This book provides a clear and simple overview of Microsoft's .NET technologies. It is aimed at second and third year undergraduate and postgraduate students on Computing or Computer Science courses who are required to look at the design goals for a modern operating system (Windows NT, 2000/2003, or XP).
This includes the concepts of componentware and the impact of such technology on the design and implementation of solutions - spanning from simple desktop applications to fully distributed systems.
1. An overview of .NET
2. The common language runtime
3. The framework class library and other support functionality
4. Supported programming languages
5. Windows forms
6. .NET components
7. Interoperability issues
8. The role of XML
9. ADO.NET
10. Networking, web forms and ASP.NET
11. Web services
12. The case study