.NET TRICKS

• .NET fundamentally changes the way applications execute under
the Windows Operating System.
• With .NET Microsoft is, in effect, abandoning its traditional
stance, one which favors compiled components, and is embracing
interpreted technology (similar, in many ways, to the Java
paradigm).
• .NET brings about significant changes to both C++ and Visual
Basic, and introduces a new language called C# (pronounced
“C sharp”).
• .NET is built from the ground up with the Internet in mind, embracing
open Internet standards such as XML and HTTP. XML
is also used throughout the framework as both a messaging instrument
and for configuration files.