"Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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> 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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