.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, ...