The QuickStart Tutorials are the fastest way to understand what the .NET Framework technology offers leading-edge developers. Inside you'll find information about the most compelling features of the .NET Framework technology, including how to put them immediately to work for you or your company. To get started, follow the links below.

The ASP.NET QuickStart
ASP.NET is a rich programming framework for building web-based applications. It offers outstanding support for both developers and administrators, providing improved ease-of-use, tool support, reliability, scalability, administration and security. The ASP.NET QuickStart walks through a series of sample code and concepts to teach you how to make the most of this powerful technology.

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The ASP.NET Mobile Controls QuickStart
ASP.NET Mobile Controls extends the ASP.NET Web Forms architecture, enabling a single mobile Web Forms page to target a wide variety of mobile devices like cell phones, PDAs and pagers. The ASP.NET Mobile Controls QuickStart is a series of samples and supporting commentary designed to quickly acquaint you with the mobile controls. The QuickStart samples are designed to be short, easy-to-understand samples of common tasks. Completing the QuickStart tutorial, is a great way to get started on your first mobile Web application. Note: This QuickStart assumes completion of the ASP.NET QuickStart.

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The Windows Forms QuickStart
Windows Forms is a rich programming framework for building Win32 client applications. It offers great support for Win32 developers, providing improved ease-of-use, superb tool support, rock solid reliability, much lower deployment costs and associated reductions in total cost of ownership. The Windows Forms QuickStart walks through a series of sample code and concepts to teach you how to make the most of this powerful technology.

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The Common Tasks QuickStart
This How Do I...? section demonstrates some of the more common tasks that developers need to accomplish, such as reading and parsing XML, performing data access, and accessing services like Active Directory or Win32 APIs.

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Microsoft Visual J# .NET and other Late Breaking QuickStart Tutorials
Late breaking QuickStart Tutorials are available on the web. This site includes Visual J# QuickStart Tutorials as well as other samples available after the release of the SDK. There is no guarantee that all of the tutorials found on this site meet the same quality standards as those found in the SDK.

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