Table of Contents

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Table of Contents

1 Preface
1.1 About this Book
1.1.1 How this book is organized
1.1.2 Writing Voice
1.2 Focus on Core
1.3 Class Names
1.4 C# and Visual Basic Users
1.5 Book Versions
1.5.1 Indy 10 Version
1.5.2 Indy 9 Version
1.6 About the Authors
1.6.1 About Chad Z. Hower a.k.a. Kudzu
1.6.3 About Hadi Hariri – Technical Editor
1.7 Feedback and Discussion
1.8 Technical Support
1.8.1 Free Support
1.8.1.1 Indy Newsroups
1.8.1.2 Borland Newsgroups
1.8.2 Commercial Priority Support
1.8.3 SSL Support
1.8.4 Bug Reports
1.8.5 Winsock 2
1.9 Additional Information
1.9.1 Other Resources
1.9.2 Further Reading
1.10 Legal
1.10.1 Copyright
1.10.2 Acceptable Use – Personal
1.10.3 Acceptable Use – Corporate
1.11 Credits
2 Introductory Topics
2.1 Introduction to Sockets
2.1.1 Overview
2.1.2 TCP/IP
2.1.3 Client
2.1.4 Server
2.1.5 IP Address
2.1.6 Port
2.1.7 Protocol
2.1.8 Socket
2.1.9 Host Name
2.1.10 DNS
2.1.11 TCP
2.1.12 UDP
2.1.13 ICMP
2.1.14 HOSTS
2.1.15 SERVICES
2.1.16 Localhost (Loopback)
2.1.17 Ping
2.1.18 TraceRoute
2.1.19 LAN
2.1.20 WAN
2.1.21 IETF
2.1.22 RFC
2.1.23 Thread
2.1.24 Fork
2.1.25 Winsock
2.1.26 Stack
2.1.27 Network Byte Order
2.2 Introduction to Indy
2.2.1 The Indy Way
2.2.2 Indy Methodology
2.2.3 How Indy is Different
2.2.4 Overview of Clients
2.2.5 Overview of Servers
2.2.6 Threading
2.2.7 Blocking vs Non-Blocking
2.2.7.1 Programming Models
2.2.7.2 More Models
2.2.7.3 Blocking
2.2.7.4 Non-Blocking
2.2.7.5 History of Winsock
2.2.7.6 Blocking is not Evil
2.2.7.7 Pros of Blocking
2.2.7.8 Cons of Blocking
2.2.7.9 TIdAntiFreeze
2.2.7.10 Pros of Non-Blocking
2.2.7.11 Cons of Non-Blocking
2.2.7.12 Comparison
2.2.7.13 Files vs. Sockets
2.2.7.14 Scenario
2.2.7.15 Blocking File Write
2.2.7.16 Non-Blocking File Write
2.2.7.16.1 C#
2.2.7.16.2 Delphi
2.2.7.17 Just Like Files
2.2.7.18 Aysnchronous Everything
3 TCP
3.1 Reading and Writing
3.1.1 Read Methods
3.1.1.1 AllData
3.1.1.2 Capture
3.1.1.3 CheckForDataOnSource
3.1.1.4 InputBuffer
3.1.1.5 InputBufferIsEmpty
3.1.1.6 InputBufferAsString
3.1.1.7 InputLn
3.1.1.8 InputBufferToStream
3.1.1.9 Readable
3.1.1.10 ReadBytes
3.1.1.11 ReadCardinal
3.1.1.12 ReadChar
3.1.1.13 ReadInteger
3.1.1.14 ReadLn
3.1.1.15 ReadLnSplit
3.1.1.16 ReadLnWait
3.1.1.17 ReadSmallInt
3.1.1.18 ReadStream
3.1.1.19 ReadString
3.1.1.20 ReadStrings
3.1.1.21 WaitFor
3.1.2 Read Timeouts
3.1.3 Write Methods
3.1.3.1 Write (Cardinal)
3.1.3.2 Write (Integer)
3.1.3.3 Write (SmallInt)
3.1.3.4 Write (String)
3.1.3.5 Write (TIdBuffer)
3.1.3.6 Write (TIdStream)
3.1.3.7 Write (TStrings)
