Introduction
The .NET Framework, Visual Studio .NET, and associated technologies have achieved quite a lot even in their initial releases. The .NET platform provides many benefits over its predecessors from a developer productivity, scalability, manageability, and security perspective. However, what you have seen so far is still the beginning of an exciting feature. For instance, you haven't seen full-blown use of managed code within the entire Windows operating systems, you still have a number of servers and applications that don't completely utilize the managed environment, and so on. These and a whole lot of other changes are expected to be available in future releases of the Windows operating system, SQL Server, .NET Framework, and Visual ...
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