TOP ASP.NET interview questions
- Describe the difference between a Thread and a Process?
- What is a Windows Service and how does its lifecycle differ from a "standard" EXE?
- What is the maximum amount of memory any single process on Windows can address? Is this different than the maximum virtual memory for the system? How would this affect a system design?
- What is the difference between an EXE and a DLL?
- What is strong-typing versus weak-typing? Which is preferred? Why?
- What's wrong with a line like this? DateTime.Parse(myString
- What are PDBs? Where must they be located for debugging to work?
- What is cyclomatic complexity and why is it important?
- Write a standard lock() plus double check to create a critical section around a variable access.
- What is FullTrust? Do GAC'ed assemblies have FullTrust?
- What benefit does your code receive if you decorate it with attributes demanding specific Security permissions?
- What does this do? gacutil /l | find /i "about"
- What does this do? sn -t foo.dll
- What ports must be open for DCOM over a firewall? What is the purpose of Port 135?
- Contrast OOP and SOA. What are tenets of each
- How does the XmlSerializer work? What ACL permissions does a process using it require?
- Why is catch(Exception) almost always a bad idea?
- What is the difference between Debug.Write and Trace.Write? When should each be used?
- What is the difference between a Debug and Release build? Is there a significant speed difference? Why or why not?
- Does JITting occur per-assembly or per-method? How does this affect the working set?
- Contrast the use of an abstract base class against an interface?
- What is the difference between a.Equals(b) and a == b?
- In the context of a comparison, what is object identity versus object equivalence?
- How would one do a deep copy in .NET?
- Explain current thinking around IClonable.
- What is boxing?
- Is string a value type or a reference type?
