A Programmer's Guide to .NET

The new Microsoft platform, Microsoft.NET provides countless opportunities for different services and systems to interact, allowing programmers to develop powerful solutions for the internet. If you are a programmer or developer wanting to take full advantage of Microsoft.NET, this book, which provides essential information for the whole of the .NET platform, is for you. A Programmer's Guide to .NET will help you to gain an in-depth understanding of the .NET framework, its architecture, main components and supported technologies. Alexei Federov describes how the main components of the platform - Windows Forms, Web Forms, ADO.NET, web services and the Common Language Runtime - can work together, enabling you to create high-performance applications more easily and efficiently.A Programmer's Guide to .NET:Explains all of the significant parts of the Microsoft.NET framework - not just one technology Contains practical examples showing how you can use .NET to create a variety of applications - from console applications to XML web services Includes code examples written in VB.NET that can also be imported into other .NET languages Provides a comprehensive list of web resources in the appendix. The new Microsoft platform, Microsoft .NET provides countless opportunities for different services and systems to interact, allowing programmers to develop powerful solutions for the internet. If you are a programmer or developer wanting to take full advantage of Microsoft .NET, this book, which provides essential information for the whole of the .NET platform, is for you. A Programmer's Guide to .NET will help you to gain an in-depth understanding of the .NET framework, its architecture, main components and supported technologies. Alexei Federov describes how the main components of the platform -- Windows Forms, Web Forms, ADO.NET, web services and the Common Language Runtime -- can work together, enabling you to create high-performance applications more easily and efficiently.