1.NET Applications and Tools
FROM .NET FRAMEWORK TO .NET CORE TO .NET
The first version of .NET was released in 2002. Since the first version, many things have changed. The first era of .NET was the .NET Framework that offered Windows Forms for Windows desktop development and Web Forms to create web applications. This version of .NET was available only for Microsoft Windows. At that time, Microsoft also invented a standard for C# at ECMA (https://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-334.htm).
Later, Silverlight used a subset of this technology with a limited library and runtime running in browsers using a browser add-in. At that time, the company Ximian developed the Mono runtime. This runtime was available for Linux and Android and offered a subset of Microsoft .NET’s functionality. Later, Novell bought Ximian, and Novell ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access