Appropriate for all courses in Microsoft .NET programming for students who have programming experience.

This hands-on, example-rich guide to .NET has two goals: to help students gain an in-depth understanding of .NET's architecture, and to help them understand .NET's services to start building enterprise-class applications as rapidly as possible. Pradeep Tapadiya begins by establishing a solid foundation for enterprise .NET programming. He reviews Microsoft's short and long-term goals for .NET, illuminates .NET's programming model and infrastructure, and walks through the entire process of building a .NET application, from development through deployment and maintenance. Next, he presents in-depth coverage of .NET's support for distributed computing and Web services; and its approach to interoperability with COM and non-COM-based legacy applications. Detailed chapters address concurrency and multithreading; new .NET server and client security issues; transaction processing; .NET mechanisms for optimizing scalability; and the effective use of reflection and assemblies. An accompanying ftp site contains all of the book's extensive source code.

• Knowledge for building enterprise-class .NET applications—Offers deep insight into the .NET architecture, Common Language Runtime, and Framework Class Library, plus a thorough working knowledge of how to put .NET's services to work.

  • Gives students all the information and insight they need to begin building enterprise-class .NET applications as rapidly as possible.

• Full project lifecycle coverage—Covers development, packaging, deployment, and maintenance from the perspective of the working developer.

  • Helps students play any role on a .NET development team, while also understanding the big picture.

• Extensive C# programming examples in the book and ftp site—Contains thoroughly-annotated example code that illuminates each of .NET features covered in this book.

  • Enables students to learn from real code—the most effective way for most students to learn programming.

• .NET internals and services—Illuminates the internals of the .NET Framework and demonstrates how to take full advantage of its services.

  • Helps students leverage the full power of the .NET platform.

• Detailed coverage of interoperability with legacy Windows applications—Presents in-depth coverage of interoperability with both native DLLs and COM applications.

  • Helps students integrate new .NET software into existing IT environments.

• Advanced .NET distributed computing techniques—Offers start-to-finish guidance on developing object-remoting applications for intranets, and Web services for the Internet.

  • Helps students build the types of applications that are increasingly demanded by the marketplace.

• Techniques for securing .NET applications—Explains how to develop secure applications using role-based security, and then enforce security for third-party applications using code access permissions.

  • Gives students practical tools for securing .NET distributed applications against malicious code or unauthorized intrusions.

• Advanced techniques for writing thread-safe code—Demonstrates how to develop thread-safe code using the .NET synchronization infrastructure, and offers new insight into asynchronous programming.

  • Helps students build more responsive applications.

• Detailed coverage of transactions—Illuminates the complex issues traditionally involved in supporting transactions and shows how the .NET platform simplifies this.

  • Gives students practical solutions for maintaining the integrity of data across multiple applications and machines in distributed computing environments.

• Comprehensive coverage of scalability—Reviews all .NET mechanisms for improving scalability in enterprise applications.

  • Helps students build applications that can grow smoothly to meet increasing demands.

• Reflection and its applications—Introduces reflection, one of .NET's most powerful features—and shows developers how to take full advantage of it.

  • Gives students an in-depth understanding of one of .NET's most sophisticated tools for building powerful, flexible applications.

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PRADEEP TAPADIYA is a lead software architect at the OpenView R&D Division of Hewlett-Packard in Roseville, CA, and has been working with Microsoft enterprise development technologies since 1996. He holds a doctoral degree in computer science from Texas A&M University. Tapadiya is also the author of COM+ Programming: A Practical Guide Using Visual C++ and ATL (Prentice Hall PTR).

Enterprise-class .NET programming in C#—from a developer's perspective.

• Internals of the .NET Framework—learn to get the most from its services
• Build professional applications using C#—quickly and efficiently
• Hands-on approach covering the Base Class Library, Remoting, ASP .NET Web Services, concurrency, security, enterprise services, dealing with legacy code, and much more

.NET developers need more than buzzwords to get the job done. To tackle enterprise-class projects, they need both a real understanding of the .NET architecture and a working knowledge of how to put its services to work. In .NET Programming: A Practical Guide Using C#, .NET authority Pradeep Tapadiya takes a straightforward, hands-on approach to explain everything you need to know from development to deployment and maintenance for this platform—all from a developer's perspective. Using C# as the primary language, and with plenty of code examples throughout, this book is an excellent way to learn:

• The .NET infrastructure—packaging and deployment, the common language runtime and its services, and the .NET Framework class libraries
• Distributed computing—develop object-remoting applications for intranets and Web services for the Internet
• How to develop thread-safe code using the .NET synchronization infrastructure and learn asynchronous programming
• Interoperability with native DLLs and COM applications
• How to develop secure applications using role-based security and enforce security for third-party applications using code access permissions
• Enterprise services—develop scalable applications, support transactions, and more.

Appropriate for experienced developers, .NET Programming will help you get the most from the .NET architecture—today.

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