ISBN: 9781861004895
Publisher ? : ? Apress; 1st edition (January 1, 2001)
Language ? : ? English
Mass Market Paperback ? : ? 500 pages

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 Access 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

This book is for experienced developers at the leading edge, or for businesses that have to already be developing solutions on the latest platform as soon as it comes out. The different sections of .NET are in various stages of completion, and all are in beta programs and therefore a high degree of technical competence and awareness of technologies such a COM, COM+, ASP, and VB is required on the part of the reader. Some experience of C, C++ or Java would be advantageous to anyone new to C#, although it's not essential.