The Microsoft Platform Ahead

📖 The Scoop

Gain an expert, high-level understanding of Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0--including prerelease insights on the next version of Microsoft Visual Studio. What problems can .NET solve? What architectural approaches does it take to solve them? How do the major technologies--including Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0, Web Services Enhancements (WSE), and the .NET Compact Framework--fit the bigger picture? Author David Platt tackles these questions and more in his customary style--concise, witty, and ultimately pragmatic. He presents topics and examples from the top down, illuminating simpler concepts first then progressing to greater technical detail--meeting the needs of managers, architects, and code-hungry programmers all in a single, eminently readable guide.

Get the insights and examples you need to work with:

Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

• Parameterize classes with the new "generics" mechanism
  
  
• Recover unmanaged resources with enhanced garbage collector methods
• Use ClickOnce deployment for easy software installation and updates

Web Services Enhancements/WSE 2.0

• Facilitate user authentication and packet signing--without writing code
• Control WSE administratively

ASP.NET 2.0

• Use new Web Forms controls for a consistent, personalized user experience
• Take advantage of built-in authentication and authorization capabilities
• Run and debug projects on the desktop--without Internet Information Services (IIS)

.NET Compact Framework

• Exploit streamlined classes for fast, lightweight development and fewer bugs
• Write resource-efficient code for the Pocket PC and other smart devices
• Deliver maps and directions from a Smartphone

Visual Studio 2005

• Download code samples in Microsoft Visual Basic and C#

Includes two bonus chapters.

See additional technology previews in the Appendix, covering:

• The next generation of the Microsoft Windows operating system, code name "Longhorn", featuring the new WinFS storage system
• The next version of Microsoft SQL Server, code name "Yukon"

Genre: Computers / Networking / General (fancy, right?)