.NET is a developer platform developed by Microsoft and made up of tools, programming languages, and libraries for building many different types of applications. The first version of the .Net framework was 1.0 which came in the year 2002. the framework has come a long way since then, and the current version is 4.7.1. In easy words, it is a virtual machine for compiling and executing programs written in different languages like C#, VB.Net, etc. The framework provides language interoperability across several programming languages – each language can use code written in other languages. This framework contains a large number of class libraries known as Framework Class Library (FCL). The software programs written in .NET are executed in the execution environment, which is called CLR (Common Language Runtime). These are the core and essential parts of the .NET framework. .NET Framework supports more than 60 programming languages in which 11 programming languages are designed and ...