. NET is an open-source platform for building desktop, web, and mobile applications that can run natively on any operating system. The . NET system includes tools, libraries, and languages that support modern, scalable, and high-performance software development. .NET is a free, cross-platform, open source developer platform for building many different types of applications. .NET, you can use multiple languages, editors, and libraries to build for web, mobile, desktop, games, IoT, and more.
Formally, .NET is “an open source developer platform, created by Microsoft, for building many different types of applications. You can write .NET apps in C#, F#, Visual C++, or Visual Basic.” Informally, .NET is the tool that lets you build and run C# programs (we’ll avoid F#, Visual C++, Visual Basic for now). When you download .NET, you’re really downloading a bunch of programs that:
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- Provide utilities for building software, like tools for printing text to the screen and finding the current time
- Define a set of data types that make it easier for you to store information in your programs, like text, numbers, and dates
- .NET Framework is the original version of .NET that only runs on Windows computers.