Microsoft, Oracle, and Sun are spelling out their strategy for Web development. All are battling to control the way programs will work in the next few years. By Michael J. Miller, ZDNet.

Explores the pros and cons of Micosoft's .NET platform, then dishes up some code to demonstrate .NET's language interoperability. By Jerome Kuptz.

Describes the .NET platform as a component framework. By John Hoagland, Components Online.

Articles about the .NET platform.

Discusses type fundamentals. Starts off by introducing primitive types and then quickly moves on to reference types and value types. By Jeffrey Richter, MSDN Magazine.

Articles and links on .NET. By internet.com Corp.

Confused about .NET? Robert Hess details a new way to think about the development of applications. By Robert Hess, MSDN.

Is .NET a radically new and innovative platform, as Microsoft claims? Or is it another migration path for Windows developers who have not yet embraced the Java platform? By Madhu Siddalingaiah.

WMI stands for Windows Management Instrumentation and, as the name indicates, is about managing your IT infrastructure this article provides an in-depth look at WMI and MOM 2005.

WMI stands for Windows Management Instrumentation and, as the name indicates, is about managing your IT infrastructure this article is the second part of a two-part series.

Describes the use of metadata for easy linking and loading of assemblies, the relationship between metadata and concepts such as IDL and type libraries, and the metadata hierarchy. By Matt Pietrek, MSDN Magazine.

eWEEK Labs' tests of betas of Microsoft servers show how the rhetoric meets the road. By Timothy Dyck.

The article highlights the largely overlooked issue that the quality of the data model, and not only performance, is paramount to ensure the reliability of enterprise applications.

An introduction to .NET Software Components Deployment. By Jean-Claude Batista.

Articles and discussions on Visual Studio.NET and the .NET Framework.

Pioneers are testing Microsoft's new architecture, even as components are being released. By Don Kiely.

A resource for Microsoft. NET information - find articles on C#, ASP.NET, VB.NET, and Web Services.

Have Privacy and Security Slipped Through Microsoft's .NET?: Part I. By Jason Harper.

Explains how resources are allocated and managed, then gives a description of how the garbage collection algorithm works. Also discussed are the way resources can clean up properly when the garbage collector decides to free a resource's memory and how to force an object to clean up when it is freed. By Jeffrey Richter, MSDN Magazine.

Explains strong and weak object references that help to manage memory for large objects, as well as object generations and how they improve performance. In addition, the use of methods and properties for controlling garbage collection, resources for monitoring collection performance, and garbage collection for multithreaded applications are covered. By Jeffrey Richter, MSDN Magazine.

Provides a collection of theme based articles for .net developers.

The .NET Framework and Runtime-and why you might care. How to get and install Beta 1 of the .NET Framework SDK and/or Visual Studio.NET. Looks at the metadata and IL for sample programs, and tours the documentation. By Dr. GUI.NET, MSDN.

Discusses the coding, compilation, and deployment process for writing managed classes that utilize COM+ services. By Jonathan Hawkins and Shannon Pahl, Microsoft Corporation.

A high-level comparison of the two platforms. By Jim Farley, O'Reilly.

What exactly is the .NET platform and how does the .NET architecture measure up against J2EE? By Jim Farley, author of Java Distributed Computing and co-author of Java Enterprise in a Nutshell.

Announces public availability and standardization of tools and platform for building Web services.

In the continuing quest to move higher into the enterprise data center, Microsoft this week will launch its .NET family of enterprise servers, including Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, the company's most powerful server operating system yet. By Tom Sullivan and Bob Trott.

Microsoft's latest announcement, called Microsoft .NET, while touted by the likes of Fortune Magazine as a huge "revolution", is really nothing but vaporware. By Joel Spolsky.

Exploiting Microsoft's enterprise application strategy, .NET, should prove a dream for IT managers. The pre-beta version is inherently scalable and easy to build and deploy, saving valuable time and resources. By Tom Yager, InfoWorld Test Center.

This article describes a simple yet elegant way of securing managed assemblies from easy disassembly by using the powerful interoperability features of .Net.

Introduces the concept of an assembly and describes how the .NET Framework uses assemblies to solve versioning and deployment problems. By Steven Pratschner, Microsoft.

MSDN Magazine article by Mark Gerlach that shows how to write a multi-threaded web crawler using Visual Base .NET .

Includes a tutorial on advanced C#/.NET topics like .NET Remoting and Channels, Reflection and Dynamic Method Invocation, Asynchronous Message Queuing using the .NET and COM+ Services, how to make HTTP GET and POST requests on Web Page using ASP+, C# & .NET.

A range of tutorials submitted by site users.

Jeff Prosise from Wintellect has agreed to step up to the podium and give us his thoughts on Life, the Universe, and .NET. Jeff Prosise answers your questions on .NET. By Chris Maunder.

Microsoft?s latest offers an unprecedented level of language interoperability for Web-based applications. By Bertrand Meyer, Software Development Magazine.

Visual Studio .NET has poor support for managing project resources such as bitmaps and icons. This is a short tutorial that explains the VS.NET resource management model, points you to a useful tool for editing resources, and provides example code for loading resources at run-time. By Dejan Jelovic.

During the early phase of the .NET Frameworks rollout, there is a high probability that controls authored with Windows Forms will need to be consumed in ActiveX containers such as IE and VB6. This article outlines how to do use Windows Forms controls in VB6 and also goes over some recommended design guidelines. By Mike Harsh, Microsoft.

Windows Forms controls within IE are activated without user prompt, require no registration and utilize the Common Language Runtime (CLR) code access security. By Erick Ellis, Microsoft.

Overview and commentary on .NET and C# initiatives. By Gopalan Suresh Raj.

Visual Studio.NET topples cross-language barriers so businesses can produce creative code quicker. By Tom Yager, InfoWorld Test Center.

Microsoft, riding the wave of its newfound popularity as an Internet standards supporter, claims it will do with .NET what Sun refuses to do with Java: push it as an open standard. By Paula Rooney, CRN.

Columnist Paul Thurrott kicks off the Windows 2000 Magazine Network's .NET Channel.

To be a player in the .NET development world you must understand XML and SOAP. By Kenn Scribner.

Microsoft .NET introduces a new suite of XML APIs built on industry standards such as DOM, XPath, XSD, and XSLT. A discussion of the XMLDOM-Document is also included. By Aaron Skonnard, MSDN Magazine.