Net Framework is a software framework developed by Microsoft, which has as main objectives to support and build the future generation of apps and XML Web services. The framework is compatible only with the machines that run a Microsoft Windows OS, and comes with a class library, plus a CLR (common language runtime).
The library is important because it offers more than 4500 classes with a rich functionality including: data access, XML, image generation, file upload, SMTP, and much more. For the UI, there are the ASP.NET web forms, which support a variety of server controls, business objects, and the ASP.NET Mobile Internet Toolkit - which aims mobile phones, PDAs and other 80 mobile devices, etc.
On the other hand, the CLR is considered to be "the foundation of the.Net framework", capable of providing services such as: memory and thread management, remoting and security. As a concept, the CLR is similar to a virtual machine which looks after the execution of programs.
Being a real object oriented (OOP) framework, .NET offers improved code management and a clean code structure. It also produces faster web applications using optimized compiled code, in comparison to other language, which runs as interpreted code. Also, many project managers find the partition between code and markup (between logic and design) to be very effective and to allow a more organized and efficient work inside a team.
Another big plus that the.NET framework brings is that it supports more than 25 mainstream coding languages, such as: Visual Basic.Net, C++, C#, JScript and others. In this way, the developer can choose to work on a language, and at the same time to have access to top features from another supported language.
Being developed on the Microsoft platform,.Net offers access to updated documentation, dependable customer support from Microsoft, through the MSDN service, innovative features and secured applications, thanks to the Windows built-in authentication. Meant as a propeller for dynamic web sites, web services and web applications, the.NET framework offers developers rich, easy to use and reliable web tools.
The latest version of the.NET framework, 4.0 was released on March, 2010, and comes with powerful new features, such as the 2010 version of Visual Studio and new functionalities regarding the Microsoft Ajax Library. In the same time it improves the existing services, including the output caching and session-state storage.
With the release of.NET framework 3.5 (released on November 19, 2007),.Net brought about a new advantage: the LINQ (Language Integrated Query) functionality, which permits the work with queries over collections, and over almost any type of data. For programmers, this translates into easy to write, expressive code. The most important updates or new features brought about by the 3.5 version are presented below:
Features
.Net Compact Framework Is an updated feature which allows programmers to develop content for Pocket PCs (PDAs) or smartphones. The 3.5 version extends the support for mobile applications by including: LINQ (Language Integrated Query), WCF (Windows Communication Foundation), debugging improvements, enhanced class library documentation, improved SoundPlayer by adding multiple sounds, improved logging features...etc.
CLR
The 2.0 version of the Common Language Runtime, which comes with.NET 3.5, has the following features updated: performance improvements, Garbage collection, Time Zone enhancements, JIT compiler optimizations...etc.
Networking
3.5 brings in the "peer to peer networking" which is a technology that permits more machines to share the same resources and to communicate directly with one another. Also, the Socket class has been improved to allow to be used by apps that employ asynchronous network, for an improved performance.
WPF
Windows Presentation Foundation includes enhancements in the following areas: data binding, annotations, 3D user interface elements, versioning, and more. This feature will be detailed in the following section.
WCF and WF
.NET Framework 3.5 merges the Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), in order to enable the user to create services which can easily transfer data in and out of a workflow, and can enforce application-level protocols.
Windows Forms
Windows Forms was updated to host the WPF controls and content together with the Windows Forms controls. Other new features brought about by the.NET Framework 3.5 are "Client application" services which allow Windows-based applications (including Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation apps) to access easily the ASP.NET login, roles, and profile services. (These services permit developers to authenticate users and also to retrieve user roles and application settings from a shared server.
LINQ
The Language Integrated Query is a new feature that comes with Visual Studio 2008 which adds "native data querying capability" to C# and VB.NET.
The.NET Framework 3.5 incorporates LINQ provider assemblies which enable the use of the LINQ for querying.NET Framework collections, SQL Server databases, ADO.NET Datasets, and XML documents.
Expressions Trees
This is a new feature which allows representing the language-level code in the form of data. Expression trees are used the most in the LINQ queries that target remote data sources, like a SQL database. The queries are represented as expression trees, and at their turn these representations enable query providers to verify them and translate them into a domain-specific query language.