3.1.3.8 WriteBytes
3.1.3.9 WriteFile
3.1.3.10 WriteLn
3.1.4 Write Buffering
3.1.5 Work Transactions
3.1.5.1 OnWork Events
3.1.5.2 Managing Your Own Work Transactions
3.1.6 Live Streaming
3.1.6.1 TLiveStream
3.1.6.2 HTTP Client Live Stream Demo
3.2 Detecting Disconnects
3.2.1 Saying Good Bye
3.2.2 Do you really need to know?
3.2.3 I need to know now!
3.2.3.1 Keep Alives
3.2.3.2 Pings
3.2.4 EIdConnClosedGracefully
3.2.4.1 Why Does This Exception Occur in Servers?
3.2.4.2 Why is it an Exception?
3.2.4.3 Is it an Error?
3.2.4.4 When is it an Error?
3.2.4.5 Simple Solution
3.3 TCP Clients
3.3.1 Basic Client
3.3.2 Handling Exceptions
3.3.3 Exceptions are not Errors
3.3.4 Delphi Debugger Note
3.3.5 TIdAntiFreeze
3.3.6 Demo – Zip Code Client
3.3.6.1 Zip Code Protocol
3.3.6.2 Code Explanation
3.4 TCP Servers
3.4.1 Server Types
3.4.1.1 TIdTCPServer
3.4.1.1.1 The Role of Threads
3.4.1.1.2 Servers on Fibers
3.4.1.2 TIdUDPServer
3.4.1.3 TIdSimpleServer
3.4.2 Threaded Events
3.4.3 TCP Server Models
3.4.3.1 OnExecute
3.4.3.1.1 Example
3.4.3.2 Command Handlers
3.4.3.2.1 Example
3.4.4 Thread Schedulers
3.4.4.1 Thread Pooling
3.4.4.2 Included Thread Schedulers
3.4.4.2.1 TIdSchedulerOfThreadDefault
3.4.4.2.2 TIdSchedulerOfThreadPool
3.4.5 Zip Code Server
3.4.5.1 OnExecute Implementation
3.4.5.2 Support Code
3.4.5.3 OnConnect
3.4.5.4 OnExecute
3.4.5.4.1 Code – C#
3.4.5.4.2 Code – Delphi
3.4.5.4.3 Discussion
3.4.6 Command Handlers
3.4.6.1 Implementation
3.4.6.2 Example Protocol
3.4.6.3 Base Demo
3.4.6.4 Creating a Command Handler
3.4.6.5 Command Handler Support
3.4.6.5.1 Greeting
3.4.6.5.2 ReplyExceptionCode
3.4.6.5.3 ReplyUnknown
3.4.6.5.4 Other Properties
3.4.6.6 Testing the New Command
3.4.6.7 Implementing HELP
3.4.6.8 Automated HELP
3.4.6.9 Implementing DATETIME
3.4.6.10 Conclusion
4 UDP
4.1 Note
4.2 Reliability
4.3 Broadcasts
4.4 Packet Sizes
4.5 Confirmations
4.5.1 Overview
4.5.2 Acknowledgements
4.5.3 Sequencing
4.6 TIdUDPClient
4.7 TIdUDPServer
4.8 UDP Example – RBSOD
4.8.1 Overview
4.8.2 Usage
4.8.3 Client
4.8.4 Server
5 SMTP Protocol
5.1 What is SMTP?
5.2 How does SMTP work?
5.3 Indy SMTP Support
5.4 TIdSMTP
5.5 TIdMessage
5.6 Constructing the Message
5.7 Sending the Message
5.8 QuickSend
5.9 Send Mail Demo
5.10 More Information
6 POP3 Protocol
6.1 Basic Overview
6.2 POP3, the Deviant
6.2.1 How does POP3 differ?
6.3 Transactional
6.4 Connection Lifetime
6.5 Listing of Messages
6.6 Identifying Messages
6.7 Indy POP3 Client
6.8 Demo – POP3 Tool
6.8.1 Usage
6.8.2 Listing Messages
6.8.3 Deleting Messages
6.8.4 Retrieving Messages
6.8.4.1 Header
6.8.4.2 Raw
6.9 Demo – Simple retrieval in C#
