In July 2000, Microsoft
announced a whole new software development framework for Windows called .NET in
the Professional Developer Conference (PDC). After releasing of different Betas
of .NET, finally in March 2002 Microsoft released final version of the .NET
framework.
.NET is a name for a new strategy for building application for the
next decade. The .net framework is an enormous collection of functions for any
programming task. It contains all the functionality of the operating system and
makes it available to application through numerous methods.
The programming
languages in Visual Studio run in the .NET Framework. The Framework provided
for easier development of Web-based and Windows-based applications, allows
objects from different languages to operate together, and standardizes how the
languages refer to data and objects. Several third-party vendors have announced
or have released versions of other programming languages to run in the .NET
Framework, including .NET versions of APL by Dyalog, FORTRAN by Lahey Computer
Systems, COBOL by Fujitsu Software Corporation, Pascal by the Queensland
University of Technology (free), PERL by ActiveState, RPG by ASNA, and Java,
known as IKVM.NET. The .NET languages all compile to (are translated to) a
common machine language, called Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL). The
MSIL code, called managed code, runs in the Common Language Runtime (CLR),
which is part of the .NET Framework.
VisualStudio.NET is the environment that provides all the necessary
tools for developing applications. The language is only one aspect of a windows
application.
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