The .NET Framework is a framework for developing and implementing software for personal computer, web etc.
• It was designed and is maintained by Microsoft Corporation.
• It came out around the year 2000, even though Microsoft started its development in early 90s.
• .NET has a rich collection of class library (called the Base Class Library) to implement GUI, query, database, web services etc.
• Programs developed with
.NET needs a virtual machine to run on a host. This virtual machine is called Common Languag Runtime (CLR).
• Since the compiler doesn’t produce native machine code, and its product is interpreted by the CLR, there’s much security.
• .NET allows using types defined by one.NET language to be used by another under the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) specification, for the conforming languages.
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