flow by integrating existing applications [Functionality that can be accessed via a standardized interface]?
Does it align business and IT?

Note: “When planning a SOA project, organizations should strive toward a smaller-scale, medium-term implementation and organization interdepartmental feedback plays very vital role in the success of SOA benchmarking”.

What is BizTalk Server 2006 R2

Saqib Ullah — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:38:29 GMT

Another release of Microsoft BizTalk Server. I must say its good step toward target of SOA. BizTalk Server 2006 R2 builds upon the Business Process Management and SOA/ESB capabilities and address core challenges found in key vertical industries such as manufacturing and retail.Native capabilities of BTS R2 include support for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and AS2 ,Windows Workflow Foundation, WCF as well as RFID.

Dynamic Language Runtime

Saqib Ullah — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 22:21:27 GMT

IronRuby is the second .NET implementation from Microsoft that's based on an open source dynamic language. The first, IronPython, which shipped in August 2006, was developed to run directly on the .NET 2.0 Common Language Runtime (CLR). Announced at MIX07, along with Silverlight 1.1 for .NET, IronRuby is designed to take advantage of Microsoft's upcoming Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR), a set of services on top of the CLR. Microsoft plans to build four dynamic language implementations -- IronRuby, IronPython, Dynamic Visual Basic (VB 10) and Managed JScript.
"The main reason we're not accepting contributions back into the [IronRuby] compiler is that the interfaces between the compiler and the DLR haven't been finalized and probably won't be for about a year," explains Lam. "The DLR itself is going to ship along with the next version of the CLR, so we want to make sure that from an IP standpoint we're very clean on that stuff."