If we were to describe the C# language and its associated environment, the .NET Framework, as the most important new technology for developers for many years, we would not be exaggerating. .NET is designed to provide a new environment within which you can develop almost any application to run on Windows, while C# is a new programming language that has been designed specifically to work with .NET. Using C# you can, for example, write a dynamic Web page, an XMLWeb service, a component of a distributed application, a database access component, or a classic Windows desktop application. This book covers the .NET Framework 1.1, the second release of the framework, though most of this book also applies to .NET Framework 1.0. If you are coding using version 1.0, then you might have to make some changes, which we try to note throughout the book. download
