The .NET Framework Class Library
All programming languages contain a library of functions and/or classes that provide services to programmers developing software using that language. Examples of these services include string and memory manipulation, file and console Input/Output (I/O), mathematics, date and time manipulation, currency, collections, graphical user interface (GUI), threading, and networking. The need for these libraries can be expressed in one word: reuse. If programmers using a particular language do not have a library of commonly used routines to draw from, they would have to write their own code to implement all of the services, dramatically increasing the cost of developing applications using that language. The .NET Framework ...
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