.NET
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Microsoft's .NET is a popular runtime-based framework aimed to replace Microsoft Foundation Classes. .NET is often compared to Java, however, the two are inherently very different because .NET and its CLR runtimes are not cross-platform, whereas Java's goal from its inception has been to work on many operating systems and on many different processor architectures.
[edit] Features
Components and features of Microsoft .NET include:
- ADO.NET data access library
- ASP.NET web page development
- Managed code
- Common Language Runtime (CLR)
- Common Language Infrastructure (CLI)
- Common Intermediate Language
- Common Type System
- Languages
- Tools
- Microsoft Visual Studio IDE
- Windows PowerShell command line interpreter
