July 2002
Beginner
720 pages
14h 35m
English
Content preview from A Programmer's Guide to .NET
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Chapter 1. .NET platform overview
In this chapter we will provide an overview of the Microsoft .NET platform and discuss its main components. Microsoft .NET can be considered from different points of view. As a platform, it consists of the following product groups.
Development tools A set of languages, including C#, VB.NET, J#, a set of development tools, including Visual Studio.NET (a suite of language-independent developer tools, a set of programming interfaces), .NET Framework (for building web and Windows applications, as well as web services), and Common Language Runtime, which is the execution engine for .NET Framework applications ...
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