Category Archives: Web dev

Simple interview questions on Microsoft .NET

What is the base class of .NET?
Explain assemblies.
Name some of the languages .NET support?
ADO.NET features? Benefits? Drawbacks?

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ASP.NET interview questions and answers

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 [...]

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Perl interview questions and answers

What arguments do you frequently use for the Perl interpreter and what do they mean?
What does the command ‘use strict’ do and why should you use it?
What do the symbols $ @ and % mean when prefixing a variable?
What elements of the Perl language could you use to structure your code to allow for maximum [...]

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Basic .NET and ASP.NET interview questions

Submitter said questions were asked in a US company hiring a Web developer.

Explain the .NET architecture.
How many languages .NET is supporting now? - When .NET was introduced it came with several languages. VB.NET, C#, COBOL and Perl, etc. The site DotNetLanguages.Net says 44 languages are supported.
How is .NET able to support multiple languages? - a [...]

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PHP interview questions, Part 2

How can we repair a MySQL table?
What are the advantages of stored procedures, triggers, indexes?
What is the maximum length of a table name, database name, and fieldname in MySQL?
How many values can the SET function of MySQL take?
What are the other commands to know the structure of table using MySQL commands except explain command?

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PHP interview questions, Part 1

Feel free to post the answers and discuss the questions in the comments. Mizanur Rahman also posted some detailed answers on his blog.

What are the differences between Get and post methods in form submitting, give the case where we can use get and we can use post methods?
Who is the father of PHP and explain [...]

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ASP.NET questions, part 2

ASP.NET interview questions, part 1

Whats an assembly? Assemblies are the building blocks of .NET Framework applications; they form the fundamental unit of deployment, version control, reuse, activation scoping, and security permissions. An assembly is a collection of types and resources that are built to work together and form a logical unit of functionality. An assembly [...]

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ASP.NET questions, part 1

Explain the differences between Server-side and Client-side code? Server side scripting means that all the script will be executed by the server and interpreted as needed. ASP doesn’t have some of the functionality like sockets, uploading, etc. For these you have to make a custom components usually in VB or VC++. Client side scripting means [...]

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