6.9.1 Running the Demo
6.9.2 Output
6.10 More Information
7 HTTP Protocol
7.1 The Firewall Friendly Protocol
7.2 Demo – Minimal Web Server
7.3 Demo – Eliza Web
7.3.1 TEliza
7.3.2 Building Eliza Web
7.3.3 State Management
7.3.4 Running Eliza Web
7.4 More Information
8 Implementing Protocols
8.1 Protocol Terminology
8.1.1 Conversational
8.1.2 Plain Text
8.1.3 Command
8.1.4 Reply
8.1.5 Response
8.2 RFC Definitions
8.2.1 RFC Status Codes
8.2.1.1 Examples
8.2.2 RFC Reply
8.2.3 RFC Response
8.2.4 RFC Transactions
8.3 TIdRFCReply
8.4 ReplyTexts
8.5 The Chicken or the Egg?
8.6 Defining a Custom Protocol
8.7 Peer Simulation
8.8 Zip Code Protocol
8.8.1 Help
8.8.2 Lookup
8.8.3 Quit
9 Debugging
9.1 Logging
9.2 Peer Simulation
9.3 Record and Replay
10 Proxies
10.1 Transparent Proxies
10.1.1 IP Masquerading / Network Address Translation (NAT)
10.1.2 Mapped Ports / Tunnels
10.1.3 FTP User@Site Proxy
10.2 Non Transparent Proxies
10.2.1 SOCKS
10.2.2 HTTP (CERN)
11 IOHandler Classes
11.1 IOHandler Class
11.1.1 IOHandlerSocket
11.1.1.1 IOHandlerStack
11.1.1.1.1 SSLIOHandlerSocketBase
11.1.1.1.1.1 SSLIOHandlerSocketOpenSSL
11.1.1.2 IOHandlerChain
11.1.2 IOHandlerStream
12 Intercept Classes
12.1 Intercepts
12.2 Logging
12.3 Demo – Throttler
12.3.1 Special Notes
12.3.1.1 Exceptions May Occur
12.3.1.2 Clear the Cache
12.3.1.3 Non Aliased Host
12.3.2 Running the Demo
13 Encryption
13.1 SSL – Secure Sockets
13.1.1 Export Restrictions
13.1.2 Secure HTTP / HTTPS
13.1.3 Clients
13.1.4 Servers
13.1.5 Converting Certificates to PEM Format
13.1.5.1 Exporting the Certificate
13.1.5.2 Convert .pfx to .pem
13.1.5.3 Splitting the .pem File
13.1.5.4 Key.pem
13.1.5.5 Cert.pem
13.1.5.6 Root.pem
13.1.6 SSL Buddy
13.1.6.1 Generating Certificate Requests
13.1.6.2 Generating Self-Signed Certificates
13.1.6.3 Preparing Indy/IntraWeb Certificates
13.1.6.4 Extracting a Root Certificate
13.1.6.5 Installing Certificates
13.1.6.6 Obtaining SSL Buddy
14 Using C# and Visual Basic
14.1 Why Delphi?
14.2 What are TStream and IndyStrings?
14.2.1 Conversion – C#
14.2.2 Conversion – Visual Basic
14.3 .NET differences
14.4 What is the TId prefix for?
14.5 Examples
15 Indy 10 Overview
15.1 Indy 10 Status
15.2 Installing Concurrent Versions
15.3 Compatibility
15.4 Migration
15.5 Major Changes and Additions
15.5.1 .NET Support
15.5.2 Separation of Packages
15.5.3 IOHandler Restructuring
15.5.3.1 Method Signatures
15.5.4 TCP Server
15.5.4.1 Server Split
15.5.4.2 DFM Breakage
15.5.4.3 Raw Reads and Writes
15.5.4.4 New Event Sigature
15.5.4.5 Contexts
15.5.4.6 Schedulers
15.5.5 SSL
15.5.5.1 SSL Core
15.5.5.2 SSL Protocols
