What is .net? what are the types?

Microsoft .NET framework has slowly taken over the world with its unique offerings with multiple languages coding possibilities and wide range of porting possibilities. DotNet application development is spread up from legacy desktop applications to enterprise & consumer web applications and now extending to other windows based devices like phones and handhelds.
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To help create languages for the .NET Framework, Microsoft created the Common Language Infrastructure specification (CLI). The CLI describes the features that each language must provide in order to use the .NET Framework and comm6n language runtime and to interoperate with components written in other languages. If a language implements the necessary functionality, it is said to be .NET-compliant.

Every .NET-compliant language supports the same data types, uses the same .NET Framework classes, compiles to the same MSIL, and uses a single common language runtime to manage execution. Because of this, every .NET-compliant language is a first-class Microsoft .NET citizen.-Developers are free to choose the best language for a particular component without losing any of the power and freedom of the platform. In addition, components written in one language can easily interoperate with components written in another language. For example, you can write a class in C# that inherits from a base class written in Visual Basic.
The .NET Framework was developed so that it could support a theoretically infinite number of development languages. Currently, more than 20 development languages work with the .NET Framework. C# is the programming language specifically designed for the .NET platform, but C++ and Visual Basic have also been upgraded to fully support the .NET framework. The following are the commonly used languages provided by the Microsoft:
• VC++
• VB.NET
.C#
• J#
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Hi,
.net is a platform which is used for creating standalone and web application. It is Microsoft technology and competitor of Java. .net is not a language but a framework and supports many languages. It supports around 37 languages. But mostly CSharp and vb.net is used for developing the application. Microsoft Visual Studio is used for developing .net applications.
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