.NET and COM Interoperability Handbook, The

Microsoft .NET

Microsoft .NET is Microsoft's name for a technology initiative that is designed to make it simple to create and use a new class of Internet-enabled applications called XML Web services. XML Web services will transform the Internet from what it is now—isolated islands of information that present Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) pictures of data upon request--into a programmable platform, where information from XML Web services may be combined in value-adding ways before it arrives at a client device that is as likely to be a smart phone or a wirelessly connected Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) as it is to be a desktop Personal Computer (PC). With Microsoft.NET, Microsoft has—finally—truly embraced the Internet. Instead of “Windows ...