The.Net 3.5 framework allows developers to focus on the application instead of searching for the proper tools, which both saves time, keeps the code clean and easy to understand, and also reduces costs.
The library is important because it offers more than 4500 classes with a rich functionality including: data access, XML, image generation, file upload, SMTP, and much more. For the UI, there are the ASP.NET web forms, which support a variety of server controls, business objects, and the ASP.NET Mobile Internet Toolkit - which aims mobile phones, PDAs and other 80 mobile devices, etc.
On the other hand, the CLR is considered to be "the foundation of the.Net framework", capable of providing services such as: memory and thread management, remoting and security. As a concept, the CLR is similar to a virtual machine which looks after the execution of programs.
Being a real object oriented (OOP) framework, .NET offers improved code management and a clean code structure. It also produces faster web applications using optimized compiled code, in comparison to other language, which runs as interpreted code. Also, many project managers find the partition between code and markup (between logic and design) to be very effective and to allow a more organized and efficient work inside a team.
Another big plus that the.NET framework brings is that it supports more than 25 mainstream coding languages, such as: Visual Basic.Net, C++, C#, JScript and others. In this way, the developer can choose to work on a language, and at the same time to have access to top features from another supported language.
Being developed on the Microsoft platform,.Net offers access to updated documentation, dependable customer support from Microsoft, through the MSDN service, innovative features and secured applications, thanks to the Windows built-in authentication. Meant as a propeller for dynamic web sites, web services and web applications, the.NET framework offers developers rich, easy to use and reliable web tools.
The latest version of the.NET framework, 4.0 was released on March, 2010, and comes with powerful new features, such as the 2010 version of Visual Studio and new functionalities regarding the Microsoft Ajax Library. In the same time it improves the existing services, including the output caching and session-state storage.
With the release of.NET framework 3.5 (released on November 19, 2007),.Net brought about a new advantage: the LINQ (Language Integrated Query) functionality, which permits the work with queries over collections, and over almost any type of data. For programmers, this translates into easy to write, expressive code. The most important updates or new features brought about by the 3.5 version are presented below:
Features
.Net Compact Framework Is an updated feature which allows programmers to develop content for Pocket PCs (PDAs) or smartphones. The 3.5 version extends the support for mobile applications by including: LINQ (Language Integrated Query), WCF (Windows Communication Foundation), debugging improvements, enhanced class library documentation, improved SoundPlayer by adding multiple sounds, improved logging features...etc.
CLR
The 2.0 version of the Common Language Runtime, which comes with.NET 3.5, has the following features updated: performance improvements, Garbage collection, Time Zone enhancements, JIT compiler optimizations...etc.
Networking
3.5 brings in the "peer to peer networking" which is a technology that permits more machines to share the same resources and to communicate directly with one another. Also, the Socket class has been improved to allow to be used by apps that employ asynchronous network, for an improved performance.
WPF
Windows Presentation Foundation includes enhancements in the following areas: data binding, annotations, 3D user interface elements, versioning, and more. This feature will be detailed in the following section.
WCF and WF
.NET Framework 3.5 merges the Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), in order to enable the user to create services which can easily transfer data in and out of a workflow, and can enforce application-level protocols.
Windows Forms
Windows Forms was updated to host the WPF controls and content together with the Windows Forms controls. Other new features brought about by the.NET Framework 3.5 are "Client application" services which allow Windows-based applications (including Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation apps) to access easily the ASP.NET login, roles, and profile services. (These services permit developers to authenticate users and also to retrieve user roles and application settings from a shared server.
LINQ
The Language Integrated Query is a new feature that comes with Visual Studio 2008 which adds "native data querying capability" to C# and VB.NET.
The.NET Framework 3.5 incorporates LINQ provider assemblies which enable the use of the LINQ for querying.NET Framework collections, SQL Server databases, ADO.NET Datasets, and XML documents.
Expressions Trees
This is a new feature which allows representing the language-level code in the form of data. Expression trees are used the most in the LINQ queries that target remote data sources, like a SQL database. The queries are represented as expression trees, and at their turn these representations enable query providers to verify them and translate them into a domain-specific query language.
The.Net 3.5 framework allows developers to focus on the application instead of searching for the proper tools, which both saves time, keeps the code clean and easy to understand, and also reduces costs.
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