Summary

The .NET Framework is a broad and deep new foundation for application development. At its core is a runtime that provides services that were previously found in compiler libraries. This runtime eliminates the application’s need to possess knowledge of the underlying operating system and hardware, while providing performance on par with natively compiled code.

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