The .NET Framework (pronounced dot net) is a software framework that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows. It includes a large library and supports several programming languages like C++,C#(C Sharp) etc. which allows language interoperability (each language can use code written in other languages). Programs written for the .NET Framework execute in a software environment (as contrasted to hardware environment), known as the Common Language Runtime (CLR), an application virtual machine that provides important services such as security, memory management, and exception handling. The class library and the CLR together constitute the .NET Framework.
The .NET Framework's Base Class Library provides user interface, data access, database connectivity, cryptography, web application development, numeric algorithms, and network communications. Programmers produce software by combining their own source code with the .NET Framework and other libraries. The .NET Framework is intended to be used by most new applications created for the Windows platform.
.Net Framework development is started for 1990 by Microsoft with the name Next Generation Windows Services (NGWS). In 2002 Microsoft introduce first version of .Net.
After that many other versions are released like .Net Version 1.1, 2.0, 3.0 etc. Now the latest version of .net is 4.5 was release in 2011.
Features Of .Net Framework
.Net has following features:
- Interoperability
- Common Language Runtime (CLR)
- Language In-dependency
- Base Class Interface
- Portability
- Simplify Development
