University of Houston
Department of Computer Science

In partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of
Master of Science


Sushil Digewade
will defend his thesis

.NET Assembly and Configuration Management Tools


Abstract

With the .NET initiative, Microsoft has introduced a much-improved Windows development platform. VS.NET is the development environment of the .NET platform. VS.NET is relatively new and with the intent of improving it, Microsoft has enabled the extensibility features on it. The thesis work comprises of design and development of two tools that would be operated from within the VS.NET. These tools would be used during development and deployment of software on the .NET platform. The primary goal of these tools is to improve the productivity of a .NET application developer. The configuration file editor tool, named SmartEdit, facilitates a developer to efficiently edit the XML based configuration files of a .NET application. The SmartEdit tool is integrated in the VS.NET and could be invoked directly on a configuration file. The other tool, DView, would be used to view the dependencies of the installation units, or the assemblies, of the .NET platform. The DView tool is external tool and could be attached to the VS.NET. This tool could be used in the development as well as the deployment environment.

Date: Monday, August 9, 2005
Time: 10:00 AM
Place: 550-PGH



Faculty, students, and the general public are invited.
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Venkat Subramaniam