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G. ByrneTarget C#https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8619-7_1

1. .NET

Gerard Byrne1  
(1)
Belfast, Ireland
 

.NET: What Is It?

First, let us say that C# is a programming language, while .NET is the runtime that C# and other languages are built on. They are very different things, and when we program in C#, we need to be aware that we will intrinsically be using .NET. The version of .NET will be whatever version we download when we wish to start programming in C#. What .NET gives us as developers are libraries of code that save us from having to write our own code to perform particular tasks. For now, just think of a library as something where there are methods, ...

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