Chapter 11. Converting Legacy Applications to Web Services

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Right now, I'm looking at the title of this chapter and thinking, “Wow, I can't believe that I'm calling pre-.NET applications legacy!” In the world of application development on Windows, any application written using Visual Studio 6.0 or earlier will be viewed as a legacy application within the next year or two. There already exists a feeling that we are in the middle of a large-scale paradigm shift as the industry starts to migrate over to .NET. The broad adoption of garbage collection technologies that started with Java ...

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