Compared to the Microsoft Win32/COM+ platform and the Sun JAVA platform, the new Microsoft.NET is a (r)evolution that offers us an innovative application framework with one single Common Language Runtime for a range of programming languages and programming-paradigms. C# and VB.NET are new Microsoft .NET programming languages, both perfectly suitable to create object- and service-oriented enterprise applications. This article shows how the .NET framework, including the ADO.NET and the XML.NET Framework, enables us to switch from the client-server programming paradigm to the web service-based paradigm, all of this being achieved by means of th..
