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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?
Off the top of my head... C#, F#, some Java derivative (J#?), and
there's a variant of VB for it.
>> (It wasn't easy to find this information, mind you...)
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> "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."
That seems slightly clearer than last time I looked. Last time I
researched this matter, I found endless pages telling me how awesome
.NET is and why I should immediately use it, but I couldn't find
anything (from Microsoft or Wikipedia) that explains precisely what it *is*.
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