The Three-Part Structure of This Book

Microsoft .NET is a rich framework with hundreds of interesting nooks and crannies. For the computer author, this presents a unique danger: it’s all too easy to become distracted with a subset of intriguing features and write a whole book without delving into the real core issues. This book is designed in three logical parts to avoid this danger.

Part I: Key Technologies

The first part of this book introduces each .NET technology from a distributed programming point of view. To keep the book relentlessly in focus, each chapter opens with a section that explains the role this feature plays in a distributed system. As a side effect, many interesting aspects of .NET don’t appear in this book—everything from custom ...

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