Dot Net Introduction

Dot NET is a collection of tools, technologies, and languages that all work together in a  framework to provide the solutions that are needed to easily build and deploy truly robust enterprise applications.

These .NET applications are also able to easily communicate with one another and provide information and application logic, regardless of platforms and languages.

.NET initiative

•          Introduced by Microsoft (June 2000)

           –   Vision for embracing the Internet in software development

•          Independence from specific language or platform

          –   Applications developed in any .NET-compatible language

          –   Visual Basic.NET, Visual C++.NET, C# and more

–   Supports portability and interoperability

•          Architecture capable of existing on multiple platforms

–   Supports portability