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	Migrating to .NET: A Pragmatic Path to Visual Basic .NET, Visual C++ .NET, and ASP.NET By Dhananjay  Katre, Prashant  Halari, Narayana  Rao  Surapaneni, Manu  Gupta, Meghana  Deshpande
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We strongly believe that a title on migration to Microsoft .NET will benefit a large number of developers and IT strategists. Microsoft .NET has introduced a totally new programming model for developers.

Microsoft .NET is built on the basis of the Internet as an operating system. Microsoft has studied and discovered the difficulties of programming in traditional languages such as Visual Basic and Visual C++ and the difficulties of COM programming. Microsoft .NET technology offers scalability, performance improvements, ease of application deployment, security and interoperability across various programming languages. Issues such as registration of COM components and reference counting are not present in Microsoft .NET applications.

This book covers the basic concepts of migration to .NET technologies. It details various programming languages (such as VB.NET, Managed VC++ and ASP.NET) and key differences, as well as advantages, over their predecessors. The book details the steps involved in migration. It has a rich set of examples and case studies to cover important aspects of migration like Pre-migration and Post-migration. The last section of the book covers issues related to component migration and interoperability.

The book has been divided into the following sections:

• Chapter 1 ”.NET Framework concepts and migration methodology in general

• Chapters 2 to 4 ”topics related to migration to Visual Basic .NET

• Chapters 5 to 7 ”topics related to ASP to ASP.NET migration

• Chapters 8 and 9 ”topics related to Visual C++ .NET migration

• Chapters 10 and 11 ”topics like COM interoperability and exposing COM components as Web services

• Chapters 12 to 14 ”case study for illustrating the migration concepts

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