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What is .NET Anyway?
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By: Prodigal|Son <amlouden@insightbb.com>


Here's the burning question that every one has been wondering, what exactly is
microsoft's .NET anyway?  well, it delivers function to your computer as
services to phase out programs that do the same things as .NET.  it goes out to
the internet and grabs the files and updates that the user asks for, but the
user has no idea where the data is. one of the features of .NET is the abilty
for a CLR (common language runtime) which will be able to excute any programs
written in any language, unlike microsoft's previous runtime environment, visual
basic runtime, which will only run visual basic programs.  the CLR, and one
other tier of the .NET framework, is not a part of the visual studeo.NET.  these
are provided separately of the .NET framework.  this is just a brief explanation
of what .NET and it can get very verbose and i don't feel like going into all
the technical stuff :).

DO NOT STEAL MY TEXT NURGLE

- Prodigal|Son <amlouden@insightbb.com>