.NET Introduction
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.NET is a technology platform for development and deployment of business applications using a set of technologies — .NET Framework, multiple programming languages, tools (particularly Visual Studio .NET), applications (including Microsoft Office System), and server technologies (known as Windows Server System, earlier called .NET Enterprise Servers). It is also important to understand that currently most (except SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and BizTalk Server 2004) of the enterprise servers are built on top of Windows DNA technologies, although they do typically have integration and interoperability mechanisms with the .NET Framework.
Microsoft .NET is a very significant change from Microsoft’s previous technology Windows DNA platform (COM/DCOM/ASP/VB/MFC/ATL). Announced in 2000, .NET received a strong response and created excitement in the IT community. A number of organizations started to develop (and even deploy!) applications on the new platform, even in its early beta stages. However, the platform is still evolving—evolution from the 1.0 release of the framework to an enhanced 1.1 release. Even though a lot of what .NET was about has to do with the notion of Web services–based service–oriented architecture, a key reason behind this success has been the enormous amount of prebuilt functionality (available as class libraries) that are available within the .NET Framework itself.