C Sharp Interview Questions and Answers

1. What’s the advantage of using System.Text.StringBuilder over System.String?

Ans : StringBuilder is more efficient in the cases, where a lot of manipulation is done to the text. Strings are immutable, so each time it’s being operated on, a new instance is created.

2. What’s the C# equivalent of C++ catch (…), which was a catch-all statement for any possible exception?

Ans : A catch block that catches the exception of type System.Exception. You can also omit the parameter data type in this case and just write catch {}.

3. Can multiple catch blocks be executed?

Ans : No, once the proper catch code fires off, the control is transferred to the finally block (if there are any), and then whatever follows the finally block.

4. Why is it a bad idea to throw your own exceptions?

Ans : Well, if at that point you know that an error has occurred, then why not write the proper code to handle that error instead of passing a new Exception object to the catch block? Throwing your own exceptions signifies some design flaws in the project.

5. How’s the DLL Hell problem solved in .NET?

Ans : Assembly versioning allows the application to specify not only the library it needs to run (which was available under Win32), but also the version of the assembly.

6. What’s a satellite assembly?

Ans : When you write a multilingual or multi-cultural application in .NET, and want to distribute the core application separately from the localized modules, the localized assemblies that modify the core application are called satellite assemblies.

7. What debugging tools come with the .NET SDK?

Ans : CorDBG – command-line debugger, and DbgCLR – graphic debugger. Visual Studio .NET uses the DbgCLR. To use CorDbg, you must compile the original C# file using the /debug switch.

8. What does assert() do?

Ans : In debug compilation, assert takes in a Boolean condition as a parameter, and shows the error dialog if the condition is false. The program proceeds without any interruption if the condition is true.

9. Why are there five tracing levels in System.Diagnostics.TraceSwitcher?

Ans : The tracing dumps can be quite verbose and for some applications that are constantly running you run the risk of overloading the machine and the hard drive there. Five levels range from None to Verbose, allowing to fine-tune the tracing activities.

10. What are three test cases you should go through in unit testing?

Ans : Positive test cases (correct data, correct output), negative test cases (broken or missing data, proper handling), exception test cases (exceptions are thrown and caught properly).

11. What are advantages and disadvantages of Microsoft-provided data provider classes in ADO.NET?

Ans : SQLServer.NET data provider is high-speed and robust, but requires SQL Server license purchased from Microsoft. OLE-DB.NET is universal for accessing other sources, like Oracle, DB2, Microsoft Access and Informix, but it’s a .NET layer on top of OLE layer, so not the fastest thing in the world. ODBC.NET is a deprecated layer provided for backward compatibility to ODBC engines.

12. Explain ACID rule of thumb for transactions.

Ans : Transaction must be Atomic (it is one unit of work and does not dependent on previous and following transactions), Consistent (data is either committed or roll back, no “in-between” case where something has been updated and something hasn’t), Isolated (no transaction sees the intermediate results of the current transaction), Durable (the values persist if the data had been committed even if the system crashes right after).

C# DotNet Questions

1. What’s the implicit name of the parameter that gets passed into the class’ set method?

Value, and its datatype depends on whatever variable we’re changing.

2. How do you inherit from a class in C#?

Place a colon and then the name of the base class. Notice that it’s double colon in C++.

3. Does C# support multiple inheritance?

No, use interfaces instead.

4. When you inherit a protected class-level variable, who is it available to?

Classes in the same namespace.

5. Are private class-level variables inherited?

Yes, but they are not accessible, so looking at it you can honestly say that they are not inherited. But they are.

6. Describe the accessibility modifier protected internal.

It’s available to derived classes and classes within the same Assembly (and naturally from the base class it’s declared in).

7. C# provides a default constructor for me. I write a constructor that takes a string as a parameter, but want to keep the no parameter one. How many constructors should I write?

Two. Once you write at least one constructor, C# cancels the freebie constructor, and now you have to write one yourself, even if there’s no implementation in it.

8. What’s the top .NET class that everything is derived from?

System.Object.

9. How’s method overriding different from overloading?

When overriding, you change the method behavior for a derived class. Overloading simply involves having a method with the same name within the class.

10. What does the keyword virtual mean in the method definition?

The method can be over-ridden.

11. Can you declare the override method static while the original method is non-static?

No, you can’t, the signature of the virtual method must remain the same, only the keyword virtual is changed to keyword override.

12. Can you override private virtual methods?

No, moreover, you cannot access private methods in inherited classes, have to be protected in the base class to allow any sort of access.

13. Can you prevent your class from being inherited and becoming a base class for some other classes?

Yes, that’s what keyword sealed in the class definition is for. The developer trying to derive from your class will get a message: cannot inherit from Sealed class WhateverBaseClassName. It’s the same concept as final class in Java.

14. Can you allow class to be inherited, but prevent the method from being over-ridden?

Yes, just leave the class public and make the method sealed.

15. What’s an abstract class?

A class that cannot be instantiated. A concept in C++ known as pure virtual method. A class that must be inherited and have the methods over-ridden. Essentially, it’s a blueprint for a class without any implementation.

JAVA Vs. DOTNET

# JAVA

• Java is developed by Sun Microsystems
• Java is a light weight language and can be run on almost all the OS(it require less hardware)
• Java you need to confirm it that all the objects are destroyed before application quits.
• Java has no standard tool is available. Although, many third party IDEs are available
• Java is a programming language designed to be run on many different platforms, and so uses a common language which has to be compiled and run on different platforms (eg. windows, mac and linux).Any OS which is able to install JVMJava can be used to write programs for many different operating systems
• Java interface, a null object reference maps to the VT_NULL VARIANT value
• Java interface, all failure HRESULTs from the underlying COM interface are reported by throwing a com.ca.openroad.COMException containing that HRESULT value

# .NET

• .Net is developed by Microsoft Corporation
• .Net needs a very heavy framework to be installed which have higher Hardware requirements too compared to Java
• .Net garbage collector runs at a certain interval and see is there is any memory occupied by anyobject whose parent is now finished processing (for eg. you closed an application), in this casethe garbage collector automatically removes the reference of that object and free up the memory
• .Net a standard development IDE is available that is Microsoft Visual Studio
• .NET, takes on a different approach, by allowing you to program in any language you choose,but has compilers for many different languages that generates a platform specific code (i.e.Microsoft or Windows).
• .NET can be used to make any programming language into a Windows program.NET COM interoperability layer maps null .NET object references to VT_EMPTY. VT_NULLis mapped to a special object type of class “System.DBNull”.
• .NET COM interoperability layer does something similar, using theInteropServices.COMException class. However, it uses that exception class only as a lastresort. If there is already a .NET exception class that reasonably represents the meaning of aparticular HRESULT, the interoperability layer throws that .NET exception instead of a COMException.