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What problems can Microsoft .NET solve? What architectural approaches does it take to solve them? How do you start using .NET ,and how do you profit from it? Get the answers to these questions and more in the third edition of this popular, high-level .NET review—now updated for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 and .NET Framework version 1.1. Its organization makes it easy to decide how deep technically you want to go. The author expertly covers a single topic from the top down in each chapter, introducing simpler concepts first them progressing to greater technical detail. He makes his points with a minimum of jargon, a maximum of wit, a multitude of diagrams, and a wealth of meaningful analogies and clear explanations. By the end of this illuminating walk through, you’ll know enough about .NET to plan for the future of software as a Web service.

Topics covered include:

• What the heck is .NET anyway?
• .NET Framework objects
• Microsoft ASP.NET and Web Forms
• XML Web services
• Microsoft ADO.NET
• Handling XML
• Events and delegates
• Threads
• Windows Forms
• Data access
• Bonus chapters on the Web about Windows Forms controls and Web Forms controls

New chapters in this edition:

• .NET Remoting
• The Reflection namespace

About the Author

David S. Platt runs Rolling thunder Computing, an education and consulting practice. He is the author of six previous books, including the first and second editions of this book and Understanding COM+, and is a frequent contributor to MSCN, the Microsoft Developer Network.