Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.276
EAN num: 9780130341785
ISBN number: 0130341789
Label: Pearson Education
Manufacturer: Pearson Education
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 272
Printing Date: November 15, 2001
Publishing house: Pearson Education
Sale Popularity Level: 2548930
Studio: Pearson Education
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Product Description:
Microsoft .NET Platform and Technologies is the complete guide to Microsoft's .NET initiative for both IT professionals and business decision-makers. Curt Simmons and Ash Rofail explore the goals and design of the .NET framework, the Microsoft technologies that enable it, what .NET means to the Internet, and what it can (and cannot) offer your business. If you need to make intelligent decisions about .NET, this is the to-the-point, up-to-the-minute briefing you've been searching for. The authors begin by exploring the foundational concepts that underlie the .NET platform. They present a high level overview of .NET's goals and processes, introducing the new Web services .NET is intended to support, and showing how businesses can use them for competitive advantage. They walk through the .NET framework, its protocols and programming interfaces, introduce the Visual Studio.NET programming environment, and explain the central role of XML in .NET and Microsoft's approach to Web services delivery. In Part Two, the authors review Microsoft's key .NET Enterprise servers, showing how they work and how they function within the .NET initiative.
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Rated by buyers -
In 254 pages prolific Microsoft technologies author (more than fifteen titles) Curt Simmons and newcomer Ash Rofail do a quick 254-page survey of .NET.
Part I, 1/3 of the book, gives a quick overview of the development environment including the common language runtime, framework classes, web services, ASP.net, ADO and XML. Part II has one brief chapter on the seven key MS server products that provide the horsepower behind the applications developed for .NET. An appendix covers the basic of Windows 2000 Server and Active Directory.
The book is meant as an overview for IS managers and software architects. Developers may want to read another book for their very first look; C# is not even mentioned. The book is a bit uneven with unexpected bursts of detail on, for example, XML code and later on SQL Server.
I found the book useful, after several months working on a .NET project, as a quick check on whether our contemplated architecture was taking advantage of all of the Microsoft technologies. I am not sure that I would have enjoyed the book if I had not been already fairly well read on .NET; but none of the other overviews that I have read covered all of the MS technology bases. Architecture mistakes are costly, so the $... is well spent.
Curt Simmons writes nicely so the book is a quick read.
Rated by buyers -
This book would be helpful if you need a big picture of Microsoft's product line under the .NET banner. It's brief and readable, not going into much detail under any section. In the very first part, the authors cover the .NET framework but give rather skimpy coverage to ADO.NET. The second section describes the .NET Enterprise servers. Much of the material can be gathered from other sources, although the authors tie it together with some basic descriptions of e-commerce strategies, web services, and how the servers are employed. However I think the retail price is a bit high for the value added.
If you want to get a broad overview of .NET and don't need descriptions of the .NET Enterprise servers, I would suggest "Introducing .NET" instead of this book, since it provides more detail. If you don't care about the $$ but want an easy read pulling together Microsoft's strategy and product line, this book might suffice.
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