Microsoft® .NET Kick Start

Introduction

From a developer productivity perspective, the .NET Framework class library (sometimes known as FCL) provides the biggest time savings. Included in the FCL are numerous classes organized in their respective namespaces (System, System.Xml, System.Data, System.IO, System.Text, System.Remoting, System.Windows.Forms, System.Web, and so on) for making common development tasks much easier than before. Although several programming libraries—some from Microsoft and a large number from independent software vendors—have existed to do similar tasks before, the programming models were quite different. What works in VB won't work in Visual C++. Also, because no standard existed, several implementations were available. .NET FCL provides a set ...