Summary

This chapter has given you an executive overview of all the names in the .NET namespace. It has also explained how Microsoft's older technologies like COM, COM+, and ActiveX controls still fit into the picture. I concluded by comparing and contrasting the .NET Framework with the Java programming language. The next chapter compares COM and the .NET Framework as software component development technologies.

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