Highlights of .NET
If other major development releases from Microsoft could be heard as “bangs,” the arrival of .NET could be heard with an atomic explosion. The last major development release was Visual Studio, when the cry for a shared integrated environment (IDE) was partially answered by Microsoft. I say partially because Visual Basic still used its own IDE in 6.0. Not only does Visual Studio .NET finally serve as the primary IDE for all .NET languages, but the .NET framework itself has complete cross-language support built into its runtime. Using cross-language inheritance, exception handling, and debugging, developers can truly choose their weapon of choice. This was a calling card of component models for years but not at the level of simplicity ...
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