Bitrate = 80 kbps

Mono

Quality = Very high (q = 0)

C7XQ1: What is the difference between the way the CLR deals with unhandled exceptions in the .NET Framwork 1.1 verses 2.0?

Answer: In 1.0, a backstop is provided for unhandled exceptions that occur on the following types of thread:

• A thread from the thread pool.
• A thread created with the Thread.Start method.
• A finaliser thread.

In 2.0, these exceptions are left to proceed naturally.

C7XQ2: The .NET Framework 2.0 provides a backstop for what three types of unhandled exceptions?

Answer:

• A ThreadAbortException thrown because of an Abort call.
• An AppDomainUnloadException thrown because the application domain is being unloaded.
• An internal exception thrown by the CLR or host process.

ITQ5: What is Conway's Law?

Answer: “Organisations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organisations.” - Melvin Conway, 1968.

PragC2Q16: What is code that glows in the dark?

Answer: Tracer code.

PragC2Q17: What are the four aspects of code that tracer code should share with production code and what is the one aspect that it does not?

Answer:

Shared: error checking, structuring, documentation and self-checking.

Not shared: Full functionality.

PragC2Q18: What are the five advantages of tracer code?

Answer:

• Users get to see something early.
• Develops a build structure to work in.
• Creates an integration platform.
• Creates something to demonstrate.
• Creates a better feel for progress.

PragC2Q19: What is the difference between tracer code and prototyping?

Answer: Prototyping generates disposable code. Tracer code is lean but complete and forms part of the skeleton of the final system.

C3L1Q2: In a regular expression, what is a lazy quantifier and how is one specified?

Answer: A lazy quantifier will match as little of the searched string as possible. A lazy quantifier is specified by adding a '?' symbol immediately after the quantifier.