SG - SMA

This Study Guide pulls together, in one place, most of the things we discuss in CSE681 - Software Modeling & Analysis, e.g., references to presentations, notes, and code. You may find it easier to locate key resources here, rather than looking through a series of lecture pages.

Resources used Throughout this Course
Presentations	Code Examples
Past Midterm Exams Midterm #1 - Fall 15 - Instructor's Solution Midterm #2 - Fall 15 - Instructor's Solution Midterm #3 - Fall 15 - Instructor's Solution Midterm #4 - Fall 15 - Instructor's Solution System Architecture and Program Design Software Architecture, pdf Definitions, important properties, concepts, organizing principles, discusses Operational Concept Documents (OCDs) System Structure, pdf Partitions, Communication, Sharing, Control Software Structure Research, pdf Research results showing why dependencies are so important. Packages, pdf Defines structure for packages, motivates their use. Software Design, pdf Goals for design of software. Design Patterns Course devoted to intermediate level software structure. We will discuss a few of the design patterns in this course. Software Product Model, pdf Diagram illustrating Application-side and Solution-side Software Artifacts. Introduction to the Web, pdf Survey of the Web, its architecture, history, and technologies. SG - Architecture Shares many links with this page but omits those that aren't directly related to Software Architecture. Software Modeling and Documentation What is a Program? What an odd question to ask! UML Notation, pdf Presents Universal Modeling Language (UML): Activity, Package, class, sequence, state diagrams, & structure charts. SG - Operational Concept Document (OCD) An outline, usage samples, diagram samples, issues samples, document samples. Architectural Concept Survival Guide, pdf Some "Do"s and some "Don't"s for writing OCDs. Project Center Use Cases, pdf Good example of analysis of application uses - a core part of an OCD. What a Software Architect Does, pdf Products and Activities of a Software Architect. Structure, Design, and Implementation Notes Top-down, Bottom-up, Incremental Design, Partitioning, Application-side vs Solution-side, Package Structure. Delegation, Asynch Messaging, Robustness. Threads and Queues: Windows Process Model, pdf Diagram - Structure of Windows Process: memory, handles, resources. Memory Mapped Files, pdf Diagram - Illustrates how virtual memory and memory sharing work. .Net Threads, pdf Creation, and use of threads, synchronization. Discusses potential problems with threaded designs. Asynchronous Systems, pdf What is an Asynchronous System and why should I care? Queuing Analysis, pdf Analysis of queue loading - queue length and message transit time. Multi-Threaded Systems, pdf Why we use multi-threaded designs and their properties. Network Communication: .Net Sockets, pdf How sockets and socket-based systems work. Windows Communication Foundation, pdf Survey of .Net's most powerful communication mechanisms. .Net Remoting, pdf An older .Net communication library, still used to communicate between Application Domains - won't be discussed in detail. Windows GUI Programming: Basic Windows, pdf How do Windows-based Graphical User Iterfaces (GUIs) work? Windows Presentation Foundation, pdf Survey of new .Net GUI framework. Vector Graphics, sophisticated event and dependency models. Support for 2D and 3D drawing, & building Forms with controls. C# Programming & .Net Framework C# vs. C++, pdf Compares C# to C++ starting with differences in their object models. C# Programming Concepts, pdf Discusses managed code, garbage collection, and managed interfaces. IDisposable, pdf How to implement the Disposable Pattern. .Net Framework, pdf Summary of most important namespaces and classes. XML, XPath, & XSLT, pdf Syntax of the XML metalanguage and its friends XPath and XSLT. XML Parse Tree, pdf Diagram - In memory representation of XML document. Introduction to LINQ, pdf Introduction to Language Integrated Query (LINQ). Application Domains, pdf An isolation and interception mechanism - part of every process running managed code. Interception, pdf Injection of interception code between function invocations and execution, and between execution and return. Attributes, pdf A facility for programming declaratively. Managed Code: C++/CLI - managed C++, pdf 2nd generation managed C++. C++/CLI is a bridge between managed and native code.	C# Language Demos C# Syntax Examples Demonstrate arrays, properties, indexers, simple reflection on types, and disposing. C# Equivalence Demo Distinguish between the four methods of determining object equivalence. Method Parameters Demo Illustrate pass value and reference types by value and Reference. Using Delegates Demonstrate extensions, LINQ, delegate shortcuts, lamdas. LINQ Examples Examples of LINQ Queries, LinqToXml, Linq Binding XML file to WPF display. Delegate Demos, Delegate Structure, vsd Illustrate the Publish/Subscribe pattern supported by .Net delegates and its syntax. File Handling Demos Demonstrates opening and reading files. Simple multi-package demo. Type Conversion Demos Illustrates use of casts, primitive Parse functions, and Convert class. Collections Demos Examples of Arrays, SortedList, HashTable, and GenericList. .Net Containers Small demos for ArrayList, GenericList, GenericHashSet, HashTable, LinkedList, Queue, SortedList, Stack, Utility. Command Line Handling Discovers files in current directory matching a pattern from command line, opens each C# file, and reads a few lines. Navigate Directory tree Executes a depth first walk of the directory tree rooted at a path specified on the command line. Reusable Navigation with Delegates Makes the navigator, above, reusable with the help of delegates that provide file and directory notifications. Reflection Demo Loads