Microsoft .NET Platform and Technologies - Softcover

Simmons, Curt; Rofail, Ash

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130341789 ISBN 13: 9780130341785

Publisher: Pearson Education, 2001

Synopsis

Explains Microsoft's .NET solution to the integration of the diverse programming languages and protocols used in web application development and web services. Written for business managers and IT professionals, the book overviews the goals and processes of the .NET framework, how .NET can potentially affect business, and the nine types of Microsoft .NET enterprise servers available. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About this title

About the Author

CURT SIMMONS is an author and technical trainer specializing in Microsoft operating systems, BackOffice products and Internet technologies. A Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) and Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) based in Dallas, TX, his books include Configuring Windows 2000 Server (Prentice Hall PTR).

ASH ROFAIL is Chief Technology Officer of User Technology Associates (UTA, Inc.) a consulting firm in Northern Virginia. The author of several books and articles on Microsoft-based Technologies and XML, Rofail is a frequent conference speaker who also teaches at universities throughout the United States.

From the Back Cover

The complete .NET briefing for every IT professional and business decision-maker.

• Evaluating .NET: technologies and business opportunities
• .NET Web Services, e-business, and application integration support
• .NET tools and standards: Visual Studio.NET, ASP.NET, XML, and SOAP
• .NET Enterprise Servers: BizTalk, SharePoint, Mobile Information Server, and more

Now, there's an expert, straight-to-the-point introduction to Microsoft's .NET for IT professionals and business decision-makers. Microsoft .NET Platform and Technologies explores the design and goals of the .NET framework, the Microsoft technologies that enable it, what .NET means to the Internet, and what it means to your business. Simmons and Rofail 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 and 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. The authors also review Microsoft's key .NET Enterprise servers, showing how they work and how they function within the .NET initiative.

• What .NET means to your e-business initiatives
• How .NET Web services may deliver competitive advantage-and how to build them
• .NET standards-including detailed coverage of .NET's XML and SOAP support
• .NET tools: introducing the Visual Studio.NET programming environment
• .NET Enterprise Servers: BizTalk, SharePoint, Commerce Server, Exchange Server, SQL Server, Mobile Information Server, and more

Highly readable and thoroughly objective, Microsoft .NET Platform and Technologies gives you .NET's essence without its hype. If you need to make intelligent decisions about .NET, this is the book you need by your side.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson Education
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0130341789
• ISBN 13: 9780130341785
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272