What is Microsoft .NET?

Microsoft .Net is a prefabricated infrastructure for solving common problems in Internet Applications.  Microsoft .NET is an add-on run-time environment that runs on the Windows 2000 operating system.  Later versions of the software will be made available for other operating system architecture, but early versions of the platform are to be used on Windows 2000.  Opportunities abound for Microsoft .NET.  Some of the topics this tutorial will include are:

• .NET Framework allows users to construct robust code quickly and manage the code and hopefully deployt the program to the client or service.

• Microsoft .NET provides a new way of deploying a web site using ASP.NET which ties web request with data.  ASP.NET is much like programming Visual Basic form.

• .NET allows a new way for Internet servers to expose functions to any client.  The generic web browser searching for data may be the past with the use of .NET Web Service.

• .NET allows programmers to also develop Windows Forms.   .NET can be thought of as Visual Basic on steroids.  .NET does also allow users to utilize other code in developing software for the Windows environment.  Some tutorials we found interesting and useful can be viewed from the links.

• .NET also allows the user to access databases and gather information from these databases.  ADO.NET is the basis for this type of programming and allows users to connect with database operations.