an assembly and uses reflection to inquire about its types. Serialization Demo Small demonstration of serialization using memory stream and SOAP formatter. XML Processing XML Applications Demonstrations of XmlTextReader, XmlTexWriter, XmlNodeReader, & XmlDocument. LINQ Examples Illustrates LINQ to XML Create XML with XDocument Uses XDocument class to create and analyze XML. Form Demonstrations C# Windows Form Creation of, and communication between, simple forms. C# WinForm with Browse Control Form using browse control dialog to select files. Dialog Demo Illustrates need for multi-threading in Graphical User Interface applications. Form.Invoke Demo Shows how to safely communicate between a worker thread and a Form's UI thread. Form.BeginInvoke Demo Uses asynchronous invoke to communicate between a worker thread and a Form's UI thread. Windows Presentation Foundation Demonstrations WPF Wizard Demo Project generated by Visual Studio WPF Wizard with just a little code added. WPF Controls Illustrates how to use WPF Controls with samples of half a dozen in action. WPF Routed Events Shows you benefits of built in routed event model. WPF Attached Properties Demonstrates WPF property system. WPF Custom Element Shows how to pull UI code into a named element that can be applied to any window. WPF Triggers Illustrates how to do custom event mapping. WPF Drawing - Bar Chart Demonstrates vector drawing and fill capability in WPF, e.g., 2D graphics. WPF Lab Manager Prototype Prototype for a CASE project, illustrates how to build interesting user interfaces with WPF. WPF All code, no Xaml WPF supports both imperative and declarative programming of graphics displays. This demo uses all imperative code. Windows Communication Foundation wsHttp self-hosted service Demonstrates of self-hosted service using web service extensions - WS*, Requires digital certificate Demo protocols with self-hosted service Demonstrates several protocols provided by WCF, e.g., basicHttp - clear text web service, wsHttp - secured web service, netTcp - binary network protocol. Demo activation modes Illustrates three activation modes that provide alternate service host management for its servcie objects. Demo TCP bindings A socket-like service but with a much higher-level programming interface. Demo Duplex communication Service with two-way communication using callbacks. Demo streaming channel Service uses sessions to manage sending a stream of binary data. Message passing communication Communiation based on sending XML structured messages - the primary form of communication we use in this course. File Streaming File transfer using the streaming channel. WCF Peer-To-Peer communication Chat-like demo that illustrates communication between identical agents which both initiate request messages and receive and process other agent's messages. Self-Hosted File-view Service Combines WCF and WPF to build a remote file viewer. Self-Hosted Strings Service Simple communication that sends strings. WCF Wizard-based Service Illustrates what the wizard builds - almost never quite what you want. It's usually easier to start from on of these examples. Threads and Synchronization Basic .Net threads Demonstrate .Net threads Starting Threads Illustrates several different syntax constructions for starting .Net threads Wait for .Net event Shows how to wait for an event using .Net monitor C# Blocking Queue Uses .Net Monitor for locking and notification Queued Messages Illustrates communication between threads using enqueued messages Queued Messages with Synchronized Methods Illustrates using asynchronous calls with Synchronized Methods .Net Tasks Demonstrates use of .Net Tasks which spawn thread pool threads for asynchronous processing .Net Tasks with Continuations Illustrates how Task continuations work, e.g., call backs when thread complete's its work Threads and Tasks Illustrate use of .Net Threads and Tasks ThreadDemos - Async Await Pattern Illustrates use of the new Async Await pattern. Process Management Illustrate use of Process class Concurrent File Access Demonstrates concurrent file access with both readers and writers AsyncExamples Shows how to make asynchronous calls to both local and remote objects. Thread Pool Demo Illustrates how to run a method on a thread pool thread and receive a callback when the method completes. BackgroundWorker Thread Illustrates use of worker thread and Form.Invoke in a WinForm application. synch Shows how to serialize access to shared resources using Win32 threads and synchronizing constructs. WorkerThread One more demonstration of threading under .Net. ProcessDemoWin32 Shows how to programmatically start a process using the Win32 API. System Software Process Demo Illustrates programatic creation and managment of Windows processes. High Resolution Timer Reusable component that is 10,000 times more precise than the standard Windows clocks. Measures microsecond intervals. sockets Demonstates .Net socket clients and servers. Message Framing Demonstates framing messages in socket-based communication. Message Framing with Threads and Queues, Message Framing structure Adds threads and queues - realistic detail - to previous example. System Prototypes Parser Prototype, Parser Structure, vsd Core of code analyzer - has Tokenizer, TokenCollector, Parser, Rules, and Actions. Peer-to-Peer Communication Prototype Uses Client and Server parts to build a Peer-to-Peer messaging system. Simplified Test Harness, Test Harness, Test Harness Structure, vsd Test Harness loads assemblies, looks for ITest interface, creates test objects and executes them. Special Purpose Packages Concurrent Access to Files Supports access to files in an environment with concurrent readers and writers. Base64 Encoding Converts binary data to and from character form. Othen used in XML messaging channels to send binary data.

