If you design applications, or if you build, test, or document solutions, you need this book. If your applications are Web-based or Win32-based, you need this book. Finally, if you are currently learning or building Microsoft .NET Framework–based applications, you need this book. In short, if you are involved in building applications, you will find much to learn in this book.
Even if you're writing code that doesn't run on a Microsoft platform, much of the material in this book is still useful. Except for a few chapters that are entirely Microsoft-specific, the same types of problems tend to occur regardless of platform. Even when something might seem to be applicable only to Windows, it often has broader application. For example, an Everyone Full Control access control list and a file set to World Writable on a UNIX system are really the same problem, and cross-site scripting issues are universal.