15.5.6 SASL
15.5.7 FTP
15.5.7.1 FTP Client
15.5.7.2 FTP Server
15.5.7.3 FTP List Parsing
15.5.8 Super Core
15.5.8.1 Network Interfaces
15.5.8.2 Fibers
15.5.8.3 Schedulers
15.5.8.4 Work Queues
15.5.8.5 Chains
15.5.8.6 Chain Engines
15.5.8.7 SuperCore Revealed
15.5.9 Other
15.6 Sample Conversions
15.6.1 SendMail
15.6.2 TCP Server
16 Threading
16.1 Concurrency
16.1.1 Terminology
16.1.1.1 Concurrency
16.1.1.2 Contention
16.1.1.3 Resource Protection
16.1.2 Resolving Contention
16.1.2.1 Read Only
16.1.2.2 Atomic Operations
16.1.2.3 Operating System Support
16.1.2.4 Explicit Protection
16.1.2.4.1 Critical Sections
16.1.2.4.1.1 Win32 API Critical Sections
16.1.2.4.1.2 Delphi 4 Standard Users
16.1.2.4.2 TMultiReadExclusiveWriteSynchronizer (TMREWS)
16.1.2.4.2.1 Delphi 4 and 5
16.1.2.4.2.2 Delphi 6
16.1.2.4.2.3 Kylix
16.1.2.4.3 Choosing Between Critical Sections and TMREWS
16.1.2.4.4 Mutexes
16.1.2.4.5 Semaphores
16.1.2.4.6 Events
16.1.2.5 Thread Safe Classes
16.1.2.6 Compartmentalization
16.2 Threads
16.2.1 What is a Thread?
16.2.2 Threading Advantages
16.2.2.1 Prioritization
16.2.2.2 Encapselation
16.2.2.3 Security
16.2.2.4 Multiple Processors
16.2.2.5 No Serialization
16.2.3 Processes vs. Threads
16.2.4 Threads vs. Processes
16.2.5 Hundreds of Threads
16.2.5.1 Realistic Thread Limits
16.2.6 Threadable and ThreadSafe
16.2.6.1 Threadable
16.2.6.2 Threadsafe
16.2.7 VCL Support
16.2.7.1 TThread
16.2.7.2 TThreadList
16.2.7.3 Thread Variables
16.2.7.4 Synchronization
16.2.8 Indy Support
16.2.8.1 TIdThread
16.2.8.1.1 Thread Names
16.2.8.2 TIdThreadComponent
16.2.8.3 TIdSync
16.2.8.4 TIdNotify
16.2.8.5 TIdThreadSafe
16.2.9 Common Problems
16.3 Eliminating Bottlenecks
16.3.1 Common Bottleneck Causes
16.3.1.1 Critical Section Implementation
16.3.1.2 TMREWS
16.3.1.2.1 Performance Comparison
16.3.1.3 Syncrhonizations
16.3.1.4 User Interface Updates
16.4 Fibers
17 Bonus Materials
17.1 Miscellany
17.1.1 Piracy and Unconventional Wisdom
17.1.1.1 Introduction
17.1.1.2 Show Me the Money
17.1.1.3 Ghost Sales
17.1.1.4 Cat and Mouse
17.1.1.5 A Little Piracy Can Be Good Now and Then
17.1.1.6 Financial Incentives
17.1.1.7 Your Software Will *NEVER* be Pirate Proof
17.1.1.8 Impact to YOUR Customers
17.1.1.9 Draconian Solutions
17.1.1.10 Creating Pirates
17.1.1.11 Example 1: Microsoft
17.1.1.12 Example 2: Record Companies
17.1.1.13 Release Often
17.1.1.14 Sell Benefits They Cannot Pirate
17.1.1.15 Make it Cheaper to Buy
17.1.1.16 Defend, Don’t Attack
17.1.1.17 Be Up Front
17.1.1.18 Goals of Piracy Prevention
17.1.1.19 DO’s of Piracy Protection
17.1.2 Biological Studies as the Basis of Encryption