Resources used Throughout this Course

Presentations

Code Examples

Past Midterm Exams

System Architecture and Program Design

Software Architecture, pdf
Definitions, important properties, concepts, organizing principles, discusses Operational Concept Documents (OCDs)
System Structure, pdf
Partitions, Communication, Sharing, Control
Software Structure Research, pdf
Research results showing why dependencies are so important.
Packages, pdf
Defines structure for packages, motivates their use.
Software Design, pdf
Goals for design of software.
Design Patterns
Course devoted to intermediate level software structure. We will discuss a few of the design patterns in this course.
Software Product Model, pdf
Diagram illustrating Application-side and Solution-side Software Artifacts.
Introduction to the Web, pdf
Survey of the Web, its architecture, history, and technologies.
SG - Architecture
Shares many links with this page but omits those that aren't directly related to Software Architecture.

Software Modeling and Documentation

What is a Program?
What an odd question to ask!
UML Notation, pdf
Presents Universal Modeling Language (UML): Activity, Package, class, sequence, state diagrams, & structure charts.
SG - Operational Concept Document (OCD)
An outline, usage samples, diagram samples, issues samples, document samples.
Architectural Concept Survival Guide, pdf
Some "Do"s and some "Don't"s for writing OCDs.
Project Center Use Cases, pdf
Good example of analysis of application uses - a core part of an OCD.
What a Software Architect Does, pdf
Products and Activities of a Software Architect.
Structure, Design, and Implementation Notes
Top-down, Bottom-up, Incremental Design, Partitioning, Application-side vs Solution-side, Package Structure. Delegation, Asynch Messaging, Robustness.

Threads and Queues:

Windows Process Model, pdf
Diagram - Structure of Windows Process: memory, handles, resources.
Memory Mapped Files, pdf
Diagram - Illustrates how virtual memory and memory sharing work.
.Net Threads, pdf
Creation, and use of threads, synchronization.
Discusses potential problems with threaded designs.
Asynchronous Systems, pdf What is an Asynchronous System and why should I care?
Queuing Analysis, pdf
Analysis of queue loading - queue length and message transit time.
Multi-Threaded Systems, pdf
Why we use multi-threaded designs and their properties.

