Gibbons shows developers how to move a J2EE application to .NET at the enterprise level, with detailed and serious discussions of how to port Servlet, JSP or EJB-based applications to ASP.NET.

Paul Gibbons works as a consultant for Volt Technical Resources. He has used many programming languages in more than 25 years of software development, but his current favorite is C#. Originally from Yorkshire, England, he now lives in Washington state with his wife and three children. In his spare time, he enjoys gardening and bird watching.

1 Introducing C#.- 2 Introducing the C# Language.- 3 Introducing the .NET Platform.- 4 Using WinForms.- 5 Building Web Sites with ASP.NET.- 6 Exploring ADO.NET.- 7 Understanding Multithreading.- 8 Understanding Networking.- 9 Working with XML.- 10 Creating Components.- 11 Packaging and Installing Applications.- 12 Communicating via Message Queuing.- 13 Using Active Directory Service Interface.- 14 Developing Windows Services.- 15 Getting Outside the Box.- 16 Migrating to .NET.