.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.

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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
• Programming languages
  • C++/CLI
  • C#
  • F#
  • J#
  • JScript .NET
  • Visual Basic .NET
  • IronPython
• Tools
  • Microsoft Visual Studio IDE
  • Windows PowerShell command line interpreter