Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 004.3682
EAN num: 9781861004895
ISBN number: 1861004893
Label: Wrox Press
Manufacturer: Wrox Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 500
Printing Date: 2001-01
Publishing house: Wrox Press
Sale Popularity Level: 1484451
Studio: Wrox Press
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Product Description:
.NET is Microsoft's vision of 'software as a service', a development environment in which you can build, create, and deploy your applications and the subsequent generation of components, termed Web Services. All of Microsoft's major flagship products from Visual Studio to Windows and eventually Office are gradually being integrated into the vision and they will all offer services that will allow greater integration between products. .NET will allow developers to develop in whatever language they are comfortable with, via the introduction of a common language runtime, whilst at the same time provide 'building block services' to ease application development.
Introducing .NET is designed to tell you exactly what you need to know, to cut through the fog and to bring you a clear picture of what .NET is, and what you can expect to be able to do using it.
Amazon.com Review:
Introducing .NET provides a guide to the emerging set of technologies and standards that will be a part of the Microsoft .NET platform. Ideal for any programmer (or IT manager) who works with Windows, this title gives a worthwhile preview of a compelling set of technologies and of new ways to program for the Internet.
Apart from browsing the current .NET beta and documentation from Microsoft, it's somewhat difficult to find a way to understand all of the various aspects of .NET. The authors of this book have done the legwork for you and packaged their discoveries in a concise volume that examines numerous APIs and tools that developers will be using in the subsequent year or so.
After a quick overview of .NET, the book looks at the Common Language Runtime (CLR), which allows different languages (like VB and C#) to interoperate on .NET. This focus is ideal for programmers who want to understand the future of programming. The book handily summarizes what the new C# language will offer, explaining in detail how Visual Basic 7 (now Visual Basic.NET) will differ from early versions of the language. In case you haven't seen the beta of the new Microsoft Visual Studio.NET, you get a tour of its features and interface. Other sections delve into the actual .NET classes you'll be using for development. (These APIs can be accessed from any programming language.) Material on the new Windows Forms and Web Forms shows the future of building user interfaces on the Windows platform. Other sections look at the new ASP.NET (for creating dynamic Web pages) and ADO.NET (for database programming).
Another compelling reason to read this book is its discusion of Web services, a potentially winning concept for a new generation of software. Using the Simple Object Acess Protocol (SOAP), an XML standard for describing services, .NET programmers can call remote Web services almost as easily as local functions. The authors provide a remarkably simple example (which packages weather information on a custom Web page). Clearly, this is a core technology on .NET, and the book does a good job of explaining its potential.
Introducing .NET provides the blueprint for understanding what's to be included in the new .NET. Despite an understandable amount of 'cheerleading' for Microsoft's new platform, this is good nuts-and-bolts information that's timely and just what developers need to understand the future of computing on Windows. --Richard Dragan
Topics covered: - Overview of the Microsoft .NET platform
- .NET design goals and features
- The Common Language Runtime (CLR) (common types and metadata)
- Tutorial for C# (data types and control flow, class design, and events)
- Visual Basic.NET (new features, summary of language changes, migrating old VB code to version 7)
- Tour of the Visual Studio.NET Beta 1 IDE
- Basic classes in the .NET class framework (including collection classes)
- ASP.NET (ASP vs. ASP.NET comparison, new features, and advantages)
- Web services and the Simple Object Acess Protocol (SOAP)
- Sample Web service for weather information
- Windows Forms (including GDI)
- Distributing .NET components (assemblies, business objects, and unmanaged code)
- ADO.NET and database programming
- Survey of Microsoft enterprise server products
- Case study for a Web-enabled parts inventory system in .NET
- Reference for .NET packages
- Using traditional COM components within .NET
User popularity level:
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This book has at least 10 authors and is fun to read for the very first few chapters. Then I really got annoyed to read the same things over and over again and at the same time I missed some more in depth explanations. A lot is done with the framework itself. This is probably due to the very early delivery date of the book. Though I really enjoyed the C# example (game of life) I think you be better served with Hollis, Lhotka "VB.Net Programming". Also there seem to be quite a few other books out by now.
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This is a good introduction to .net, as the cover says, but me thinks it was just a ploy to make money. Not very useful at all, but if you are a beginner to .NET, then you might want to browse through it to get a general feel for the framework.
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I have purchased several Dot Net books as of late. I thought the book was very thorough as an overview. This book was not intended to be a programmers guide to any single language in the Dot Net suite. But if you want a book to give you some insight as to what Dot Net is all about, this is a great place to start. I also purchased Wrox "Programming C# with the public Beta", although this book is being replaced with Professional C#, I still learned much from this title as well.
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This book is exactly what it says it is. It is an Intorduction to the .NET. It does not go in depth, however it shines some light on the .NET in general. If you are a COM/DCOM developer and you would like to find out what .NET is all about, this book is definately for you. If you already know what .NET is about, then look for a more in depth per each subject books. I rate it with 5 stars since it delivers what it promises and definately worth the money. Great job!
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Not having read much online information about .NET I was pretty happy with this book. There's a chapter on each of the major .NET features including the Common Language Runtime, C#, VB.NET, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, Winforms etc. It definitely removed a lot of the mystery of .NET for me. Previously all of the info I had read on .NET was vague generalities but this book really gets down to the actual details.
I would only recommend this book to people who are experienced with C++, VB and COM. The book was more technical than I expected and there is a good deal of code. One problem was the editing, there were several mistakes and the book had a bit of a rushed feel to it. Having 10 co-authors makes the style a little uneven and there are a few items that are mentioned by more than one author.
This is a decent technical overview of .NET. If that's what you're looking for I don't think you'll be disappointed.
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