InfoWorld Special Report: 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"
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.