.NET technology: Next generation programming platform
In past the software development of really comprehensive reliable user friendly enterprise information system with expandable architecture that could unite all previously installed applications and would be capable to provide interaction with partners:
- Demanded considerable expenses of time and resources;
- Was connected with unpredictable risks caused by products incompatibility or with changes in policy of custom software development companies and other solution providers;
- Supposed the necessity to search single-functioned workers or to study incompatible products by the enterprises’ IT staff.
But everything have changed with the development and introduction of .NET technology, which is the main object of Microsoft company investments today. Several years had passed from that moment when .Net technology was announced and introduced world-wide. During these years Microsoft’s new platform has gained acceptance of different offshore development centers and software vendors. Undoubtedly, the development of .NET technology was influenced by other technological achievements, in particular by Extensible Markup Language, Java ™ platform, and by Component Object Model as well.
However, the new .NET platform, offered by Microsoft Company, possesses the improved interoperability. .NET technology provides offshore software development centers and other computer companies with a fundamentally new platform and magnificent development tools, in which the leading role is played by XML language.
.NET platform provides:
- Steady Common Language Runtime – CLR, which is a part of given platform;
- Applications development environment for any programming language supported by .NET platform;
- Large class library of .NET Framework underlying open model of programming. These classes contain reused code. They are accessible in any programming language supported by .NET platform;
- Network infrastructure support, constructed on the top layer of Internet standards owing to what high level of interaction between applications is provided;
- New industry standard support, notably Web-services technologies;
- Security mode,. which can be easily used by programmers in their applications.
. NET Platform consists of:
- .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET development tools;
- .NET Enterprise Servers family (they are intended mostly for implementation and integration of wide range of services on the basis of Web-standards and technologies);
- .NET Building Block Services (so-called “building blocks” should help developers of .NET applications to solve such different standard problems as personalization, authorization, etc);
- Software for various devices. Such programs allow various devices –personal computers, mobile phones, etc – to work on .NET-platform;
- Various run-time environments, corresponding to different categories of users.
Owing to advantages of .NET technology, described above, the platform provides custom software development companies with a number of additional possibilities.
First of all, by means of CLR environment (Common Language Runtime), a part of.NET Framework, custom software development companies can create XML web services, using any modern programming language. CLR considerably expands the range of resources, available to developers, allowing them to choose appropriate programming language for solving of any specific target.
Secondly, the platform allows to raise reliability of work of applications and to optimize system operation in whole. Ordering use of accessible resources influencing system performance and network throughput, .NET platform allows in full to realize all advantages of distributed computer environments.
General CLR environment provides high controllability, protection against memory leak and access violation, removes the problems connected with versions mismatch.
.NET Framework specification provides safe casting, code sharing, isolation at the level of applications, guaranteeing that one XML web service will not affect another.
Thirdly, the platform simplifies software integration. Barriers, interfering data sharing and software integration, could be easily overcome thanks to XML language (open standard regulated by World Wide Web Consortium) that is used to adjust data exchange within the limits of Microsoft .NET platform. CLR environment provides control unification, thanks to which XML web services written in any programming language, can interact with each other. .NET platform also includes the possibilities of databases access, allowing offshore software development companies to include ODBC-compatible data warehouses in architecture developed applications.
And at last, Microsoft .NET platform allows offshore software development companies to decrease internal expenses on development and to expand spectrum of services rendered to customers. New technology gives the opportunity to use existing applications, data warehouse and XML web services, developed by different offshore development centers to be used in company work.
Today a lot of offshore development centers successfully use .NET technology in their work.
Yumasoft Company, being the leader in the sphere of custom software development, actively uses .NET platform in its work, offering clients the best solutions based on usage of such tools as C#,C++, ASP.NET , WinForms, XML Web Services.