Microsoft .NET is a platform comprising servers, clients, and services. Its toolset consists of Visual Studio .NET, the Tablet PC, and the .NET My Services. Microsoft .NET was designed to meet the customers' needs in building, deploying and operating applications. Microsoft .NET was built for integration through XML Web services using protocols and file formats such as SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), WSDL (Web Services Description Language), and UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration).
A web service-based IT architecture can be developed and deployed with a set of Microsoft.NET products and tools: servers, web services development tools, applications to use them. .NET technologies are supported throughout the family of Microsoft products, including the Windows Server System, the Windows XP desktop operating system, and the Microsoft Office System. |
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