Microsoft .Net Framework Courses

The Microsoft .NET Framework is a software framework that can be installed on computers running Microsoft Windows operating systems. The Microsoft .NET Framework includes a large library of coded solutions to common programming problems and a virtual machine that manages the execution of programs written specifically for the framework. The Microsoft .NET Framework is intended to be used by most new applications created for the Windows platform.

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The Microsoft .NET Framework's Base Class Library provides a large range of features including user interface, data and data access, database connectivity, cryptography, web application development, numeric algorithms, and network communications. The Microsoft .NET Framework class library is used by programmers, who combine it with their own code to produce applications.

Programs written for the Microsoft .NET Framework execute in a software environment that manages the program's runtime requirements. Also part of the Microsoft .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 constitute the Microsoft .NET Framework.

Version 3.0 of the Microsoft .NET Framework is included with Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista. The current version of the framework can also be installed on Windows XP and the Windows Server 2003 family of operating systems. A reduced version of the Microsoft .NET Framework,
the .NET Compact Framework, is also available on Windows Mobile platforms, including smartphones. Version 4.0 of the framework was released as a public Beta on 20 May 2009.