A .NET Reader

In putting together the presentation I gave at the Babson College Center for Information Management Studies (www.babson.edu/CIMS), I found many informative .NET references. Here is an annotated bibliography of the best readings:

• What .NET Means for IT Professionals—Microsoft’s take on why an IT organization should move to the .NET framework. A good introduction that focuses on the benefits of .NET for application deployment.

• Clarifying the .NET Message—a short note on what the .NET framework is and why it is hard to explain .NET to IT managers.

• Microsoft .NET Development—a more technical introduction to the .NET framework.

• Simplifying Deployment and Solving DLL Hell with the .NET Framework—a detailed view of how the .NET framework simplifies deployment.

• ASP.NET Code Behind Pages—a description, by way of an example, of how ASP.NET differs from ASP.

• .NET Alerts Overview—An example of how .NET web services work.

• Comparing Microsoft .NET Pet Shop Performance and Scalability to the Sun Java Pet Store Comparing Microsoft .NET Pet Shop Performance and Scalability to the Sun Java Pet Store—a speed comparison between .NET and J2EE (.NET wins!)

For more information on the presentation, see Introducing .NET in Your Organization, this month’s other article.