January 2011
Intermediate to advanced
1648 pages
70h 30m
English
As mentioned before, the .NET platform is a multilanguage platform, meaning different programming languages can be used to build .NET applications and class libraries. Right from the introduction of the .NET Framework, both Microsoft and external vendors offered a rich set of languages compatible with the runtime, its type system, and the CLS. At the time of this writing, more than 50 languages (according to Wikipedia) have been implemented on top of the runtime.
The core languages provided by Microsoft as part of the .NET Framework 4.0 software development kit (SDK) and the Visual Studio 2010 language family are as follows:
• Visual Basic .NET: A language immediately familiar to people who’ve written (classic) ...
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