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This book is an introduction and a technical description of the Microsoft .NET technology. It covers the language C# as well as the major parts of the Microsoft .NET framework, namely the Common Language Runtime (CLR), the .NET class library, ADO.NET (ActiveX Data Objects), ASP.NET (Active Server Pages), and XML Web Services, as well as the most important tools under .NET. The book has a technical perspective and is written for programmers. It explains the general concepts of the .NET architecture and shows how to develop non-trivial applications in C#. In particular, it deals with the development of dynamic Web pages using ASP.NET, database applications using ADO.NET, as well as Web services using SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), WSDL (Web Service Description Language) and UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration). It is not intended as a complete reference manual since details can be found more easily using the online documentation of the .NET SDK. Buy Now!

• Microsoft’s Web Services Development Kit (WSDK) brings to the table infrastructure protocols with standards to solve Web services problems such as security and scalability
• This book will be the first available on this new development tool
• The author is a member of a select group that Microsoft has brought in to work directly with the development team for the WSDK
• Global XML Web Services Architecture is the new set of standards for XML Web services established by several companies including Microsoft and Sun Microsystems-WSDK makes working with these standards easier
• Companion Web site includes sample code and updates, including coverage of new tools as they are released