1. Introduction

Objectives

In this chapter you’ll:

Image Understand the history of the Visual C# programming language and the Windows operating system.

Image Learn what cloud computing with Microsoft Azure is.

Image Review the basics of object technology.

Image Understand the parts that Windows, .NET, Visual Studio and C# play in the C# ecosystem.

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