Top 10 Things to Be Thankful for in .NET

From    TSS   Author: by Paul Ballard

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Multithreading in VB.NET - [/b]Now VB[/b] developers can know the pleasure of deadlocks,race conditions,and other seemingly unexplainable phenomenon. 

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Compact Framework[/b] - Who says you need a PC to get an unhandled exception? 

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ASP.NET WebForms[/b] - Jamming a square peg into a round hole was never this easy.

 

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EnterpricseServices[/b] - COM+ without IDL; it's like a sports car without mudflaps.

 

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Object Orientation in VB.NET[/b] - For showing VB6 Developers that what they were doing before wasn't OO.Not even close.

 

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XML[/b] - Now putting anything between angle brackets guarantees it will become an immediate industry standard.

 

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ADO.NET[/b] - For disconnecting us from our data source whether we like it or not.

 

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Smart Clients[/b] - For making it possible for developers all over the world to use the words "smart" and "client" in the same sentence.

 

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C# [/b]- Java without the religious zealotry and the silly coffee references.

 

1.[/b]

Web Services[/b] - So easy to build in .NET that anybody can screw them up.