INTRODUCTION TO .NET

.NET  is a technology of Microsoft which is used to develop different kinds of application oriented software. It is not an operating system but a technology which supports more than 70 languages in current scenarios to develop application oriented software, this is done by its language independent framework( redirected from Next Generation Windows Service).
.Net  is similar to java as because it is the intermediate byte code language
Applications  developed using .Net are of  three types 1)Console Application 2) Web application 3) Windows application
Terms related to .Net1)CLR-  Common Language Run Time2)JIT-   Just in time3)BCL- Base Class Library4) SECURITY5)CLS  -  Common Language Specification6) CTS - Common Type System
Visual Studio .net- it is a programming tool or editor through which we develop .Net application program.