.NET: Understanding and Usage

What is .NET? A platform for development, it is Microsoft’s brain-child application. It enables the developers to create Windows applications, web applications, and web services using different kinds of programming languages.  Problems related to memory management and processor-specific instructions are automatically taken care of.

.NET is a brand of Microsoft. It is the Common Language Runtime (CLR), which has various components. .NET Framework is made of an independent language. The developer can use a .NET application while using a plethora of other programming languages. The most popular languages are C# and VB.NET, but programmers have been using Python, COBOL, and more as well. The use of an intermediate language has given .Net language independence. It implies that the code is compiled not in the actual machine code but into a high-level generic language. The developer can write the code in any language but it has to be compiled in .NET and it will become IL (Intermediate language). All the languages have to eventually be translated into the intermediate languages. The developer can compile the code and the code is translated to the intermediate language and stored in an assembly.

When that assembly is implemented then CLR picks up that code and compiles it and runs the code. The developers save time in compiling the code as it is done by CPU. .NET is a very secure language. Managing memory is a major issue for the developers. If the memory is unmanaged then the program takes double the time and leads to the formation of bugs and other security issues. .NET is the only language which is secure and can help removing bugs too. The language has an inbuilt feature called Garbage collector. Garbage collector sees which objects are required for the application and it removes all other objects that are unrequired.

Some developers don’t like the Garbage collector because they are in the habit of managing memory and therefore the running of the Garbage collector acts as trouble maker instead of trouble shooter. But the fact is it is really important and plays a vital role in efficiency. Windows Forms is used for building desktop-based applications. With the help of Windows Forms the developers can manage wrapper over the native Windows API. The application can be written in one version of Windows and it can be run on any other window application with using WINDOW 98SE.