.NET: What You Need to Know
A beautiful thing about .NET is that, from a programmer's perspective, you scarcely need to know anything about it to write programs for the .NET environment. You write a program in a high-level language, a compiler creates an executable (.EXE) file, and you run that EXE file. We show you exactly how to do that in just a few pages. Naturally, as the scope of what you want to do expands, you will need to know more, but to get started you need to know very little.
Even very simple programs, if they perform any input or output, generally require the use of the services found in library code. A large library, called the .NET Framework Class Library, comes with .NET, and you can use all of the services of this library in ...
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