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.NET is the Microsoft Web services strategy to connect information,
people, systems and devices through software.
Integrated across the Microsoft platform, .NET technology provides the ability
to quickly build, deploy, manage and use connected, security-enhanced solutions with
Web services. .NET-connected solutions enable businesses to integrate their systems
more rapidly, in a more agile manner and help them realise the promise of information
anytime, anywhere, on any device.
If you ask a developer what Web services are, you'll hear something like,
"self-describing software modules, semantically encapsulating discrete functionality,
wrapped in and accessible via standard Internet communication protocols like XML and SOAP."
But if you ask a business leader who has implemented Web service-based solutions,
you'll get a different kind of answer. You'll hear that Web services are an approach
that helps the business connect with its customers, partners, and employees.
They enable the business to extend existing services to new customers.
They help the business work more efficiently with its partners and suppliers.
They unlock information so it can flow to every employee who needs it.
They reduce development time and expense for new projects.
You'll hear less about what Web services are and more about what they enable
the business to do.
By enabling applications to share data across different hardware platforms
and operating systems, Web services provide many benefits, including:
Opening the door to new business opportunities by making it easy to connect with partners.
Delivering dramatically more personal, integrated experiences to users through the new breed of smart devices—including PCs.
Saving time and money by cutting development time.
Increasing revenue streams by enabling businesses to easily make their own Web services available to others.
Ajax, or AJAX, is a web development technique used for creating
interactive web applications. The intent is to make web pages feel
more responsive by exchanging small amounts of data with the server
behind the scenes, so that the entire web page does not have to be reloaded
each time the user requests a change. This is intended to increase the web page's
interactivity, speed, functionality, and usability.
Ajax is asynchronous in that loading does not interfere with normal page loading.
JavaScript is the programming language in which Ajax function calls are made.
Data retrieved using the technique is commonly formatted using XML, as reflected in
the naming of the XMLHttpRequest object from which Ajax is derived.
Ajax is a cross-platform technique usable on many different operating systems,
computer architectures, and Web browsers as it is based on open standards such as
JavaScript and XML, together with open source implementations of other required technologies.
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is a comprehensive, integrated data
management and analysis software that enables organisations to
reliably manage mission-critical information and confidently run
today’s increasingly complex business applications. SQL Server 2005
allows companies to gain greater insight from their business information and
achieve faster results for a competitive advantage.