17.1.3 Outsourcing and Dead Presidents
17.1.4 Developers are from Mars, Managers are from Venus
17.1.4.1 A Developer Says
17.1.4.1.1 I refactored it
17.1.4.1.2 Its an elegant implementation
17.1.4.1.3 I saved 2 bytes
17.1.4.1.4 It doesn’t need testing
17.1.4.1.5 It dosen’t need comments
17.1.4.1.6 I reused some code
17.1.4.1.7 Oops…. Never mind
17.1.4.1.8 Its not a bug, its a documentation issue
17.1.4.1.9 We need some more time
17.1.4.2 A Manager Says
17.1.4.2.1 I just read about x. I want the whole team to use x.
17.1.4.2.2 Just ship it.
17.1.4.2.3 I don’t need it “good”, I need it fast
17.1.4.2.4 If it will take you 4 weeks, 4 of you can do it in a week, right?
17.1.4.2.5 Can you make a use case diagram?
17.1.4.2.6 Will this affect the critical path?
17.1.6 What is important in life? Are C++ developers human?
17.2 Delphi
17.2.1 Why Delphi for .NET?
17.2.2 Porting Delphi applications to Delphi for the .NET framework
17.2.2.1 Special Note
17.2.2.2 Terms
17.2.2.2.1 CIL
17.2.2.2.2 CLR
17.2.2.2.3 CTS
17.2.2.2.4 CLS
17.2.2.2.5 Managed Code
17.2.2.2.6 Unmanaged Code
17.2.2.2.7 Assembly
17.2.2.3 Compilers / IDE’s
17.2.2.3.1 DCCIL (Diesel)
17.2.2.3.1.1 Beta
17.2.2.3.2 Delphi 8
17.2.2.3.3 SideWinder
17.2.2.3.4 Galileo
17.2.2.4 Frameworks
17.2.2.4.1 .Net Framework
17.2.2.4.2 WinForms
17.2.2.4.3 RTL
17.2.2.4.4 CLX
17.2.2.4.5 VCL for .Net
17.2.2.4.6 WinForms or VCL for .Net?
17.2.2.5 Additions
17.2.2.5.1 Mapping to CTS
17.2.2.5.2 Namespaces
17.2.2.5.3 Nested Types
17.2.2.5.4 Custom Attributes
17.2.2.5.5 Other
17.2.2.6 Restrictions
17.2.2.6.1 Unsafe Items
17.2.2.6.1.1 Unsafe Types
17.2.2.6.1.2 Unsafe Code
17.2.2.6.1.3 Unsafe Casts
17.2.2.6.2 Deprecated Functionality
17.2.2.7 Changes
17.2.2.7.1 Destruction
17.2.2.7.1.1 Deterministic Destruction
17.2.2.7.1.2 Non-Deterministic Destruction
17.2.2.7.2 Garbage Collection
17.2.2.8 Porting Steps
17.2.2.8.1 Remove Unsafe Warnings
17.2.2.8.2 Unit Namespaces
17.2.2.8.3 Convert DFM’s
17.2.2.8.4 Convert Project File
17.2.2.8.5 Resolve Class Differences
17.2.2.8.6 Add Luck
17.2.2.9 Credits
17.2.3 Developing single source Delphi – Win32, .NET, and Linux
17.2.3.1 Delphi 9
17.2.3.2 How?
17.2.3.3 Cross Platform
17.2.3.4 Platform Specific Features
17.2.3.5 Pure Code
17.2.3.5.1 Managed Code
17.2.3.5.2 Safe Code
17.2.3.5.3 P/Invoke Free
17.2.3.6 Delphi
17.2.3.6.1 Delphi 7
17.2.3.6.2 Delphi Magic
17.2.3.6.3 P/Invoke Usage
17.2.3.6.3.1 SysUtils Patch
17.2.3.6.4 Unsafe Code
17.2.3.7 .NET Common Error
17.2.3.7.1 Object reference not set to something or other
17.2.3.7.2 Object is not ready yet (XP style)
17.2.3.7.3 It’s a .NET AV