Network Communication:

.Net Sockets, pdf
How sockets and socket-based systems work.
Windows Communication Foundation, pdf
Survey of .Net's most powerful communication mechanisms.
.Net Remoting, pdf
An older .Net communication library, still used to communicate between Application Domains - won't be discussed in detail.

Windows GUI Programming:

Basic Windows, pdf
How do Windows-based Graphical User Iterfaces (GUIs) work?
Windows Presentation Foundation, pdf
Survey of new .Net GUI framework.
Vector Graphics, sophisticated event and dependency models.
Support for 2D and 3D drawing, & building Forms with controls.

C# Programming & .Net Framework

C# vs. C++, pdf
Compares C# to C++ starting with differences in their object models.
C# Programming Concepts, pdf
Discusses managed code, garbage collection, and managed interfaces.
IDisposable, pdf
How to implement the Disposable Pattern.
.Net Framework, pdf
Summary of most important namespaces and classes.
XML, XPath, & XSLT, pdf
Syntax of the XML metalanguage and its friends XPath and XSLT.
XML Parse Tree, pdf
Diagram - In memory representation of XML document.
Introduction to LINQ, pdf
Introduction to Language Integrated Query (LINQ).
Application Domains, pdf
An isolation and interception mechanism - part of every process running managed code.
Interception, pdf
Injection of interception code between function invocations and execution, and between execution and return.
Attributes, pdf
A facility for programming declaratively.

Managed Code:

C++/CLI - managed C++, pdf
2nd generation managed C++. C++/CLI is a bridge between managed and native code.

C# Language Demos

C# Syntax Examples
Demonstrate arrays, properties, indexers, simple reflection on types, and disposing.
C# Equivalence Demo
Distinguish between the four methods of determining object equivalence.
Method Parameters Demo
Illustrate pass value and reference types by value and Reference.
Using Delegates
Demonstrate extensions, LINQ, delegate shortcuts, lamdas.
LINQ Examples
Examples of LINQ Queries, LinqToXml, Linq Binding XML file to WPF display.
Delegate Demos, Delegate Structure, vsd
Illustrate the Publish/Subscribe pattern supported by .Net delegates and its syntax.
File Handling Demos
Demonstrates opening and reading files. Simple multi-package demo.
Type Conversion Demos
Illustrates use of casts, primitive Parse functions, and Convert class.
Collections Demos
Examples of Arrays, SortedList, HashTable, and GenericList.
.Net Containers
Small demos for ArrayList, GenericList, GenericHashSet, HashTable, LinkedList, Queue, SortedList, Stack, Utility.
Command Line Handling
Discovers files in current directory matching a pattern from command line, opens each C# file, and reads a few lines.
Navigate Directory tree
Executes a depth first walk of the directory tree rooted at a path specified on the command line.
Reusable Navigation with Delegates
Makes the navigator, above, reusable with the help of delegates that provide file and directory notifications.
Reflection Demo
Loads an assembly and uses reflection to inquire about its types.
Serialization Demo
Small demonstration of serialization using memory stream and SOAP formatter.

XML Processing

XML Applications
Demonstrations of XmlTextReader, XmlTexWriter, XmlNodeReader, & XmlDocument.
LINQ Examples
Illustrates LINQ to XML
Create XML with XDocument
Uses XDocument class to create and analyze XML.

Form Demonstrations

C# Windows Form
Creation of, and communication between, simple forms.
C# WinForm with Browse Control
Form using browse control dialog to select files.
Dialog Demo
Illustrates need for multi-threading in Graphical User Interface applications.
Form.Invoke Demo
Shows how to safely communicate between a worker thread and a Form's UI thread.
Form.BeginInvoke Demo
Uses asynchronous invoke to communicate between a worker thread and a Form's UI thread.

