Student's Essential Guide to .NET

There are a huge number of books in the area of .NET technologies, but they are all either based on teaching a supported language, such as VB.NET, C++, C#, or they are aimed at professionals switching to .NET from a more traditional approach. The lack of textbooks is due to the fact that .NET is only now starting to be taught in universities. The Student's Essential Guide to .NET is the first textbook available on the subject to provide a clear and simple overview of Microsoft's .NET technologies to those who are just beginning to learn about this emerging topic. It is aimed at second and third year undergraduate students and postgraduate students on Computing or Computer Science courses who are required to look at a modern operating system, (Microsoft Windows 9x, Nt 2000 or XP) and to design and code simple or even not so simple examples. The approach is based upon the student's learning the technology of .NET through examples using the support