Features of .NET , The Origin of .net Technology.

Features of .NET :

Now that we know some basics of .NET, let us see what makes .NET a wonderful platform for developing modern applications.

•        Rich Functionality out of the box .

                 NET framework provides a rich set of functionality out of the box. It contains hundreds of classes that provide variety of functionality ready to use in your applications. This means that as a developer you need not go into low level details of many operations such as file IO, network communication and so on.

•       Easy development of web applications

                   ASP.NET is a technology available on .NET platform for developing dynamic and data driven web applications. ASP.NET provides an event driven programming model (similar to Visual Basic 6 that simplify development of web pages (now called as web forms) with complex user interface. ASP.NET server controls provide advanced user interface elements (like calendar and grids) that save lot of coding from programmer’s side.

•       OOPs Support

            The advantages of Object Oriented programming are well known. .NET provides a fully object oriented environment. The philosophy of .NET is – “Object is mother of all.” Languages like Visual Basic.NET now support many of the OO features that were lacking traditionally. Even primitive types like integer and characters can be treated as objects – something not available even in OO languages like C++.

•       Multi-Language Support

           Generally enterprises have varying skill sets. For example, a company might have people with skills in Visual Basic, C++, and Java etc. It is an experience that whenever a new language or environment is invented existing skills are outdated. This naturally increases cost of training and learning curve. .NET provides something attractive in this area. It supports multiple languages. This means that if you have skills in C++, you need not throw them but just mould them to suit .NET environment. Currently four languages are available right out of the box namely – Visual Basic.NET, C# (pronounced as C-sharp), Jscript.NET and java.net.

The Origin of .net Technology:

•       Three main origin of .net Technology:

                                 1) OLE Technology

                                 2) COM Technology

                                 3)  .NET Technology

1) OLE Technology

         i. It is Stands for "Object Linking and Embedding”.

         ii. OLE is a framework developed by Microsoft.

        iii. It allows you to take objects from a document in one application and place them in another.

         iv. It is Easy inter-process Communication

         v. OLE also supports linking of document parts and It embed Documents from one applications to another applications.

2) COM Technology

1.  It is Stands for " Component Object Model”.
2.  Com is also developed by Microsoft
3.  They allows Monolithic approach leads to many problem of maintainability and testing.
4.  The Program is broken into number of independent components where each one offers a particular services.
5.  Each component can be developed and tested independently and then integrated into main system.

 3)  .NET Technology

Some Information about .net technology:

1. It is Third generation component model  Which can also develop by Microsoft Corporations.
2.  Many times it uses Metadata.
3.  It is used to develop Form-based applications, Web-based applications, and Web services.
4.  It is a virtual machine for compiling and executing programs written in different languages like C#, VB.Net etc.