17.2.3.8 .NET – Things remembered
17.2.3.8.1 Pointers
17.2.3.8.2 Buffers (Untyped Variables)
17.2.3.8.3 Win32
17.2.3.8.4 Globals
17.2.3.8.4.1 Delphi Globals
17.2.3.8.5 Sets
17.2.3.9 Things Different
17.2.3.9.1 Strings
17.2.3.9.1.1 Immutable
17.2.3.9.1.2 Empty String
17.2.3.9.1.3 String Help
17.2.3.9.1.3.1 StringBuilder
17.2.3.9.1.3.2 AnsiString
17.2.3.9.1.3.3 TIdBuffer
17.2.3.9.2 TList / TStrings
17.2.3.9.3 Initialization and Finalization
17.2.3.9.3.1 Initialization
17.2.3.9.3.2 Finalization
17.2.3.9.4 Units
17.2.3.9.5 TStream
17.2.3.9.5.1 TStream – Win32
17.2.3.9.5.2 TStream – .NET
17.2.3.9.5.3 TStream – Example
17.2.3.9.5.4 TStream Problems
17.2.3.9.6 Variants
17.2.3.9.7 Typecasts
17.2.3.9.8 Constructors and Destructors
17.2.3.10 New Friends
17.2.3.10.1 StringBuilder
17.2.3.10.2 FCL
17.2.3.10.3 Byte Arrays
17.2.3.10.4 Unicode
17.2.3.10.5 True Language Interoperability
17.2.3.11 Handling Platform Differences
17.2.3.11.1 Example
17.2.3.11.2 Isolated Units
17.2.3.11.3 Polymorphs
17.2.3.11.4 Indy
17.3 Design
17.3.1 Short Circuits or Faulty Circuits?
17.3.2 Database Design and Modelling for Developers
17.3.2.1 Concepts
17.3.2.1.1 Unique Key
17.3.2.1.2 Primary Key
17.3.2.1.3 Foreign Key
17.3.2.1.4 Surrogate Key (a.k.a. Non Decomposable)
17.3.2.1.5 Intelligent Key (a.k.a. Decomposable Key)
17.3.2.1.6 Referential Integrity (RI)
17.3.2.2 Ground Rules
17.3.2.3 Database Design
17.3.2.3.1 Naming
17.3.2.3.1.1 Avoid Abbreviations
17.3.2.3.1.2 Do Not Use Spaces
17.3.2.3.1.3 Use Underscores
17.3.2.3.1.4 Use ID and Code Suffixes
17.3.2.3.1.4.1 Example
17.3.2.3.1.5 Name Followed by a Modifier
17.3.2.3.1.6 Liven Your Booleans
17.3.2.3.1.7 Define Your Booleans
17.3.2.3.1.7.1 Example Problem 1
17.3.2.3.1.7.2 Example Problem 2
17.3.2.3.1.8 Do Not Use Column Names That Match Parent Table Names
17.3.2.3.1.9 Link Tables
17.3.2.3.2 Tables
17.3.2.3.2.1 Make Table Names Singular
17.3.2.3.2.2 Use Referential Integrity
17.3.2.3.2.3 A Database with a View
17.3.2.3.2.4 Denormalization / Normalization
17.3.2.3.2.5 Primary Keys
17.3.2.3.2.5.1 Simple Keys
17.3.2.3.2.5.2 Avoid Compound Keys
17.3.2.3.2.5.3 Unique Names
17.3.2.3.2.5.4 Foreign Keys
17.3.2.3.2.5.5 Auto Generation
17.3.2.3.2.5.6 Get High
17.3.2.4 Happy Users
17.3.2.4.1 Pause and Review
17.3.2.4.2 Exercise
17.3.3 Dude, Where’s my business logic?
17.3.3.1 Introduction
17.3.3.2 About this Article
17.3.3.3 Goal
17.3.3.4 Terms
17.3.3.4.1 Tier
17.3.3.4.2 Layer
17.3.3.5 Evolution of a Problem
17.3.3.5.1 Desktop
17.3.3.5.2 Client Server
17.3.3.5.3 3 – Tier
17.3.3.6 What is Business Logic?
17.3.3.6.1 Delete Customer
17.3.3.6.2 Formatting
