What is .Net Framework?
The .NET framework (DotNet) is a new Microsoft initiative directed to
the modification of computer world. More specifically, it is a large
set of development tools, servers, software, and services. Its main
advantages for the user are creation of an integrated information space
connecting him or her with computers and programs, as well as
connection software applications together. For developers, the value of
DotNet lies in interoperability and the seamless connectivity of
multiple systems and sources of data. This empowers them to quickly and
easily create required products.
Where you can implement?
The IT department manager of every company has a dream -- an enterprise
that performs all business transactions with partners exceptionally
over the Internet, with no headaches about the business processes. For
this to happen, the processes must be well designed, stable, and easily
customized and controlled both from the local network and from any
computer in the Internet. All company's employees should have general
access to work information, Email and personal documents no matter if
they use mobile phone, Pocket PC, Notebook or high-end workstation.
Basics of Microsoft .Net
Nowadays, in an age of rapid development of E-commerce, the existing
tools for creating digital marketplaces do not always handle the
business needs. By developing the new means for this field a major
breakthrough belongs to XML Web services.
For a long period of time these were used by program engineering
services provided by external software. When it became clear that it is
easier to once create a universal information storage facility and to
integrate it into different programs than invent each time a new one,
there appeared first Database Management Systems. Next step was the
creation of messaging and collaboration systems, e.g. Lotus Notes and
Exchange, which simultaneously served as development platforms. Then
came into use; the products providing messages delivery (Message
Oriented Middleware); such as IBM MQSeries and MSMQ. They allowed
organizing message exchange in distributed system with manifold (and
often unreliable) communication links. Their difference from mail
servers lay in the fact that they were oriented on information exchange
not between people but various parts of program systems. Finally, one
of the last tendencies became Application Servers and Enterprise
Application Integration Servers. First ones allow to create scalable
solutions of simple software components giving them a ready means of
supporting distributed transactions,
controlling access to total
resources (particularly, connection with database) etc. Enterprise
Application Integration Server acts as glue, being the intermediate
among existing program systems and helping them to process data and
exchange references. Web services enhance and extend the value of these
existing technologies. They allow an object's methods to be called over
the Internet via HTTP. As a result, programs written in any language,
and running on any operating system, can access .NET applications
implemented as web services. By introducing common, well-known
standards of interaction between software, Web service technology
allows for the creation of inter-corporate information systems without
protracted coordination of proprietary interfaces. In addition, the use
of HTTP as the transport mechanism allows remote calls to these
services to pass through corporate firewalls without compromising
security. Web services existed before .NET was introduced, but the .NET
framework makes creation of web services far easier than they otherwise
would be.
Offers wide range of Integrated Solution
Breaking down the distinctions between the Internet, standalone
applications, and computing devices of every kind, Web services provide
businesses with the opportunity to collaborate and to offer an
unprecedented range of integrated and customized solutions - solutions
that enable their customers to act on information any time, any place
and on any device.
How it is beneficial to IT professionals?
DotNet (.Net) technology offers other far-reaching benefits for IT
professionals. It enables programmers to develop powerful information
systems using all capabilities of modern computers and networks without
implementing helper functions implementation -- almost all of these
functions are subsumed into the platform). It allows concentrating only
on the business logic of the product. Thus developers will be able to
quickly create high-quality (and easy!) programs with a multitude of
Internet integrated capabilities while reducing costs.
