.NET is Microsoft's vision of 'software as a service', a development environment in which you can build, create, and deploy your applications and the next generation of components, termed Web Services. All of Microsoft's major flagship products from Visual Studio to Windows and eventually Office are gradually being integrated into the vision and they will all offer services that will allow greater integration between products. .NET will allow developers to develop in whatever language they are comfortable with, via the introduction of a common language runtime, whilst at the same time provide 'building block services' to ease application development.
Introducing .NET is designed to tell you exactly what you need to know, to cut through the fog and to bring you a clear picture of what .NET is, and what you can expect to be able to do using it.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 .NET Overview
Chapter 2 Introduction to the CLR
Chapter 3 An Introduction to C#
Chapter 4 What's New in VB.NET
Chapter 5 Visual Studio .NET Features
Chapter 6 .NET Framework Overview
Chapter 7 ASP.NET
Chapter 8 ASP.NET Web Services
Chapter 9 Win Forms
Chapter 10 Building Components with MS.NET
Chapter 11 Data and ADO.NET
Chapter 12 .NET Enterprise Servers
Chapter 13 Case Study
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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| Burton Harvey | Burton Harvey is a software development consultant for Oakwood Systems Group, a Microsoft Partner company specializing in Internet solutions. An MCSD with fifteen years' experience using Microsoft development tools, Burt enjoys teaching others how to program and architecting software that elegantly fulfills clients' needs. In 1998, Burt founded the online journal of scientific research, Scientia. His areas of interest include compiler theory, UML, and the object-oriented paradigm. His Master's thesis, "The Outlaw Method for Solving Multimodal Functions with Parallel Genetic Algorithms", was presented at the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation. |
| Chris Ullman | Chris Ullman is a Computer Science graduate who worked for Wrox Press for six and a half years before branching out on his own. Now a father of a 7-month-old baby, Nye, he divides his time between being a human punchbag for Nye, trying to write extra chapters with a baby on his lap, and in rare moments of spare time, either playing keyboards in psychedelic band the Bee Men, tutoring his cats in the art of peaceful co-existence and not violently mugging each other on the stairs or hoping against hope that this is the year his favorite soccer team, Birmingham City, can manage to end their exile from the Premier League. |
