Windows Systems Programming: Spring 2002

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.net

http://www.microsoft.com/net/ 

http://www.microsoft.com/net/defined/ 

http://www.devarticles.com/content.php?articleId=29 

• software as service
• .net framework
  • Common Language Runtime (CLR)
  • The CLR is described as the "execution engine" of .NET.  It provides the environment within which programs run.  The most important features are:
    • Conversion from a low-level assembler-style language, called Intermediate Language (IL), into code native to the platform being executed on.
    • Memory management, notably including garbage collection.
    • Checking and enforcing security restrictions on the running code.
    • Loading and executing programs, with version control and other such features.
      http://arstechnica.com/paedia/n/net/net-1.html 
  • Windows Forms (WinForms)    
  • ASP.NET
  • .NET base classes

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