September 2002
Intermediate to advanced
496 pages
10h
English
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Chapter One. .NET Framework
The open source language Perl has become one of the most popular languages in the world, widely used as a scripting language in Web applications. Microsoft .NET is a new framework in the Windows environment that allows multiple languages to compile down to the Common Language Runtime (CLR) and to make use of the vast array of functionality provided by the .NET Framework class library. Microsoft itself provides support for the languages C#, Visual Basic .NET, Visual C++ .NET, and JScript .NET. Third parties are providing support for many other programming languages in the .NET environment. ActiveState supports Perl through the PerlNET tool. In this chapter, we introduce the .NET Framework in sufficient detail so that ...