Microsoft.NET

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Microsoft.NET What Does It Mean To You?
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.NET Experiences

• PDC 2000 Build. July, 2000.
• Visual Studio 1.0 Beta 1. November, 2000.
• Book began in January, 2001.
• Visual Studio 1.0 Beta 2. June, 2001.
• First Production ASP.NET App in July, 2001.
• Production Windows Service in November, 2001.
  Runs today.
• 4 Production Applications by shipment.
• Multiple running applications.

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What is .NET?

• Floor Wax? Desert Topping? Toothpaste?
• Label has been removed from most MS's products.
  Office, Windows, other products.
• Framework Development Tools.
• Common Language Runtime.
• Base Class Libraries.
• Development Tools.
• Re-architecting the Windows API.

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Design Goals of .NET

• Increase Productivity of Developers.
• Decrease number of lines of code.
• Ease Integration between Applications.
• Improve Web Application development experience.
• Decrease need for different types of development
  teams.
• Improve deployment experience.
• Improve the lifecycle experience.

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Language does not matter

• Multiple languages are supported in the box (VB,
  C, C, and Jscript).
• Third-party language support.
• All languages have access to the same set of base
  libraries within the Framework.
• How Source -gt MSIL -gt Executable Code.

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Types of Applications

• Web Based Applications. (ASP.NET)
• XML Web Services.
• Mobile Applications. (Mobile ASP.NET)
• Windows GUI Applications.
• Windows Services.
• Other..........

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Classical GUI Applications

• Similar to existing development methodologies.
• New features to take advantage of.
• Requires the .NET Framework at the Client PC.

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Web Based Applications aka ASP.NET

• Similar to GUI / IDE development.
• - GUI Widgets.
• - Events.
• Less code than Classic ASP.
• Improved Performance over Classic ASP.
• Framework only required on web server.

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Mobile Web Applicationsaka Mobile ASP.NET

• GUI Widgets independent of the mobile browser.
• PocketPC.
• WAP.
• Extendable to other mobile devices.
• Use the same logic.
• Use the same development tools.
• Framework only required on Web Servers.

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New Applications Opportunities

• XML Web Services for Integration.
• Windows Services.
• Threads.
• Database access.

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.NET Pieces-n-Parts

• Redistributable. No cost.
• SDK. Command line compilers (vbc, csc, jsc). No
  cost.
• WebMatrix. No cost ASP.NET Development tool.
• SharpDeveloper. No cost, open source IDE.
• Visual Studio IDE. Various levels.

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Platform Support

• Windows 98, WindowsNT4 for Winforms
  Applications.
• Windows2k For Serving Web Applications.
• PocketPC for Mobile Applications
• (aka Compact Framework).
• Mobile Web Browser for Mobile Web Applications.

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.NET Releases

• .NET 1.0. Winter, 2002.
• .NET 1.1. aka Everrett. April, 2003.
• .NET 2.0. aka Whidbey. Late 2004.
• Yukon. aka Sql Server. Late 2004.
• Longhorn. aka Windows client. 2005.

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Incorrect Informationin the Martkeplace

• Requires Windows 2003 Server.
• Requires Sql Server. .NET works with Oracle,
  DB/2, MySql, ODBC, and OleDb Databases.
• XML Web Services.
• MS Lock-In. XML is text that may be manipulated.
• Intra-application communication.

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What is .NET?

• Microsoft's Development Strategy.
• Web.
• Mobile.
• Integration through Web Services.
• Why.
• Web Development.
• Mobile Development.
• Deployment costs.
• Lifecycle costs.

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Questions????

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• 865-693-3004.
• wallym_at_scalabledevelopment.com

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