Building Portals, Intranets, and Corporate Web Sites Using Microsoft Servers
by James J. Townsend, Dmitri Riz, Deon Schaffer
The Fundamentals of .NET
Despite heroic communication efforts undertaken by Microsoft, there still is a lot of confusion as to what exactly .NET is. .NET is actually three different but interrelated things:
.NET is a broad vision of the future of computing where services will be developed and then sold or leased to consumers by software providers. In this context, the core of the .NET brand is web services.
.NET is a set of development tools, primarily the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET. For developers, this is the central meaning of .NET.
.NET is a group of products: Visual Studio, Exchange, BizTalk, Commerce Server, SQL Server, and others. For a while, Microsoft was extending the .NET brand to promote these server products. Indeed, the ...
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