What is .NET? 

Microsoft .NET is a software framework that enables one to develop applications for different environments and devices. It integrates various technologies on a single platform so as to enable users to develop internet applications as easily as they do on desktop systems.

.NET is one of the powerful technologies released by Microsoft aiming at fulfilling the idea of software as a service. Introduction of .NET was the first step taken by Microsoft towards making this idea into a reality.

.NET is Microsoft’s new initiative for building applications regardless of the platforms or languages in use. .NET is a new vision, philosophy, and endeavor towards future of the internet computing. It is a vision of how information technology will evolve. It is a vision to empower people through great software that operates on anytime, anyplace, and on any device.

This is to exploit the power of the internet, to an extent that people can use any computing device to do whatever they want to do anytime, anywhere.

It allows creating traditional window-based applications, server components, and applications that can run on any device such as a PC or a mobile device. In addition, .NET enables seamless data exchange between various applications and devices. The .NET framework is the infrastructure that provides the execution engine and runtime services to applications created using .NET.

The .NET framework is a collection of tools, technologies, and languages. It is a platform or an environment in which web applications are created. These applications can be used by client machines anywhere in the world. The .NET is a platform-dependent framework that can support multiple languages such as VB.NET, C#, JavaScript, Vbscript, and managed C++. Also, applications created in the .NET environment can be executed on different platforms such as Linux and so on.

The .NET framework provides an environment that keeps one free to use any of the programming languages available with it.

The developer uses the programming languages in which the user feels comfortable. It is the headache of the framework to make the code compatible with every machine and produce the same results. Thus, .NET provides a common development platform for global developers and brings them all together.