B345 Internet Science and Technology 
Week 8 lecture 1

Today's Lecture Learning Objective
- Understand the basic architecture of Microsoft .NET.

Architecture
- Stakeholders
    - Concerns
- Descriptions from Microsoft.
- Descriptions from other literature.

Some Stakeholders and Concerns
- Users
    - Features
    - Ease of use
    - Security

- Owners and Managers
    - Features
    - Ease of use
    - Cost (purchase/deployment/operations/maintenance)
    - Security

- Support Personnel
    - Ease of deployment
    - Testing and Monitoring
    - Security

- Developers
    - Ease of development (individual/team)
    - Future-proofing

Unraveling the Hype
<< See first diagram at http://www.microsoft.com/net/basics/whatis.asp >>
<< See diagram on page 3 of 4 at http://www.microsoft.com/net/downloads/net_today.pdf>>

More Specific Concerns
- Developers
    - Infrastructure leverage

- Users
    - Extensible features
    - Configurable features
    - Availability on platform

- Managers
    - Extensible features
    - Configurable features
    - Interoperability

- Support Personnel
    - Ease of infrastructure maintenance
    - Ease of updates

Managed Code and CLR

<< See Diagram A >>

.NET Applications

<< See Diagram B >>

Application Execution 

<< See Diagram C >>

Cross Language Development

<< See Diagram D and E >>