Summary

Weve now gone through an overview of the .NET Framework and the CLR. Weve talked about the motivating factors behind these technologies and the key benefits that they provide. Finally, weve discussed the elements contained within the .NET Framework that are most applicable to network development scenarios. Hopefully, by now youll agree that you can build just about any type of network application using the .NET Framework. In the chapters ahead, well be going through the specifics of exactly how to build the best distributed applications using each of the key technologies that make up network programming for the .NET Framework.