Listed below are quality resources available for '.NET'. Object-Oriented Programming for VBScripters If you want to make the move to .NET and feel intimidated by object-oriented programming (OOP), this article is designed to ease any level VBScripter (ASP) into .NET by clarifying some OOP concepts. ASP.NET - 4GuysFromRolla.com Introduction to ASP.NET. This site features an overview of ASP.NET in the form of many links to articles and examples including sample code. ASP.NET QuickStart Tutorial The ASP.NET QuickStart is a series of ASP.NET samples and supporting commentary designed to quickly acquaint developers with the syntax, architecture, and power of the ASP.NET Web programming framework. The QuickStart samples are designed to be short, easy-to-understand illustrations of ASP.NET features Building Secure ASP.NET Applications This guide presents a practical, scenario driven approach to designing and building secure ASP.NET applications for Windows 2000 and version 1.0 of the .NET Framework. It focuses on the key elements of authentication, authorization, and secure communication within and across the tiers of distributed .NET Web applications. General .NET articles This is a large collection of .net articles at the Code Project that is organized into various categories such as ADO, encryption, etc. Overview of .NET Framework Classes This is a sample chapter at InformtIT. This chapter focuses on those classes that illustrate the key concepts and patterns that appear throughout the .NET Framework. Windows Forms QuickStart Tutorial The Windows Forms QuickStart is a series of Windows Forms samples and supporting commentary designed to quickly acquaint you with the programming model, architecture, and power of Windows Forms. The QuickStart samples are designed to be short, easy-to-understand illustrations of many of the features of Windows Forms Overview of ADO.NET Microsoft's .NET Framework Developer's Guide has a series of articles about the architecture and components of ADO.NET as well as a sample application. .NET Framework FAQ The .NET Framework FAQ was first posted in July 2000, and is regularly updated. It covers the fundamentals of the .NET Framework including assemblies, garbage collection, security, interop with COM and remoting. Newcomers to the .NET framework may wish to read the FAQ from top to bottom as a tutorial. More experienced practitioners may prefer to consult the contents list for topics of particular interest. Introduction to the .NET Framework A complete tutorial document on the Introduction to the .NET Framework. This tutorial includes information, as well as exercises and references to source code. Access to the sample code require that you login, but it appears to be free. There is also a slide presentation. W3Schools Microsoft .NET Site Includes and introductino to .net; descriptions of core building blocks, development tools, software, standards and applications; web services and more. MSDN .NET Framework Developer Center Microsoft's MSDN site for the .NET framework. Begins with fundamentals and goes up to the 64-bit .net framework. In their words: Explore in-depth technical information and get started building the next generation of applications and Web services using the .NET Framework. .NET Languages A list of .NET language implementations with links to their sites. Sams Teach Yourself Visual Studio .NET 2003 in 21 Days Sams Teach Yourself Visual Studio .NET in 21 Days will help developers that are new to application development and experienced developers understand how to use the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET to rapidly develop any type of computer. Application Interoperability: Microsoft .NET and J2EE Application Interoperability: Microsoft .NET and J2EE presents interoperability best practices, and illustrates these approaches with a functional sample application. It shows how to link Microsoft .NET and J2EE, using Web services, runtime bridges, and asynchronous techniques. Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability This guide provides processes and actionable steps for modeling performance, measuring, testing, and tuning your applications. Expert guidance is also provided for improving the performance of managed code, ASP.NET, Enterprise Services, Web services, remoting, ADO.NET, XML, and SQL Server. Web Services Enhancements (WSE) Web Services Enhancements for Microsoft .NET (WSE) is a supported add-on to Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework providing developers the latest advanced Web services capabilities to keep pace with the evolving Web services protocol specifications. Creating a .NET Web Service "This is the first of two articles on Web Services. Here we will create a .NET Web Service using C#. We will look closely at the Discovery protocol, UDDI, and the future of the Web Services." .NET Web Services Tutorial There are a lot of examples available for writing Web Services using VS.NET, but you will rarely find any examples of writing Web Services using only the .NET SDK. This article is exactly for this purpose. DotLisp An interactive, Lisp-like language for .Net scripting and development, having deep .Net integration, sharing type system, GC and other runtime services etc., with transparent access to .Net w/o a FFI or wrappers. Ruby/.NET Bridge The Ruby/.NET Bridge lets you use .NET and Ruby objects together in your programs. You can access .NET objects from Ruby and vice-versa. Python for .NET Python for .NET is a package that gives Python programmers nearly seamless integration with the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) and provides a powerful application scripting tool for .NET developers. Using this package you can script .NET applications or build entire applications in Python, using .NET services and components written in any language that targets the CLR (Managed C++, C#, VB, JScript). IronPython Workspace IronPython is the code name of the early pre-alpha preview release of the new Implementation Running on .NET of the Python programming language. It supports an interactive interpreter with fully dynamic compilation. It is well integrated with the rest of the framework and makes all .NET libraries easily available to Python programmers. IronPython IronPython is a new Python implementation targeting the .NET and Mono platforms. Delphi.NET Delphi.NET is a collection of Open Source tools and code components that enable Borland Delphi (version 5 or higher) to communicate with the Microsoft .NET-Framework A# - Ada for .NET A# is a port of Ada to the Microsoft .NET Platform. A# is freely distributed by the Department of Computer Science at the United States Air Force Academy as a service to the Ada community under the terms of the GNU general public license. Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 The Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 includes the core tools developers need to compile and link C++-based applications for Windows and the .NET Common Language Runtime. Phalanger - PHP Language Compiler for .NET Framework The aim of the Phalanger project is to create a module enabling execution of PHP scripts on the Microsoft .NET platform. This module is cooperating with the ASP.NET technology enabling it to generate web-pages written in PHP the same way ASP.NET pages are. Salford FTN95 With Salford FTN95: Fortran for Windows you can create console based, conventional Windows and Microsoft .NET applications. 64-Bit .NET Framework Development Tools The 64-bit .NET Framework SDK - which includes 64-bit hosted command-line compilers for C#, VB and J# as well as a 64-bit C/C++ cross-compiler, debuggers and a variety of other development tools. .NET Framework Downloads Stay up-to-date with these downloadable service packs, updates, samples, and related components for the .NET Framework. Visual Studio Express Microsoft is now offering Visual Studio Express for free, as a limited-in-time promotional offer, until November 6, 2006. |