Srinivasan Manickam

Srinivasan Manickam

Srinivasan Manickam is an architect, developer and author in the areas of Windows and Unix environment, with over 12 years of IT experience. His programming experience runs from Clipper to C# and from CP/M to Windows CE.
He co-reviewed Programming PERL in the .NET Environment from Prentice-Hall.

Articles Authored

  • PerlINET Part 2

    Last updated: Monday, December 8, 2025

    Published in: CODE Magazine: 2002 - November/December

    In this follow-up to their earlier introduction of PerlNET, Yevgeny Menaker and Srinivasan Manickam demonstrate how to build advanced .NET applications in Perl, focusing on database integration via ADO.NET in both connected and disconnected modes, and extending to ASP.NET development with PerlASPX. They illustrate practical techniques for data access, Web Forms, server controls, event handling, and code-behind separation, as well as creating and consuming ASP.NET Web Services in PerlNET. The article emphasizes Perl’s versatility within the .NET framework, showing how it can seamlessly handle data, web applications, and service-oriented architectures.

  • PerlNET: An Introduction

    Last updated: Friday, December 5, 2025

    Published in: CODE Magazine: 2002 - September/October

    In this article, Srinivasan Manickam introduces PerlNET, a technology that integrates the open-source Perl language with Microsoft's .NET framework, enabling Perl to function as a .NET language. Manickam highlights Perl’s key features such as scalars, arrays, hashes, and regular expressions, then explains how PerlNET facilitates creating, consuming, and wrapping .NET components using Perl. The article also demonstrates building Windows GUI applications with PerlNET and discusses the distinctions between Pure Perl, .NET, and Mixed type components, emphasizing PerlNET’s role in bridging Perl’s dynamic nature with .NET’s strong typing for versatile application development.