Preface
.NET is not simply a new set of developer tools to be unleashed in late 2001 or early 2002. It is a multilevel strategy that will be realized over years, not months. Its impact to computing will be broad and long lasting. Let's take a look at where .NET came from.
.NET was made public at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Orlando, July 2000. We were both lucky enough to be in attendance. What a shocker. We watched with nodding heads and jaws agape as speaker after speaker illuminated solutions and described new paradigms in computing. We furiously took notes and couldn't wait to get our hands on the .NET bits. We installed Beta 1 in our hotel rooms. We were bitten. It was obvious Microsoft had done it right and had taken our ...
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