17.3.3.6.3 Exceptions
17.3.3.7 Systems Today
17.3.3.7.1 Client Server
17.3.3.7.2 N-Tier
17.3.3.7.2.1 Scenario 1
17.3.3.7.2.2 Scenario 2
17.3.3.7.3 Consolidation
17.3.3.8 Moving to the Middle Tier
17.3.3.8.1 Slippery Slope
17.3.3.8.2 Cheaper
17.3.3.8.3 Easier
17.3.3.8.4 Topology
17.3.3.8.5 Grow the Middle
17.3.3.8.6 Bottleneck
17.3.3.9 Obstacles
17.3.3.9.1 Habits
17.3.3.9.2 Procedures
17.3.3.9.3 Database Administrators
17.3.3.9.4 Tools
17.3.3.10 Solutions
17.3.3.10.1 Architect Policing
17.3.3.10.2 DA Education
17.3.3.10.3 Management Education
17.3.3.11 Further Reading
17.3.3.12 Conclusion
17.3.5 Tier Pressure and Isolationism
17.3.5.1 Physical Tiers
17.3.5.2 Tiers of Layers
17.3.5.3 Logical Limbo
17.3.5.4 Patterns
17.3.5.4.1 Storage Layer Driven Pattern
17.3.5.4.2 Presentation Layer Driven Pattern
17.3.5.4.3 Isolation Driven Pattern
17.3.5.4.4 Comparison
17.3.5.5 Partitioned Roles
17.3.5.5.1 Role Roaming
17.3.5.5.2 Small Teams
17.3.5.5.3 Tiny Teams and Lone Developers
17.4 Databases
17.4.1 Easier Database Transactions – Extending the Using Statement to Perform Automatic Database Transactions
17.4.2 Extending C# to Support SQL Syntax at Compile Time
17.4.2.1 Introduction
17.4.2.2 C Omega
17.4.2.3 Future Articles
17.4.2.4 Neither Meat nor Fish
17.4.2.5 Extreme Databases
17.4.2.6 One Language
17.4.2.7 Views
17.4.2.7.1 View Types
17.4.2.7.1.1 Tables / Views
17.4.2.7.1.2 Stored Procedures
17.4.2.7.1.3 Queries
17.4.2.7.2 Generation
17.4.2.8 Examples
17.4.2.8.1 Database
17.4.2.8.2 Code Samples
17.4.2.8.2.1 Reading from a View
17.4.2.8.2.1.1 Manual Read
17.4.2.8.2.2 Accessing Columns
17.4.2.8.2.2.1 Null
17.4.2.8.2.3 Inserting a Row
17.4.2.8.2.4 Updating a Row
17.4.2.8.2.5 Filtering Data
17.4.2.8.2.6 Other Operations
17.4.2.9 DataBindings
17.4.2.10 Supported Databases
17.4.2.11 Implementation Notes
17.4.2.11.1 Roots
17.4.2.11.2 .NET 2.0
17.4.2.11.3 C#
17.4.2.12 Open Source
17.5 Mobile Agents
17.5.1 Mobile Agents – Software on the Move
17.5.2 Origins
17.5.3 Focus on Mobility
17.5.4 Remoting versus Mobile Agents
17.5.5 No Single Solution
17.5.6 No Client, no Server
17.5.7 Items not Covered
17.5.8 Advantages
17.5.8.1 Single Code Base
17.5.8.2 No Interprocess Communication
17.5.8.3 No Deployment
17.5.8.4 Easily Modified
17.5.9 Disadvantages
17.5.9.1 Bandwidth
17.5.10 Concepts and Terms
17.5.10.1 Tarakan
17.5.10.2 Host
17.5.10.3 Spawn
17.5.10.4 Home
17.5.10.5 Gateway
17.5.11 Security using Gateways
17.5.12 Examples
17.5.12.1 Data Collection
17.5.12.1.1 Scenario
17.5.12.1.1.1 Traditional
17.5.12.1.1.2 Implementation
17.5.12.2 Data Collection – Larger Data
17.5.12.2.1 Scenario
