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Study Questions - Lucy Dip Creation
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17.2. Click the Insert Row button lots.
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Questions To Be Lucky Dipped
Chapter 3: The Basic Tools
PragC3Q1: What are the three benefits of plain text?
Answer:
- Insurance against obsolescence
- Leverage
- Easier testing
PragC3Q2: What are three situations that make tracing statements invaluable?
Answer:
- Concurrent processes
- Real-time systems
- Event-based applications
C13L1Q11: How are COM types that are defined in an assembly used differently from other managed types?
Answer: They aren't used differently (tricky).
C13L1Q12: How is compiling an interop project different from compiling a managed project?
Answer: It isn't different (tricky).
C13L1Q13: What three things does an interop application contain?
Answer:
- A .NET client assembly.
- One or more interop assemblies.
- One or more registered COM components.
C13L1Q14: Where should private assemblies be installed?
Answer: The same directory as the application.
C13L1Q15: What must a shared assembly have and where is it installed?
Answer: It must have a strong name and be installed in the Global Assembly Cache (GAC).
C13L1Q16: What is a primary interop assembly?
Answer: A unique, vendor-supplied, strong named, interop assembly that contains type definitions (as metadata) of types implemented with COM.
C13L2Q4: What are the five guidelines for qualifying .NET types for interoperation?
Answer:
- Classes should implement interfaces explicitly.
- Managed types must be public.
- Methods, properties, fields and events must be public.
- Types must have a public default constructor to be activated from COM.
- Types can not be abstract.
C13L2Q5: What public parts of a class are not exposed to COM clients?
Answer: Parameterised constructors, static methods and constant fields.
C13L2Q6: What does the Assembly Registration tool do and what .NET class provides the equivalent functionality?
Answer: The Assembly Registration tool generates a type library and then registers it so that COM clients can use the .NET class transparently, or it can unregister an assembly. The equivalent class is RegistrationServices.
C13L2Q7: What is the difference between the Type Library Exporter and the Assembly Registration tool?
Answer: The Type Library Exporter generates a type library but does not register it. The Assembly Registration tool does both.
C13L2Q8: How do you use the Type Library Exporter to generate a subset of the types defined in an assembly?
Answer: You can't - the entire assembly is converted at once (tricky).