Does Microsoft .Net measure up?


"Microsoft's bet-the-company initiative turns 4 this year. Are developers happier? Has the Windows experience improved? We take stock of .Net's tools and technologies for a top-to-bottom evaluation"
InfoWorld Special Report: Does Microsoft .Net measure up?

.Net's support for Web services wins universal acclaim. Some of the developers Infoworld interviewed for this report said back in 2002 that Microsoft's SOAP stack didn't always work smoothly with other vendors' stacks. But nobody complains about that today. The promise of cross-platform XML messaging has become a reality. Having it all packaged so easily, with the human interfaces thouht through, really makes things flow.

As a result, we're starting to see the kinds of network effects that justify all the early excitement about Web services. If you're going to build a Web-services-based billing engine it had better be a minor task for your customers to be able to consume your services. Visual Studio .Net makes it so and thereby helps deliver on one of .Net's key promises.


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