.NET Products and Services
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New control families including enhanced Intrinsics, Rich controls, List controls,
DataGrid control, Repeater control, Data list control, and validation controls.
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New support for developing Web Services--application logic programmatically
accessible via the Internet that can be integrated into .NET applications using the
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP).
Languages
The CLR allows objects created in one language be treated as equal citizens by code
written in a completely different language. To make this possible, Microsoft has
defined a Common Language Specification (CLS) that details for compiler vendors
the minimum set of features that their compilers must support if they are to target
the runtime.
Any language that conforms to the CLS can run on the CLR. In the .NET framework,
Microsoft provides Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual C#, and JScript support.
.NET Products
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET represents the best development environment for the
.NET platform.
Integrations is the key in the new VS.NET IDE, thus a single IDE can be used to
program in a variety of managed languages from VB.NET to Visual C++ with
Managed extensions. Advance features in VS.NET truly propel development in to the
highest gear.
.NET Services:
XML Web Services
XML is turning the way we build and use software inside out. The Web revolutionized
how users talk to applications. XML is revolutionizing how applications talk to other
applications--or more broadly, how computers talk to other computers--by providing
a universal data format that lets data be easily adapted or transformed:
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XML Web services allow applications to share data.
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XML Web services are discrete units of code; each handles a limited set of tasks.
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They are based on XML, the universal language of Internet data exchange, and
can be called across platforms and operating systems, regardless of
programming language.
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.NET is a set of Microsoft software technologies for connecting your world of
information, people, systems, and devices through the use of XML Web services.
For more details refer:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/nhp/default.asp?contentid=28000442
.NET Runtime:
Let's now discuss about the .NET Runtime.
