C# Trivia Quiz Part 1 - Answers

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David Grant — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 22:06:50 GMT

Was the term "COM99" before or after "NGWS" ?

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Matt Davis — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 22:22:22 GMT

I had fun with this one... I had a few different answers to some things though...

1) Isn't the answer 5 (counting goto)?

2) Aren't there some special runtime cases (eg remoting, COM interop and P/Invoke arg marshaling) that don't require that the caller's current value be marshaled to the callee in the case of "out"?

4) The Java vs C# religious flame-war that first came to my mind was Java's "virtual by default" behavior (checked exceptions was right behind).

Thanks for the trivia- always fun!

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KJK::Hyperion — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 23:06:10 GMT

What about "COM+ Runtime" (the still ubiquitous "Cor")? and "COM+ 2.0" (which was used to describe the extensions to the PE format)? did they come before or after NGWS?

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kfarmer@microsoft.com — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 23:20:31 GMT

Actually, the language design meetings I've been to were in a small conference room on the second floor of building *41*.

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ericgu — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 23:35:48 GMT

David, KJK:

There was COM99, COM+, COM 2.0, but IIRC they didn't refer to the whole system the way NGWS did.

Matt:

1) Goto is not a loop construct. You can use it for loops, but it's more general-purpose.
2) With interop, the compiler trusts that your definition is trustworthy, but you can lie.
4) Yes, that's a good one, too.

KFarmer,

Shhh!!! Now the protesters will now which building to show up at!

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Gabriel Lozano-Morán — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 23:37:04 GMT

Actually .NET has grown from COM+ 2.5, ASP 4.0 and NGWS. COM+ 2.0 was introduced in W2K as the successor of COM+ 1.0.

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Javier G. Lozano — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 03:15:31 GMT

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Gabriel Lozano-Morán — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 18:15:23 GMT

I have read it somewhere in an interview can't remember who it was, someone from the CLR team...

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Miral — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 04:34:14 GMT

If you're going to eliminate "foreach" and "do" because of similarity to "for" and "while", then you have to eliminate "for" for the same reason, leaving only a single loop construct. It's possible to write everything using only "while"s, though it looks a bit ugly in some cases :)

And the default indexer is called "Item", not "Items". Presumably so that you can go someCollection.Item("foo"), which sounds a little more natural than someCollection.Items("foo").

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Leon — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 01:20:15 GMT

'you might want to call it "Characters". Or, perhaps "DramatisPersona"...'
good one.

"Actually, the language design meetings I've been to were in a small conference room on the second floor of building *41*."

... and the only other people in those meetings were the janitor and your secretary's cat? I'm afraid your invitations might have been tampered with KJK.

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Olivier le Pichon — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:59:18 GMT

What about Omniware for a pre .NET name? Colusa have been bought by Microsoft in 1996 and I think COM97 was the first MS name.

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Olivier Le Pichon — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 19:12:45 GMT

Mary Kirkland spoke about COM+ in volume 12 number 12 of MSJ (December 1997) but it's only because the shift to ORE (Omniware Runtime Environment ) was not done?