C# Types

While having discussion with my friend yesterday, I realized that “There's plenty of room in C# Types”.

Some of the questions i faced were:

Why did they go for Value Types?

What is actually a Stack and Heap?

Many more fundamental doubts arised. I am now in quest for answering those fundamental questions.

The First, among the plethora of doubts would be to clear “How much memory is allocated in Stack and in Heap for a simple program like the one below?”

//simple.cs
namespace ManiSoft.Practice
{
internal class Simple
{
public static void Main()
{
int x;
x = 7;
}
}
}

Also wondering at

Is x a Value Type? (B'cause it is within a Reference Type)

Ok. Out to read some basic stuff from Jeff Richter.

ASP.NET Application Hosting

Yesterday, I was successful in hosting my sample ASP.NET web application over the free ASP.NET web hosting facility available at http://europe.webmatrixhosting.net/

The best part was the usage of the System.Web.Mail namespace's MailMessage Type.

Pretty cool stuff I thought.

Just set the properties of the email message to be sent; choose the smtp server and lo, message is sent.

since my company's smtp server was temporarily not receiving mails, learnt about Relay server and other SMTP related stuff. (Thanks to my SysAdmin, Mr. Sudeesh)

Currently using hotmail's smtp server.

The smtp server was OK today and hence i can now use the Web.config to store the smtp server address.

All it took to put up two pages of functional ASP.NET site was 2 hours.

My sample application stands at http://ideamani.europe.webmatrixhosting.net/

GTG Treking....

Back on Monday!