What is the .NET Framework?
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.NET may be new to some of you, but it is there for more than 3 years. It was first shown to industry in year 2000. Since then it has been making news. Well of course there are many fans and many critics. What we want to know is what it is." This piece comes to us from December Contest Finalist Naranjan Babu Kalla. Did he win? Check out this week's
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What is .NET Framework?
.NET may be new to some of you, but it is there for more than 3 years. It was first shown to industry in year 2000. Since then it has been making news. Well of course there are many fans and many critics. What we want to know is what it is.
.NET is the framework for which we develop applications. It sits in between our application programs and operating system. Applications developed for .NET run inside .NET and are controlled by .NET. It supports both Windows and web applications.
Applications developed for .NET make use of the features of .NET. We will see more of features of .NET later in this piece.
.NET provides an object oriented environment. It ensures safe execution of the code by performing required runtime validations. For example, it is never possible to access an element of an array outside the boundary. Similarly, it is not possible to a program to write into another programs area, etc. The runtime validations performed by .NET makes the entire environment robust.
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