Microsoft
.NET is a set of Microsoft software technologies
that connect people information, systems and devices;
which was officially released to the public in early
2002. Today Microsoft .Net is the centerpiece
technology around which all of Microsoft’s
suite of products, solutions and services are based..NET
technologies provide a business with a solid
foundation for building web centric applications.
It enables a high level of software integration by
allowing applications to connect to each other as
well as to other applications over the Internet .
Microsoft .NET consists of the following:
- The .NET framework, used for building and running applications.
- Development tools like Microsoft Visual Studio
.NET which provides the Integrated development
environment for designing and developing .NET applications.
- A set of servers like Microsoft Windows server 2003, BizTalk servers and SQL servers, which help integrate and run applications.
The .NET framework is the integral foundation for building the next generation of applications and web services. The framework provides the following:
- Support for more than 20 programming languages. This capability allows the developers to choose a language, which is most appropriate for a given task and also helps to combine multiple languages in a single application.
- Management of the lower level operating system interactions, allowing the developers to concentrate on the core business logic.
- Ability to easily design, develop, build and deploy high performance applications. The
component-based design of the .NET Framework minimizes the amount of code that engineers have to rewrite and maximizes the potential for code reuse.
