What is .NET?

1)Microsoft .Net is a technology platform developed by Microsoft corporation and it helps in platform neutral and language independent application development.

2)Microsoft .NET is a frame work which supports development of different applications like Windows applications,Web applications,Mobile applications and Web services etc.,

3)It provides a consistent object oriented programming environment.

4).NET framework has two main components.They are

 a)CLR(Common language runtime) and b)Framework class library.

CLR is the main component responsible for running the .NET code on operating systems and it also provides different services like memory management,exception handling,threading etc.

Framework class library basically provides the support for development of different applications.It supports different code libraries which developers can use to develop their applications.

5)Microsoft .Net uses Common type system for language interoperability.

CTS has some set of standards to which all the .Net compilers must follow to have the code written in one language to be understood by other languages.