The Promise and Foundation of .NET

The Promise and Foundation of .NET .NET provides a framework for web services used by Microsoft’s Windows, which is the standard operating system on the majority of personal and business computers. These web services include pre-existing IT (and specifically web services) protocols and technologies like XML (Extensible Markup Language), SOAP (Simple Object-Access Protocol), WSDL (Web Services Description Language) and the universal business directory UDDI (Universal Description, Discover and Integration). Introduction While .NET allows Microsoft to centralize the programming support for its web services, it is also a Microsoft business strategy providing users, both business and personal, with Web-based interfaces for...