17.5.12.2.1.1 Implementation
17.5.12.3 Network Mapping
17.5.12.3.1 Scenario
17.5.12.3.1.1 Implementation
17.5.12.4 Searching
17.5.12.4.1 Scenario
17.5.12.4.1.1 Implementation
17.5.12.5 Finding Resources to Complete Task
17.5.12.5.1 Scenario
17.5.12.5.1.1 Implementation
17.5.12.6 Distributed Processing
17.5.12.6.1 Scenario
17.5.12.7 Disconnected Processing
17.5.12.7.1 Scenario
17.5.12.7.1.1 Traditional
17.5.12.8 Pushing
17.5.12.8.1 Scenario
17.5.12.9 Hold and Store
17.5.12.9.1 Scenario 1
17.5.12.9.2 Scenario 2
17.5.12.10 Move from User to User
17.5.12.10.1 Scenario
17.5.12.10.1.1 Traditional
17.5.12.10.1.2 Implementation
17.5.12.11 Business Logic
17.6 .NET
17.6.1 Why .NET?
17.6.1.1 Like it or not, .NET is coming
17.6.1.2 Pure Code
17.6.1.2.1 Managed Code
17.6.1.2.2 Safe Code
17.6.1.2.3 P/Invoke Free
17.6.1.3 Reasons for .NET
17.6.1.3.1 “It’s big, and it’s Microsoft.”
17.6.1.3.2 Platform Potential
17.6.1.3.3 Standardized, Rich Class Libraries
17.6.1.3.4 The Future is Faster
17.6.1.3.4.1 Future Exception
17.6.1.3.5 Language Nuetral
17.6.1.3.5.1 Improved Visual Basic
17.6.1.3.5.2 Modernized C++
17.6.1.3.5.3 Delphi
17.6.1.3.6 Saying good-bye, and good riddance
17.6.1.3.6.1 Fewer Crashes
17.6.1.3.6.2 Memory Corruption
17.6.1.3.6.3 Access Violations
17.6.1.3.6.4 Code Misjumps
17.6.1.4 Debunking Myths
17.6.1.4.1 .NET has a Big Runtime.
17.6.1.4.2 .NET is Slow.
17.6.1.4.3 But I ported my application and it’s 100 times slower!
17.6.1.4.4 Loss of Control
17.6.1.4.5 .NET is Interpreted
17.6.1.5 Obstacles
17.6.1.5.1 C++
17.6.1.5.2 C#
17.6.1.5.3 Visual Basic
17.6.1.5.4 Existing Code
17.6.1.6 Java
17.6.1.6.1 Why not Java?
17.6.1.6.2 Java’s Future
17.6.1.7 The Future of .NET
17.6.1.7.1 Mainframes
17.6.1.7.2 Servers
17.6.1.7.3 Linux
17.6.1.7.4 Windows
17.6.1.8 Re-education
17.6.1.9 Summary
17.6.2 Storing Application Options and User Preferences in .NET
17.6.2.1 Why not INI, Registry or XML?
17.6.2.1.1 INI Files
17.6.2.1.2 Registry
17.6.2.1.3 Application.config
17.6.2.1.4 System.XML
17.6.2.2 What to use instead?
17.6.2.3 Typed Datasets
17.6.2.4 Simple Demo
17.6.2.5 Conclusion
17.6.3 For C# – For and For More
17.6.3.1 Code
17.6.4 Displaying and Working with Forms
17.6.4.1 Non Modal
17.6.4.1.1 Pattern
17.6.4.1.2 Disposal
17.6.4.2 Modal
17.6.4.2.1 Pattern
17.6.4.2.2 Disposal
17.6.4.2.3 Returning a Result
17.6.4.3 Passing Data
17.6.4.4 Static Show
17.6.4.5 Keeping a Reference
17.6.5 Obtaining Current DataTable Row for a DataGrid
17.6.5.1 Introduction
17.6.5.2 Code
17.6.5.3 Position
17.6.5.4 Shortcutting
17.6.6 Dynamically Loading Assemblies

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