Chapter 18. Npgsql: The .NET Data Provider
If you've been involved in the software industry over the last few years, you've heard of Microsoft's .NET initiative. .NET is a collection of development tools and technologies that implement a portable “virtual operating system” on top of whatever operating system you happen to be running. The idea behind .NET is that you can use the development tools to build applications that run on any computer that has a copy of the .NET framework (in a fashion very similar to the Java virtual machine and Java runtime architecture). The .NET initiative was created by Microsoft and developed chiefly for Microsoft operating systems, but an open-source implementation of the .NET framework (and some of the development ...
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