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"Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] dev null> wrote in message
news:48f0bcf5$1@news.povray.org...
> As I understand it, it's sorta-kinda like the Java virtual machine +
> library assemblage, except explicitly designed to support multiple
> source-level languages instead of just one.
And do you know which source languages talk to it?
> (It wasn't easy to find this information, mind you...)
"The Microsoft .NET Framework is a software technology that is available
with several Microsoft Windows operating systems. It includes a large
library of pre-coded solutions to common programming problems and a virtual
machine that manages the execution of programs written specifically for the
framework. The .NET Framework is a key Microsoft offering and is intended to
be used by most new applications created for the Windows platform.
The pre-coded solutions that form the framework's Base Class Library cover a
large range of programming needs in a number of areas, including user
interface, data access, database connectivity, cryptography, web application
development, numeric algorithms, and network communications. The class
library is used by programmers, who combine it with their own code to
produce applications.
Programs written for the .NET Framework execute in a software environment
that manages the program's runtime requirements. Also part of the .NET
Framework, this runtime environment is known as the Common Language Runtime
(CLR). The CLR provides the appearance of an application virtual machine so
that programmers need not consider the capabilities of the specific CPU that
will execute the program. The CLR also provides other important services
such as security, memory management, and exception handling. The class
library and the CLR together compose the .NET Framework."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Framework
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