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.NET Learning Guide
This guide introduces you to .NET, explains best practices and pitfalls to avoid and provides troubleshooting help and advice to pump up your .NET know-how quickly.
This SearchWebServices.com guide introduces you to .NET, explains best practices and pitfalls to avoid and provides troubleshooting help and advice. You'll find .NET articles, tutorials, tips, tools, white papers, expert advice and more to pump up your .NET know-how quickly. Drop me an e-mail to let me know what other learning guides you'd like to see on SearchWebServices. Catherine Ketcher, Editor.
Microsoft: "Microsoft® .NET is a set of software technologies for connecting information, people, systems, and devices. This new generation of technology is based on Web services -— small building-block applications that can connect to each other as well as to other, larger applications over the Internet."
.NET Quick Start
- Glossary Definition: .NET (SearchWebServices.com, powered by Whatis.com)
- Commentary:Microsoft and Web services (SearchWebServices.com)
- Column:The .NET world according to Microsoft (SearchWebServices.com)
- Advice:How should I go about learning .NET? (TechTarget Expert Answer Center)
- FAQ:.NET (Microsoft)
- Article: Dizzying speed of app development no big deal (SearchWebServices.com)
- Browse this collection of editor-selected .NET resources bookmarked from around the Web. (SearchWebServices.com)
.NET Expert Advice
- Advice: Stateful Web services in .NET
- Advice: Creating a hotel booking Web application
- Advice: Invoking a simple SoapExtension in VS.NET
- Advice: Uploading files with Web services
- Advice: How can I create the equivalent to a J2EE message-driven bean in .NET?
- Advice: Carrying namespaces over for reuse of code
.NET Migration Tips
- Tip: Upgrading your VB6 app to .NET (SearchWebServices.com)
- Tip: Think about migrating (SearchWebServices.com)
- Tip: Reasons to move to .NET (SearchWebServices.com)
- Advice: Will there be transition problems when moving from VB6 to VB.NET? (Expert Answer Center)
- Quick Tips: J2EE to .NET Migration (C# Corner)
- Article: Evaluate Your .NET Migration Risks (Windows Server System Magazine)
- Guide: JSP to ASP.NET Migration Guide (Microsoft)
- Advice: Migrating from ASP.NET 1.x to ASP.NET 2.0 (TheServerSide.NET)
.NET White Papers and Chapter Download
- White paper: .NET deployment guide (Microsoft)
- White paper: Application architecture for .NET (Microsoft)
- White paper: Web services provides building blocks for the Microsoft .NET Framework (Microsoft)
- White paper: Application architecture for .NET: Designing applications and services (Microsoft)
- Chapter download: Web Services: Theory and Practice -- Chapter 3, 'Microsoft's Web services' (Elsevier)
- Chapter download: NET & J2EE Interoperability -- Chapter 8, 'Interoperability solutions from third-party vendors' (McGraw-Hill)
.NET Code Samples and Tutorials
- Code sample: Visual Studio 2005 Code Samples (Microsoft)
- Code sample: Regional Director Code Samples (Microsoft)
- Code sample: A Simple Beep - Reminiscing about ZX Spectrum audio (The Code Project)
- Code sample: Database Logging in .NET (The Code Project)
- Tutorial: Welcome to the ASP.NET QuickStart Tutorial (GotDotNet)
- Tutorial: The Windows Forms QuickStart (GotDotNet)
- Tutorial: The .NET Compact Framework QuickStart (GotDotNet)
- Tutorial: Common Tasks QuickStart (GotDotNet)
- Tutorial: ASP.NET Tutorial (W3Schools)
- Tutorial: The Advanced C#/.NET Tutorial (Gopalan Suresh Raj)
- Collection: .NET Developer Tips (SearchWebServices.com)
- Tip: .NET identity and principal objects (SearchWebServices.com)
- Tip: Sending e-mail with .NET, the easy way, part two (SearchWebServices.com)
- Tip: Architecture in .NET (SearchWebServices.com)
.NET Tools and Downloads
- Download: Quake II .NET (Vertigo Software)
- Download: Windows Server 2003 Trial Software (Microsoft)
- Download: .NET Framework 1.1 (Microsoft)
- Download: .NET Framework 1.0 Service Pack 2 (Microsoft)
- Tool: Tools & Utilities (Microsoft)
- Tool: XSD Schema Validator (GotDotNet)
- Tool: About Dotfuscator (GotDotNet)
- Tool: .NET XML Command-Line Utilities (TheServerSide.NET)
- Tools: Developer PowerToys (GotDotNet)
- Article: Ten Must-Have Tools Every Developer Should Download Now (MSDN Magazine)
- Webcast: Tools and tips for J2EE and .NET interoperability (SearchWebServices.com)
.NET Online Resources
- Site: Microsoft .NET Information (Microsoft)
- Site: GotDotNet: The Microsoft .NET Framework Community (Microsoft)
- Site: TheServerSide.NET (TheServerSide.NET)
- Site: The Official Microsoft ASP.NET Site(Microsoft)
- Collection: .NET Best Web Links (SearchWebServices.com)
- Collection: .NET Webcasts (SearchWebServices.com)
