What is .NET, why it matters for you & why hire a .NET expert?

.NET is an open, cross-platform, open-source developer framework for creating many various categories of applications. With .NET, you can use many languages, libraries, and editors to create for the web, desktop, games, mobile, IoT, and more.


.Net framework was 1.0 which arrived in the year 2002. In simple words, it is a virtual machine for assembling and executing programs written in various languages like C#, VB.Net, etc.


It is utilized to create Form-based applications, Web-based applications, and Web services. There is a diversity of programming languages usable on the .Net platform, VB.Net and C# being the most popular ones. It is utilized to develop applications for phones, Windows, the web, etc. It gives a lot of functionalities and also favors industry standards.


More than 60 programming languages are supported by the .NET framework in which 11 programming languages are formulated and generated by Microsoft. The remaining Non-Microsoft Languages are supported by .NET Framework but not formulated and generated by Microsoft.


Three important phases of the development of .NET technology:

  • OLE Technology
  • COM Technology
  • .NET Technology


OLE Technology:

One of the technologies of Microsoft’s component document is OLE (Object Linking and Embedding). Its primary purpose is to combine elements from various applications within each other.


COM Technology:

 The technology of the Microsoft Windows family of the operating system, Microsoft COM (Common Object Model) allows different software components to communicate. COM is largely used by developers for various objectives like developing reusable software components, linking components concurrently to build applications, and also taking advantage of Windows services. The objects of COM can be developed with a wide range of programming languages.


.NET Technology:

 .NET technology of collection of technologies to create windows and web applications. The technology of .Net is formulated by Microsoft and was inaugurated in Feb. 2002, by basic definition, Microsoft’s new Internet Strategy. It was originally called NGWS (Next Generation Web Services). It is considered to be one of the strong, famous, and very useful Internet Technology available today.


11 Programming Languages that are formulated and generated by Microsoft are:

  • C#.NET
  • VB.NET
  • C++.NET
  • J#.NET
  • F#.NET
  • JSCRIPT.NET
  • WINDOWS POWERSHELL
  • IRON RUBY
  • IRON PYTHON
  • C OMEGA
  • ASML (Abstract State Machine Language)


Main Components of .NET Framework

Common Language Runtime (CLR):

CLR is the fundamental and Virtual Machine component of the .NET Framework. It is the run-time environment in the .NET Framework that runs the codes and supports in making the development process easier by giving various services such as remoting, thread management, type-safety, memory management, robustness, etc. It is responsible for managing the execution of .NET programs regardless of any .NET programming language. It also helps in the management of code, as code that targets the runtime is known as Managed Code, and code that doesn’t target to runtime is known as Unmanaged code.


Framework Class Library (FCL):

 It is the collection of reusables, object-oriented class libraries, methods, etc. that can be integrated with CLR. Also called the Assemblies. It is just like the header files in C/C++ and packages in java. Installing the .NET framework is the installation of CLR and FCL into the system. Below is the overview of the .NET Framework.


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