| These books cover issues of fundamental technologies important to .NET's vision of strong interoperability across diverse platforms. They also address issues of migrating to .NET. Migrating to .NET: A Pragmatic Path to VB.NET, Visual C++ .NET, and ASP.NET This book gives an introduction to the Microsoft .NET platform and covers the basic concepts of migration. It contains a detailed look on various programming languages and technologies (VB.NET, Visual C++ .NET and ASP.NET) and key differences as well as advantages over their predecessors. The book has detailed steps involved in migration, and it also 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 has coverage of issues related to component migration and interoperability. The .NET and COM Interoperability Handbook This book explains the .NET Framework from the perspective of a COM/COM+ programmer. It compares COM/COM+ and .NET. It also shows readers how to use their existing COM/COM+ components from .NET and how to call .NET components from their Win32/COM applications. This is not the kind of cursory coverage of COM interoperability that is found in most .NET Framework books. We delve deep into the subject, covering items such as the effect of the COM Apartment threading model, ActiveX controls, late binding and the impedance mismatch between reference counting in COM and garbage collection in .NET. The book also covers how to use the COM+ Services from a .NET application. XML: Programming Using .NET and Java This book is a concise and hands-on exploration of XML application for process interoperability using .NET and Java. With the advent of XML and Web services, the ubiquitous HTTP/HTML communication model has been greatly expanded. This book explores the process communication models using XML via HTTP, database connection, and SOAP/Web services. Along the way various powerful tools and programming techniques advanced by the .NET and Java runtime engines are discussed in detail. Sample code galore! This book offers a unique vista into the power of XML to bring the dream of easy process interoperability to reality.  | 
