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Once upon a time, NGWS and the .NET Framework

The following is a little bit of history to explain how the .NET Framework has evolved over the years and why you have to consider the .NET Core Framework today:

Microsoft has started working on what we know now as the .NET Framework in the late 1990s and has released a first beta version of .NET Framework 1.0 in late 2001.

Originally, the framework was named NGWS for Next Generation Windows Services (internal codename Lightning/Project 42). In the beginning, developers could only use VB.NET as a programming language. More than 10 Framework versions later, a lot has been achieved. Today, you can ...

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