Introduction to Visual Studio .NET
Visual Studio .NET is the tool for rapidly building enterprise-scale ASP Web applications and high performance desktop applications. Visual Studio includes component-based development tools, such as Visual C#, Visual Basic, and Visual C++, as well as a number of additional technologies to simplify team-based design, development, and deployment of your solutions. Visual Studio supports the .NET Framework, which provides a common language runtime and unified programming classes; ASP.NET uses these components to create ASP Web applications.
Overview of the .NET Framework
The .NET Framework is a new computing platform that simplifies application development in the highly distributed environment of the Internet. The .NET Framework is designed to fulfill the following objectives: * To provide a consistent object-oriented programming environment whether object code is stored and executed locally, executed locally but Internet-distributed, or executed remotely. * To provide a code-execution environment that minimizes software deployment and versioning conflicts. * To provide a code-execution environment that guarantees safe execution of code, including code created by an unknown or semi-trusted third party. * To provide a code-execution environment that eliminates the performance problems of scripted or interpreted environments. * To make the developer experience consistent across widely varying types of applications such as Windows-based applications and Web-based applications. * To build all communication on industry standards to ensure that code based on the .NET Framework can integrate with any other code.
The .NET Framework can be hosted by unmanaged components that load the common language runtime into their processes and initiate the execution of managed code,