Microsoft .Net is an umbrella term that applies to a collection of products and technologies from Microsoft. All have in common a dependence on the Microsoft .NET Framework, a component of the Windows operating system.

Microsoft products and components that fall into the .NET category include:

• The Microsoft .NET Framework, an operating system component required by all .NET products.
• ASP.NET
• Microsoft Visual C#
• Visual Basic .NET, a programming language
• Visual Studio, a programmer's development environment.
• ADO.NET, a data access library included with the .Net framework.

See also

• Microsoft .NET Languages
• C++/CLI
• J#
• JScript .NET
• Windows PowerShell
• Common Language Runtime
• Common Language Infrastructure
• Common Intermediate Language
• Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL)
• Common Type System
• Microsoft .NET Framework
• Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure
• Mono development platform
• DotGNU
• Portable.NET
• Managed code

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