Introduction to Microsoft .NET Framework

Hello Friends,

This article is for the beginners who are looking for a basic idea about ASP.NET. In this article I am going to give a general overview about Microsoft .NET framework.

.NET Framework :

.NET framework is the infrastructure for Microsoft .NET platform which provides an environment for developing, deploying and executing web application and services.

ASP (Active Server Pages) was Microsoft’s first server technology. ASP was nether application framework or enterprise development tool and it was too code oriented.

So Microsoft developed .NET framework to solve this problem.

.NET framework consists of 3 main parts :

1.      Programming Language :

·         C# : It is pronounced as “C sharp” and it is a simple object-oriented programming language.

·         Visual Basic (VB.NET) : It is an object-oriented programming language that can be termed as evolution of classic Visual Basic (VB).

·         J# : it is pronounced as “J sharp” and it is intended for Java  and Visual J++ programmers so they can use their existing knowledge on .NET framework.

2.      Server technologies and client technologies :

·         ASP.NET (Active Server Pages) : It is a server side technology that enables scripts to be run by Internet server.

·         Windows Forms (Windows desktop solution) : It is used to design cross platform graphical user interfaces.

·         Compact Framework (PDA / Mobile solution) : .NET framework version designed to run on mobile/embedded devices.

3.      Development environments :

·         Visual Studio .NET (VS .NET) : VS .NET is a complete set of development tool to create desktop applications, web applications, mobile applications and web services.

·          Visual Web Developer : Visual Web Developer is development tool used form for creating web application in variety of configurations.