Windows Presentation Foundation Demonstrations

WPF Wizard Demo
Project generated by Visual Studio WPF Wizard with just a little code added.
WPF Controls
Illustrates how to use WPF Controls with samples of half a dozen in action.
WPF Routed Events
Shows you benefits of built in routed event model.
WPF Attached Properties
Demonstrates WPF property system.
WPF Custom Element
Shows how to pull UI code into a named element that can be applied to any window.
WPF Triggers
Illustrates how to do custom event mapping.
WPF Drawing - Bar Chart
Demonstrates vector drawing and fill capability in WPF, e.g., 2D graphics.
WPF Lab Manager Prototype
Prototype for a CASE project, illustrates how to build interesting user interfaces with WPF.
WPF All code, no Xaml
WPF supports both imperative and declarative programming of graphics displays. This demo uses all imperative code.

Windows Communication Foundation

wsHttp self-hosted service
Demonstrates of self-hosted service using web service extensions - WS*, Requires digital certificate
Demo protocols with self-hosted service
Demonstrates several protocols provided by WCF, e.g., basicHttp - clear text web service, wsHttp - secured web service, netTcp - binary network protocol.
Demo activation modes
Illustrates three activation modes that provide alternate service host management for its servcie objects.
Demo TCP bindings
A socket-like service but with a much higher-level programming interface.
Demo Duplex communication
Service with two-way communication using callbacks.
Demo streaming channel
Service uses sessions to manage sending a stream of binary data.
Message passing communication
Communiation based on sending XML structured messages - the primary form of communication we use in this course.
File Streaming
File transfer using the streaming channel.
WCF Peer-To-Peer communication
Chat-like demo that illustrates communication between identical agents which both initiate request messages and receive and process other agent's messages.
Self-Hosted File-view Service
Combines WCF and WPF to build a remote file viewer.
Self-Hosted Strings Service
Simple communication that sends strings.
WCF Wizard-based Service
Illustrates what the wizard builds - almost never quite what you want. It's usually easier to start from on of these examples.

Threads and Synchronization

Basic .Net threads
Demonstrate .Net threads
Starting Threads
Illustrates several different syntax constructions for starting .Net threads
Wait for .Net event
Shows how to wait for an event using .Net monitor
C# Blocking Queue
Uses .Net Monitor for locking and notification
Queued Messages
Illustrates communication between threads using enqueued messages
Queued Messages with Synchronized Methods
Illustrates using asynchronous calls with Synchronized Methods
.Net Tasks
Demonstrates use of .Net Tasks which spawn thread pool threads for asynchronous processing
.Net Tasks with Continuations
Illustrates how Task continuations work, e.g., call backs when thread complete's its work
Threads and Tasks
Illustrate use of .Net Threads and Tasks
ThreadDemos - Async Await Pattern
Illustrates use of the new Async Await pattern.
Process Management
Illustrate use of Process class
Concurrent File Access
Demonstrates concurrent file access with both readers and writers
AsyncExamples
Shows how to make asynchronous calls to both local and remote objects.
Thread Pool Demo
Illustrates how to run a method on a thread pool thread and receive a callback when the method completes.
BackgroundWorker Thread
Illustrates use of worker thread and Form.Invoke in a WinForm application.
synch
Shows how to serialize access to shared resources using Win32 threads and synchronizing constructs.
WorkerThread
One more demonstration of threading under .Net.
ProcessDemoWin32
Shows how to programmatically start a process using the Win32 API.

System Software

Process Demo
Illustrates programatic creation and managment of Windows processes.
High Resolution Timer
Reusable component that is 10,000 times more precise than the standard Windows clocks. Measures microsecond intervals.
sockets
Demonstates .Net socket clients and servers.
Message Framing
Demonstates framing messages in socket-based communication.
Message Framing with Threads and Queues, Message Framing structure Adds threads and queues - realistic detail - to previous example.

System Prototypes

Parser Prototype, Parser Structure, vsd
Core of code analyzer - has Tokenizer, TokenCollector, Parser, Rules, and Actions.
Peer-to-Peer Communication Prototype
Uses Client and Server parts to build a Peer-to-Peer messaging system.
Simplified Test Harness, Test Harness, Test Harness Structure, vsd
Test Harness loads assemblies, looks for ITest interface, creates test objects and executes them.

Special Purpose Packages

Concurrent Access to Files
Supports access to files in an environment with concurrent readers and writers.
Base64 Encoding
Converts binary data to and from character form. Othen used in XML messaging channels to send binary data.