A Guide to Building Enterprise Applications on the .NET Framework (Building Distributed Applications)

A MUST read --> A Guide to Building Enterprise Applications on the .NET Framework (Building Distributed Applications): "This document describes the technical basis for building enterprise-scale Web-based applications using the Microsoft .NET Framework and Windows Server 2003. This new generation of applications is needed to meet the demands of enterprise computing over an Internet standard distributed network infrastructure utilizing a highly flexible, standards-based, powerful software infrastructure for integrating existing investments with next-generation applications and services."