Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Unleashed

The Many Faces of a .NET Application

.NET has become the standard when building applications targeting the Microsoft Windows client or server products. It took only a few years, but it is now fair to say that .NET is everywhere; Windows programming and .NET programming are now synonymous. Many of the user applications we interact with have some if not all of their code base in .NET. This includes rich clients built on Windows, solutions built on Office (including parts of Office itself), smart clients that work across the Web, Web applications that run in a browser and execute on a Windows server, and mobile applications that run on devices such as phones. The good news is that the .NET developer is in high demand, and you can leverage your skills ...