What can be one of the most significant steps forward in .net framework deveopment is the availability of the source code to the .net class library.

You can know more about this in the post of Scott

.net framework is the product of Microsoft released in 2002 as version 1.0. From then till now it has gone a long way and still in the process of evolving into what Microsoft say as one stop solution for all the programmers.

The most important objective of .net framework is platform independence and interoperability.

The .net label packages two products:- the .net framework and the Visual Studio.

  • The .net framework consists of the CLR and the Base Class Library. The Common Language Runtime gives you the platform to build the applications and the Base class library gives a vast collection of readymade classes which we can use for our software development.
  • The Visual Studio is IDE(Integrated Development Environment) which has a cornucopia of features to design our interfaces. I must say that Microsoft has done an awesomr job here…it makes life unbelievable easy for developers. It has multiple features like drag and drop the controls, debugging with watch and many other features which were present in the visula studio 6.0 but now have improved a lot.