.NET - What's it all about? - Pantheon Systems, Inc.

Pantheon Systems, Inc.
The Object Technology Company

.NET Technology
What's it all about?

NET is Microsoft's latest technology offering - it provides a comprehensive framework for building scalable and robust solutions by leveraging a whole gamut of technologies such as the Common Language Runtime, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Web Services, Server-side Controls, GDI+, etc. The applications built within this framwork range from PDA based solutions to large web farms. By incorporating existing DBMS, Messaging and Transaction Processing products, the .NET environment facilites the creation of software that is transactional.

Although C# is the native programming language under .NET, developers can pick from a host of different languages including Visual Basic, J# (a variant of J++), J Script , C++ and even Cobol. With the help of the Common Language Runtime and Just-in-Time (JIT) compiling facilities, the .NET programmer experiences a seamless cross-language development environment.

The .NET Environment takes special care to provide support for building secure solutions that communicate through standard protocols such as XML/SOAP, TCP/IP, HTTP, etc.

While the .NET framework replaces the older COM component model, it does provide tools and techniques to easily take advantage of existing COM-based software.

.NET has multiple facets. It is simultaneously a library and an environment. At the same time its Microsoft's new component model as well as a virtual Operating System that current runs on most of the modern Windows Platforms.

This one-day overview course will enable you to understand the significance of .NET, its key features, and how best to adapt it for your needs. The course covers the various technologies brought together by .NET, including the components of the .NET environment, the new languages, and the provision for distributed development in .NET.